Editorial Bear

NYC health board votes to ban trans fats
By SARA KUGLER, Associated Press Writer 9 minutes ago

NEW YORK - The Board of Health voted Tuesday to make New York the first city in the nation to ban artificial trans fats at restaurants — from the corner pizzeria to high-end bakeries.

The board, which passed the ban by a unanimous vote, did give restaurants a slight break by relaxing what had been considered a tight deadline for compliance. Restaurants will be barred from using most frying oils containing artificial trans fats by July 1, and will have to eliminate the artificial trans fats from all of its foods by July 1, 2008.

For God's sake! If I want to eat fried chicken, I have a God given, constitutionally protected right to! First you ban smoking - I don't even smoke, but it pissed me off - and now you're banning delicious trans fat?

Okay, so it's bad for you... But you use it in fried chicken! And cookies! And a ton of other stuff!

Instead of banning everything, it's about time America AND the world faced up to people and said: You! Fatties! You're the ones who are responsible for your obesity. If you don't want to get fat, don't eat so much!

Okay, so some people have glandular problems... Additictive personalities. There are exceptions - but for the most part people have free choice in what they eat. It's a slippery slope when you start to ban food that's bad for people. What's next? Banning alcohol?

Seriously - I will launch a one man revolution if they try to pull that crap. Has NOBODY learnt anything from Prohibition?