BREAKING: FDA to ban trans-fats

[novasteve]

BBC News - US moves to ban trans fats in foods

But you are still free to have HIV and fuck dudes up the ass

 

[Slacker]

Quote: "While consumption of potentially harmful artificial trans fat has declined over the last two decades in the United States, current intake remains a significant public health concern," ...

Once again I have to ask WHY? Why does the government feel it needs to ban something? Look at the first half of that quote. An informed public and the free market are working yet the government still wants to ban trans fats. By the logic they use (trans fats ..."remain an area of significant public health concern") then why don't they ban cigarettes? Our government is ban happy.

 

[BDBoop]

Why is the title 'libs want.' Do they run the FDA?

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/health/fda-trans-fats.html?_r=0

“That will make it a challenge, to be honest,” said Michael R. Taylor, deputy commissioner for foods at the F.D.A.

Dr. Margaret A. Hamburg, the agency’s commissioner, said the rules could prevent 20,000 heart attacks and 7,000 deaths from heart disease each year.

The move concluded three decades of battles by public health advocates against artificial trans fats, which occur when liquid oil is treated with hydrogen gas and made solid. The long-lasting fats became popular in frying and baking and in household items like margarine, and were cheaper than animal fat, like butter.

But over the years, scientific evidence has shown they are worse than any other fat for health because they raise the levels of so-called bad cholesterol and can lower the levels of good cholesterol. In 2006, an F.D.A. rule went into effect requiring that artificial trans fats be listed on food labels, a shift that prompted many large producers to eliminate them. A year earlier, New York City told restaurants to stop using artificial trans fats in cooking. Many major chains like McDonalds, found substitutes, and eliminated trans fats.

 

[novasteve]

They are faggots who know better than you, this must be banned

 

[Borillar]

You sure seem to have an obsession with gay sex. You tie it to completely unrelated things and events. WTF does it have to do with trans-fats and the FDA? Do you worry that there is a gay person behind every corner waiting to catch you unaware so he can fuck you in the ass?

 

[Little-Acorn]

You, the American citizen, have just been ruled incapable of making the right decisions on what to cook and what to eat.

The government will now make those decisions for you. For your own good.

Why the government is more qualified than you are, has not been explained.

As the article describes, if there's something you want to put in your food, you'll have to petition the government for permission. The article notes that such petition will likely not be approved.

Move along.

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FDA to ban artery-clogging trans fats - Boston News, Weather, Sports | FOX 25 | MyFoxBoston

FDA to ban artery-clogging trans fats

Posted: Nov 07, 2013 9:45 AM PST
Updated: Nov 07, 2013 9:48 AM PST

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S., Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday it will require the food industry to gradually phase out artificial trans fats, saying they are a threat to Americans' health. Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said the move could prevent 20,000 heart attacks and 7,000 deaths each year.

Hamburg said that while the amount of trans fats in the country's diet has declined dramatically in the last decade, they "remain an area of significant public health concern." The trans fats have long been criticized by nutritionists, and New York City and other local governments have banned them.

Though they have been removed from many items, the fats are still found in processed foods, including in some microwave popcorns and frozen pizzas, refrigerated doughs, cookies, biscuits and ready-to-use frostings. They are also sometimes used by restaurants that use the fats for frying. Many larger chains have phased them out, but smaller restaurants may still get food containing trans fats from suppliers.

To phase them out, the FDA said it had made a preliminary determination that trans fats no longer fall in the agency's "generally recognized as safe" category, which is reserved for thousands of additives that manufacturers can add to foods without FDA review. Once trans fats are off the list, anyone who wants to use them would have to petition the agency for a regulation allowing it, and that would likely not be approved.


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[LordBrownTrout]

They love us so much.

 

[Black_Label]

Good. Trans fats are like glue in your arteries.

 

[bendog]

There goes the republic ... right down the old shittter.

 

[MikeK]

It's a good idea. That stuff is poison and should not be freely available in foods.

It makes no sense for trans-fat to be readily available for consumption while marijuana, which is totally benign, is banned.

 

[martybegan]

Good. Trans fats are like glue in your arteries.

Then convince people not to buy products with them, dont use the federal government to decide people are not smart enough to take care of themselves.

I swear all progressive nanny-statists think we are all a bunch of fucking lemmings.

 

[TakeAStepBack]

The FDA has been making these decisions for decades about what is best for you. Besides, it was a republican that create the FDA. Conseravtives always find themselves guilty of starting this shit and then blaming LOLberals when they "didn't think that these things would be used this way" after the fact.

 

[Black_Label]

dont use the federal government to decide people are not smart enough to take care of themselves.

They're not, that's why all these fat ass right wingers are driving insurance rates through the roof. If they choose not to have medical insurance and will not seek treatment for their conditions, so be it. But there is no reason why everyone has to pay for these dumbasses poor decisions.

 

[Mustang]

Good. Trans fats are like glue in your arteries.

Then convince people not to buy products with them, dont use the federal government to decide people are not smart enough to take care of themselves.

I swear all progressive nanny-statists think we are all a bunch of fucking lemmings.

Perhaps you could lead the campaign to bring back lead paint.

 

[novasteve]

I meant faggot as in annoying liberal, not homosexual

 

[martybegan]

Good. Trans fats are like glue in your arteries.

Then convince people not to buy products with them, dont use the federal government to decide people are not smart enough to take care of themselves.

I swear all progressive nanny-statists think we are all a bunch of fucking lemmings.

Perhaps you could lead the campaign to bring back lead paint.

I was smart enough when i was 4 not to eat the paint chips, unlike some posters here currently.

 

[martybegan]

dont use the federal government to decide people are not smart enough to take care of themselves.

They're not, that's why all these fat ass right wingers are driving insurance rates through the roof. If they choose not to have medical insurance and will not seek treatment for their conditions, so be it. But there is no reason why everyone has to pay for these dumbasses poor decisions.

So by your logic if you decide to go skiing, or any other high risk activity, I shouldnt have to cover your insurance costs? After all, I have never skiied once in my life..

 

[The Rabbi]

The regulatory agencies are simply out of control. If someone really thinks this "might save 2000 heart attacks a year" they are full of shit or totally deluded.

 

[Political Junky]

Wise move.

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

It's a good idea. That stuff is poison and should not be freely available in foods.

It makes no sense for trans-fat to be readily available for consumption while marijuana, which is totally benign, is banned.

The solution to prohibition is not more prohibition.