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FDA Bans Trans Fat
An anonymous reader writes: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has finally come to a conclusion about artificial trans fat: it must be removed from the U.S. food supply over the next three years. According to their final determination (PDF), there's no longer a scientific consensus that partially hydrogenated oils are safe to consume. Trans fat must be gone from food in the U.S. by June, 2018, unless a petitioner is granted specific approval by the FDA to continue using it. "Many baked goods such as pie crusts and biscuits as well as canned frosting still use partially hydrogenated oils because they help baked goods maintain their flakiness and frostings be spreadable. As for frying, palm oil is expected to be a go-to alternative, while modified soybean oil may catch on as well." The food industry is expected to spend $6.2 billion over the next two decades to formulate replacements, but the money saved from health benefits is expected to be more than 20 times higher.
Then you should also sign a card saying you are not entitled ...
ObamaCare / Universal Health Care and Socialism in general tells me I am entitled, regardless of how I eat. Otherwise, we'd ban all the crap food found in our fast food and supermarkets. Have you seen the ingredients on a Twinkie? On the other hand, socialism is trying to ban large sodas and sodium (salt) in NYC so there is that to consider.
Fuck freedom, SAFETY FOR ALL!
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
FDA has decided a lot of things, many of which turned out not to be true. According to the FDA, Walnuts are a drug (yes it is true).
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
I see you still haven't abandoned the "negative effects of socialism aren't really socialism" response to legitimate criticisms of a bad socio-economic policy.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson
Well, if you believe in the witchcraft of personal anecdotes, rather than a more scientific approach of peer review that's great. I'll buy you a new caldron for your birthday.
a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
We're going with Political Theory of Social Organization, and the creation of laws to force people into collective thinking/actions (Community), including "exchange" (Not allow to buy a 64OZ Cola!).
I know the definition. The problem is, you don't like the application of the definition to the cases I suggested. In this case, regulating the exchange for 64 OZ colas and Sodium usage in restaurants.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
Freedumb.
The guy who said the election was rigged won the presidency with the second-most votes.
And without FDA approval you cannot sell the resulting food in a store.
I don't consent to people telling my stores what they can and cannot sell me.
Secession is the right of all sentient beings.
... And yet they're not required.
So if I took the trans fats away you would not lose your fucking fortune cookies. Would you, motherfucker? :)
No you would not.
Case closed. *slaps gavel down*
Next issue.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
None of us want to live in Somalia
BINGO! I HAVE BINGO HERE! I love how as soon as anyone mentions government not ruling with an iron fist, collectivists insist that you should move to / want to live in Somalia with utter chaos. So typical and predictable.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." ~Thomas Jefferson