American food is about to get a lot healthier

[Dylan]

[exploited]

And even if it were, so what? One can be banned and enforced reasonably, the other cannot.

[The Comrade]

[Professor]

Yeah, I don't think that you can remove natural trans fats from things like beef (assuming it's in there - I'm not a nutritionist) and still have "beef" left over. But, you can remove artificial trans fats from pizza, replace with something else, and still have pizza.

To me, if there has to be a line, that's it. If you can ban a harmful substance and still have a comparable end result, without undue burden upon the preparer, then ban it. If such a ban results in a measurably different end product, or places undue burden upon the preparer, then there shouldn't be a ban.

[Medius]

Managing what is safe in food is sort of the purpose of the FDA. I certainly don't agree with everything they do, there are a lot of questionable and political things, but in general, not a bad thing.

This doesn't trip my tyranny meter. As Professor said it, miles of difference between this and banning sodas.

[eynon81]

[Spider]

[dontworrybehappy]

[Dylan]

Interesting. I haven't read that. Assuming you are correct, I guess you're right. We should ban milk and beef to be logically consistent with minimizing trans fats artificially inserted into other foods.

[Spider]