American food is about to get a lot healthier

[dontworrybehappy]

How about coffee creamers? Frostings? The list goes on and on.

[dontworrybehappy]

Frozen pizza, vegetable shortening, crackers, cakes......

[The Comrade]

[exploited]

Oh my goodness, the horror! Your cakes will forever crumble, your frosting will be dry and hard, your culinary world will suffocate under government ineptitude, your kids will grow up with healthy parents and a government-imposed regime of natural food. Woe! Woooooooooeeeeeee!!!

[The Comrade]

[exploited]

Life, liberty and the pursuit of hydrogenated oil. These are the principles of freedom.

[The Comrade]

if i can't cook exclusively with crisco, my life has no meaning.

[Hyperion]

Donuts didn't exist before synthetic, lab-produced trans fats?

All fats are 'oily.' Fats are oils. Saturated fat lasts longer because it has stronger bonds. You can use cis-fat for that, if you want. It's at least natural.

I rarely think a substance that people want should be banned. I support decriminalizing even hard drugs, but I think that consumer health should still be a priority - which is why I think tobacco isn't really that big of a deal, but all those additives they put in cigs should be forbidden.

[dontworrybehappy]

Dude, it's the FDA themselves saying these foods use trans fat as a critical ingredient. It's not me.

[The Comrade]

it's a critical ingredient because the self-regulated food industry says it's a critical ingredient. you can make all of the things you brought up without hydrogenated oils. the question is can you make them shitty and dirt cheap. heaven forbid your coffee creamer, which is 2/3 corn syrup anyways, goes up a few cents to cover a trans fat replacement.

you obviously don't know a thing about nutrition or cooking if you're relying on the FDA to tell you what a critical component for frosting or a doughnut is.