LAist: Trans Fat, Soon to be Banned in California

BingosDingo

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:38:22 -0800

I'm not sure this was the smartest legislative move. Require restaurants to post signs stating that they use trans-fats in food preparation and let the people decide if they'll eat there or not.

Marshall

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 06:08:20 -0800

This is beyond stupid.

wrinkledknee

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:30:39 -0800

The smoking analogy isn't appropriate for trans-fat. Let's pretend it is-- there were two types of cigars. The experience of smoking both cigars is approximately the same; however, one type of cigar has a correlation with cancer. It turns out that the cancer-coupled cigars are cheaper to manufacture and last longer on the shelf; additionally, the cigar producers can easily hide which type of cigar is being sold. Due to the economic benefits and despite the health problems (which they don't have to pay for), the companies choose to produce cigars that are correlated with cancer. Until a few years ago, this was the predicament with trans-fat.

Johnny

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:35:10 -0800

Smoking cigars is linked to cancer. We need to ban that. Want to sign that bill Arnold?

grendel20

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:48:43 -0800

Big government, coming straight at cha!