Any thoughts on the new rules on transfats at NY eateries?
Will this kill the donut business?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061205/ts_nm/restaurants_transfat_dc
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7 Comments:
I don't know about the donut business, but the calorie reporting rule, which exempts everyone except those who already provide this information (and provides them with an incentive to stop doing so) is pusillanimous and preposterous. In other words, real political cheaps--t.
gustoct at 2:35PM on 12/05/06
This annoys me to no end. I appreciate the desire to keep people healthy, but by banning this kind of food, NY is showing itself succeptible to the gusts of dietetic winds. If people don't want to eat transfats, they won't eat certain foods, certain dishes and at certain restaurants.
I wrote about this before on my site (http://www.riddlemethisjishman.com/?p=700), but this just further servers to anger me because of the sheer idiocy of controlling what people eat and where they go to spend their money.
jishman at 5:52PM on 12/05/06
Companies are going to be taking a hard look at their bottom lines after this. Trans Fats keep down costs, now these guys are going to have to make up that loss somewhere else. Something has to give. Kinda scary that the Government needs to be involved, human beings would eat themselves into an early extinction. Gee thanks Bloomberg and Company. Now everyone go eat some fried foods for the health conscience mayor.
dp9ny at 7:08PM on 12/05/06
The key is teaching people balance, exercise, and not over doing anything... banning stuff doesn't work!
lshannon at 9:18PM on 12/05/06
I don't really care.
Myszka at 10:46PM on 12/05/06
Donuts with no fat? Fries not loaded with calories? Aw come on now Aunty Em the tin man and I didn't lke the fries after McDonald's stop coating them wth beef tallow. Are they going to ban cheese wiz? Luckily I live in a place where no one cares about fat and the politics are still about land use and not nutrition. Our locals yocals aren't educated enough to delve into anything close to that for decades if ever.
I agree with earlier posters if you want to clog your arteries it i your business. They are till going to sell thousands of foods in your local grocery store that have trans fats, hidden ones.
This is just like prohibition, it is silly and eventually it will not be big brother's job to watch what you eat.
JerzeeTomato at 5:16AM on 12/06/06
I think there is some merit to it- for the most part, it seems the use of trans-fats is unnecessary when there is a healthier substitution available. katz's deli banned trans-fats over a year ago and people have not stopped going (granted they have the funds to pay for the spendier oils). when asked on NPR if this meant we couldn't call ny delis and diners "greasy spoons" anymore, the owner of katz's said "if you put the food in a brown bag, you can see the grease is still all there".
Stacy at 9:21AM on 12/06/06