Ok, I still dont see what the big deal is. This product provides absolutely nothing to you, not even pleasure as some people get from cigarettes. It does not make you feel any different like alcohol does and it does not change the taste of your food. You basically dont care that it is trans fat you just dont want the government to stop it?
It provides nothing for me but for someone that enjoys eating fast food it provides them with cheaper foods. It does not matter what kind of pleasure one derives from it because pleasure is a completely 100% subjective ideal. If trans fats got you high you'd feel different about this?
No I don't care that it's trans fats, I care that the government is making decisions for me it has no authority over.
I'm illustrating a point which you keep interpreting literally, dufus
And I'm illustrating a point you keep missing. If people didn't want trans fats in their foods they wouldn't buy it. They know it's there, they know it's bad for them. They keep buying it. It's the same reason people keep shopping at WalMart and Sam's Club despite all the bitching about the Chinese economy and how they treat their workers. People don't give a damn about goods being made in China and the way WalMart workers are treated, they care more about saving three cents on toilet paper.
In a free market people vote with their wallets. The almighty dollar is what drives the marketplace and since trans fats are not inherently deadly there is no reason the government should step in. Again, you cannot demand that trans fats be banned because they're unhealthy
while you gladly partake in something equally if not more unhealthy.
Oh yeah and why I said conspiracy theory earlier is as you clearly pointed out that this is just the first step in their mass plan to steal our rights to eat red meat, haha. That sir is a conspiracy theory!
No, it's not a conspiracy theory. The simple fact is that setting these type of precedents opens the door for things like that to happen. I'm not suggesting this is some grand scheme, I just don't want the option available to the government in the first place.
Kinda like... omg the spinach has e.Coli... stop eating it
The FDA's job is to stop that kind of stuff from getting to market in the first place. They failed. Their job is
not to keep us from being fat.
It's cheap. The alternative is not as cheap. My convenience food is now going to cost more.
I don't know if this is accurate since there is no source listed but if true it shows a clear benefit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_fat
Because partial hydrogenation of plant oils can replace animal fats, the resulting products can be consumed (barring other ingredient and preparation violations) by adherents to Kashrut (kosher) and Halal, as well as by adherents to vegetarianism in Buddhism, ahimsa in Jainism and Hinduism, veganism, and other forms of vegetarianism.