What a Bunch of Hicks!
At least we can say New York did it before our own city council could get off their asses:
The Board of Health voted Tuesday to make New York the nation's first city to ban artery-clogging artificial trans fats at restaurants - from the corner pizzeria to high-end bakeries.
The board, which passed the ban unanimously, did give restaurants a slight break by relaxing what had been considered a tight deadline for compliance. Restaurants will be barred from using most frying oils containing artificial trans fats by July and will have to eliminate the artificial trans fats from all of their foods by July 2008.
Banning food. In America. Where are the shrieks of "Think of the children!"? If people should be healthier, educate them to take care of themselves. Stop the spread of the nanny state! Next thing you know they'll be banning guns, making seatbelts mandatory, enacting helmet laws, ... oh, wait a minute.
Thanks to AceofSpades for the story.
Thanks to AceofSpades for the story.
posted by SCC at 12:03 AM
22 Comments:
SCC, some Alderman are objecting to your use of FONT 8 on this blog. There's a meeting tomorrow about you, @ City Hall!!!! DAMN YOU
Pssssst!
Anybody want to score some superb foie gras with truffles?
I'll be parked in my silver Bentley Continental GT outside the Wiener's Circle on Clark St. between midnight and three on weekends. Cash only. All sales final.
What's next? Will they ban alcohol? "No beer for you - it's not good for you! Put down the Jack & Coke before it kills you!"
Very rarely do I drink, I don't smoke and I try to eat as healthy as possible, but WTF? When the government starts intruding on your private life and telling you what you can and can't do, that's beyond bullshit.
As my mom used to say, "Give 'em an inch, they'll take a mile."
Welcome to America
Let them ban alcohol again look what happen last time it might be good to go back to the good old days haha
I am normally not for big government making choices like this for us.
Education is a good idea but most people already know trans fats are bad. They continue to eat them anyway.
If you add up the dollar amount John Q Taxpayer pays in healthcare for uninsured Chicago citizens (the majority of citizens) due to obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetis, hypertension etc...all which have a direct link to trans fats, you may think twice.
They will continue to shovel big macs, fries, grape pop and fire cheetos into their fat faces no matter what, they don't care if it is bad for them.
I, however, care that I have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars in healthcare for their ignorant asses!
Instead of banning trans fats, stop paying medicals bills from trans fat based problems. If you're a fat ass, work out.......oh right, work...what's that? I'd rather see a ban on Link cards, especially when I'm cutting a report for some broad who was just on her casino when babydaddy jumped on her and her only ID is Link.........
Get rid of Link have the poor shop at goverment stores with healthy food choices, not flaming hot cheetos
keep the mc-rib all year round. how come its for a limited time?
same goes for the italian chicken at bk. way too good for a limited time menu item..
what a joke. you should be able to sell let alone eat what you want. it's all about a persons particular preference.
i do agree about making the cafeteria's in schools more healthy including the snack and pop machines. if the students don't like it, then brown bag it.
wow. what a police presence in 08 last night from those tru guys. glad to see you out there with us. i think it was a combo of tru and the cold that made it a crazy cricket cherpn' night.
Trans fats interfere with my use and consumption of alcohol and cigarettes. I'm all for the ban.
i swear, if they do anything to my french fries i will unleash a fury of ninja monkeys like this city has never seen. monkey, warm up the arghmobile.
Oh no, whats next, baning trans fat at Jimmys hot dog stand at Grand and Pulaski? I know coppers that were able to pay their kids tuition by eating there everyday. One good things about eating at Jimmy's, it sure beats the dry heaves.
What a bunch of HICKS?
For a minute I thought you were talking about those of us who live in Mt. Greenwood again.
Just to set the record strait we are not HICKS, We are HILLBILLIES!
If you give up one thing to the government they'll be back for more..........if you think that you will personally see any savings or increases to your personal finances because the government is trying to get rid of trans fat you haven't moved forward since the ameba. The government federal or local can't even provide you safety from illegal aliens who drain resources that effects you directly, if all you can do is sit around on your self righteous buttocks and worry about a funky ass big mac and fries, and count money that you'll never see........you got way to much time on your hand. I guess that ban on goose liver brought tears to your eyes as you render yourself a standing ovation in front of a full length mirror.
Man, the liberals!!! Pretty soon you won't be able to smoke in the emergency room anymore.......
Here s a novel idea: how 'bout those fat-assed, money grubbing, do nothing but come up with this shit on our dime, useless fucks ban something decent, like, oh, lets say; corruption, hiring your buddy/relatives who is a do nothing, wasting OUR money on bullshit. Now that would be something!
Lets's see now: Jesse Jerkoff, the Holy Hoodo, is telling us what words are no longer permissable.
Ald. oily Ed Burke is telling us what foods are no longer permissable.
Soon Ron Huberman will tell us what sex is no longer permissable.
How is this any different than mandatory seat belt use? Where is it in the Constitution that government can legislate what is "good for me" in THEIR opinion?
fat johnies rocks
Trans fats have been shown to increase heart disease over 50 percent among peoples of various ages and weights.(Harvard studies of 160,000 people)
Yet, no one can show me an independent study of the same caliber that links cigarettes directly to heart disease
yet I'm treated as a criminal every time I light up.
(if someone in blog land can tell me of a study done, let me now please)
Anybone who is still dumb enough to be smoking, endangering not only his/her own health, that of their kids, familes and co workers has a real IQ problem.
the seat belt law is stupid. it has "no" bearing on anybody else on the road. they keep harpn about "seat belts save lives" bah humbug. Let each person decide on their own. how about worrying about the dope dealers, robbers, shooters and gang bangers. get your priorities straight.
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