How many people seeing the news about this understand that the evil-sounding "trans fats" means Crisco?
And that banning it doesn't necessarily force restaurants to stop using saturated fats? Instead, they may go back to cooking with lard, duck fat, palm oil, etc.
Hmm... that's the bright side -- except that the next move of the food nannies will be to try to ban all saturated fats. After all, the reason foodservice moved from using animal fats to hydrogenated vegetable fats in the first place was because of the tirades of self-appointed food police, like Phil Sokolov's campaign against McDonald's in the early '90s, when he targeted them for serving french fries cooked in beef tallow.
There are two agendas going on here: the "I know what's good for you" health police and the "animals are more important than people" PETA crowd. If they keep winning converts among those who control public policy in Chicago, the onetime hog butcher to the world may become the first city to mandate fruitarianism.
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LAZ on June 30th, 2006, 2:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.