Here is One More Reason Not to Go to NYC
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Paulie B
on December 5, 2006 at 11:30 pm
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NEW YORK - New York on Tuesday became the first city in the nation to ban artery-clogging trans fats at restaurants, leading the charge to limit consumption of an ingredient linked to heart disease and used in everything from french fries to pizza dough to pancake mix.
In a city where eating out is a major form of activity — either for fun or out of hectic necessity — many New Yorkers were all for the ban, saying that health concerns were more important than fears of Big Brother supervising their stomachs.
I grew up in New York State, yet have only been to “The City” one time, for one day. I really didn’t care for it. If this new law is the mindset that controls the population of NYC, then you can count on me staying away at all costs.
We can have logical debates over the validity of a public smoking ban, blood alcohol content while driving, and illegal drug use. All of those can very directly affect people other than the user. However, the few effects of trans fats on people other than the consumer are limited to things such as seeing people in outfits that are less than appealing on a large frame, less room in elevators and public transportation, and the like.
Toni Lewis, catching a quick dinner at McDonalds before her child’s piano lesson on the eve of the vote, acknowledged that yes, it might be going too far for the city to tell people what they can and can’t put into their stomachs. But, she added: “I welcome the intrusion.”
“This is New York,” she said. “People eat out a lot. We don’t have a choice. We need someone to make it a healthier proposition.”
Hello, Moron! You did have a choice (and I find it funny that you chose McDonalds - what you say you are against). Now, you don’t. If you are so worried about “health,” then why go to a fast food restaurant? If I wanted to eat a high quality piece of beef, I would go to a steak house, not McD’s.
Some industry representatives were not happy. E. Charles Hunt, executive vice president of the New York State Restaurant Association, said the city had overstepped its authority by ordering restaurants to abandon an ingredient permitted by the FDA.
“This is a legal product,” he said. “They’re headed down a slippery slope here.”
No kidding. But the following takes the cake:
It’s the danger a bad diet poses to children that has experts the most worried. It’s also what worries Kathy Ramirez, a 26-year-old New York mother who takes her toddler to McDonalds every week. She approves of the ban and a related measure passed Tuesday, requiring restaurants that already disclose calorie counts — mostly chain restaurants — to post them right on the menu.
“It’s hurting us, all this fat, but the kids really like it,” said Ramirez, pointing to 3-year-old Amber, who’d just finished her dinner. “It would be better to know what we’re getting.”
Brilliant, Kathy. You are letting a three year old run your family’s eating habits.
And then the AP writer goes on to quote a Frog that says that “[his] mother never even gave [him] a French fry” when he lived in France. Dude. This is America. If you wanted France, then start swimming east.
Foolishness.
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