Bite the Big Apple

NEW YORK (AP) - 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.

Small children, the mentally incompetent, and residents of New York city are incapable of deciding for themselves what to put in their mouths.

Posted on December 6th, 2006 by pwyll
Filed under: nanny state

2 Responses to “Bite the Big Apple”

  1. cardcarryinglibertarian, on December 6th, 2006 at 10:16 pm Said:

    I want my government to make more and more of my everyday choices for me. I feel they know what’s best for me, and I can certainly trust them. Right?

  2. Paco Malo, on December 7th, 2006 at 7:14 am Said:

    I just spent two days making Spanish Bean Soup from scratch. There is so much trans fat in that soup I will be dead by dusk. Bye.

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