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huh.
well transfats aren't regular fats: they are jsut one of the many industrial food processing byproducts that are effectively dumped on american consumers to the self-evident detriment of their health. in the same league as high-frustose corn syrup. there is a problem with the subordination of food to the requirements of highly centralized capitalism...
so in principle i would have no problem with this kind of law.
but it is unfortunate that it follows the replication of the chicago foie gras thing, which does make it all seem stupid.
there is an interesting and growing rejection of the mainstream food system which is linked to a rejection of the american style of capitalist agricultural production--and its state correlates in subsidies that enable the systematic dumping of nutirionally worthless corn types on all of us. whether this shift--which i think of as a kind of revolt--is best left to consumer movements is a separate question that i dont really have a position on yet--i am still thinking about it, gathering information, etc...
but this movement--if you want to call it that--cuts to the heart of american capitalism. personally, i think that is a good thing and am inclined to support anything that extends the reach of it because i think that the present system is totally unsustainable.
but i deploy my position through choices to do with what i eat, what kind of information i want about what i eat, etc..
restaurants seem to me a slightly different matter, though: if you are eating at home and you make choices about food based on criteria you think important, then fine--but if you are going out, you usually have less information to go on concerning what you are eating.
and if there is information--and plenty of it--that transfats are detrimental to general well-being and that they are among a cluster of nutritionally worthless industrial byproducts that are at the core of problems like obesity, etc., then their use in restos constitutes something of a violation of public health standards, doesn't it?
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spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
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