FDA moves to ban trans fats from food, citing health concerns.

[Dresta]

These morons really need to get their own lives and stop caring so much what other people put into their own bodies.

You can't keep infantalizing people and expect democracy to function even close to adequately.

[JEFFERSON MONEY]

Retarded
Baking industry relies on hydrogenation

[gigantes]

These morons really need to get their own lives and stop caring so much what other people put into their own bodies.

You can't keep infantalizing people and expect democracy to function even close to adequately.

it's not like it's the same group responsible for both things, dresta.

besides, if people really ARE infants, then they obviously need parenting.

furthermore, poor diet is costing the nation big bucks, and the problem's only getting worse. so it's a financial issue... a huge one.

[Dresta]

it's not like it's the same group responsible for both things, dresta.

besides, if people really ARE infants, then they obviously need parenting.

furthermore, poor diet is costing the nation big bucks, and the problem's only getting worse. so it's a financial issue... a huge one.

Old people cost the nation big bucks. I guess we should start culling people at 70 then.

Yes, actual infants do need parenting, you won't catch me arguing with you there. But if you're just referring to people that are inferior and using that to justify curtailing the rights of everyone else, then you need to rethink whatever penchant you may have for democracy, because the two opinions are logically incongruous. If people are so inferior that they need to be looked after in this way, then what we need is an aristocracy, so superior people don't have to be dragged down by the idiocy of those incapable of looking after themselves. Equality doesn't work if you claim people are so unequal that some need to look after the rest.

[gigantes]

Old people cost the nation big bucks. I guess we should start culling people at 70 then.

Yes, actual infants do need parenting, you won't catch me arguing with you there. But if you're just referring to people that are inferior and using that to justify curtailing the rights of everyone else, then you need to rethink whatever penchant you may have for democracy, because the two opinions are logically incongruous. If people are so inferior that they need to be looked after in this way, then what we need is an aristocracy, so superior people don't have to be dragged down by the idiocy of those incapable of looking after themselves. Equality doesn't work if you claim people are so unequal that some need to look after the rest.

you're the one who made the characterisation.

[cuad]

hahaha

USA = grows and sells carbohydrates like rice, soybeans, and corn.

USA = wants to ban fats. note that fats != carbohydrates

hahaha

[miller-time]

Old people cost the nation big bucks. I guess we should start culling people at 70 then.

The difference is that treated like a disease "old" is unpreventable whereas obesity is.

[Dresta]

The difference is that treated like a disease "old" is unpreventable whereas obesity is.

Yeah it is: you can die early and not desperately cling to life when it isn't worth living.

You can smoke, you can drink, you can eat trans-fats (well, not any more); you can do all sorts of things to shorten your life-span and do your bit for society. I don't see how clinging to life when you can't sustain yourself is any different to stuffing your face with trans-fats tbh, at least in regard to the harm it causes society, and the cost to the taxpayer.

You're simply picking the kind of self-indulgence that you agree with, and saying that one's ok, whereas those you disagree with aren't.

[highwhey]

hahaha

USA = grows and sells carbohydrates like rice, soybeans, and corn.

USA = wants to ban fats. note that fats != carbohydrates

hahaha

The FDA wants to ban "trans fats", they are basically a type of unsaturated fats that are hydrogenated. Also, fats are lipids not carbohydrates.

[MadeFromDust]

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[OldSkoolball#52]

Gee. THANKS oBOMMa

Im sure the next mass shooting is right around the corner too


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[Dresta]

Also, i wonder where an earth they pull stats like this from:

'The change could potentially prevent 20,000 heart attacks a year and 7,000 deaths, said FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg.'

Are they assuming trans fats consumers are going to start consuming celery instead? What is it being replaced with? No mention is made. It is strange how government agencies can just pull stats out of their asses like this, and yet so many still lap it up.

And if preventing heart attacks is their concern, then why not ban TV? (yes i know the FDA can't do that, but the logic is the same). Nothing promotes idle and motionless behaviour as much as tv does, and constant physical inactivity is known to be one of the bigger causes of heart disease. It also discourages mental activity by providing most with an easier and less useful way of obtaining information than reading.

Ban TV! Ban it!!!

[KevinNYC]

the irony being that those same foods mentioned are probably far worse health risks than trans fat.

No, they are not. Or to put this another way, removing the trans fats will make these foods healthier. It doesn't mean you should base your diet around

Transfats are an artificial ingredient that increase the bad cholesterol while lowering the good cholesterol. There's probably not many other ingredients that do that.

Here's what the Mayo Clinic says

When it comes to fat, trans fat is considered by some doctors to be the worst type of fat. Unlike other fats, trans fat — also called trans-fatty acids — both raises your "bad" (LDL) cholesterol and lowers your "good" (HDL) cholesterol.

A high LDL cholesterol level in combination with a low HDL cholesterol level increases your risk of heart disease, the leading killer of men and women.

[KevinNYC]

hahaha

USA = grows and sells carbohydrates like rice, soybeans, and corn.

USA = wants to ban fats. note that fats != carbohydrates

hahaha

The american agriculture industry doesn't sell any fat? What?

[KingBeasley08]

Dumb as shit, let people eat what they want