Are you kidding me? I might not be able to eat trans fat in NYC?

NYC eyes ban on restaurant trans fats

I’m practically speechless. Since when did the health nannies in this country accumulate so much power? Now we will have to pay for more intrusive inspections of restaurants (wasting tax dollars), there is a greater risk of corruption (bribing inspectors to look the other way), and we are one more foot down the slippery slope towards the government mandating that we only eat healthy foods.

Dr. Walter Willett, chairman of the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard University School of Public Health, praised New York health officials for considering a ban, which he said could save lives.

“Artificial trans fats are very toxic, and they almost surely causes tens of thousands of premature deaths each year,” he said. “The federal government should have done this long ago.”

There are lots of things that are bad for us, lots of things that cause “premature” deaths every year. If I eat a trans-fat-free Wendy’s triple cheeseburger meal with a large coke every day for lunch and dinner, that will likely cause my “premature” death. Does that mean that the government will soon start placing restrictions on how many calories a restaurant can serve me for one transaction? After all, it would be “good” for me. Multi-layer cheeseburgers still contain more calories and fat than are recommended for a whole daily allowance of each under FDA guidelines.

But why stop there? If a restaurant serves me a meal within the recommended calorie amount, maybe those are empty calories! If I consume nothing but empty calories, lack of a balanced diet and proper nutrition will lead to my “premature” death. I think what they should do is tag us all with government-encrypted RFID chips that track our consumption so that the government can be sure that we eat a fully healthy and nutritious diet (as determined by the government, whether accurate or not) every day. The chip will tell the grocery store what you are allowed to buy. Your stove won’t be allowed tot urn on if you are only cooking brownies but not broccoli. Then, every day, or week, or month, you get your chip scanned so the government can confirm that you aren’t consuming homemade candy on the side.

Violations will be punishable by death.