Big Brother Takes Over: What Next, No Deep Fying?
Posted on July 26, 2008 by Gary McCarty
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Where I live, it’s home to great weather, but also lots of venal, selfish, self-centered people–you know, the types who drive their SUVs right up your butts and push you off the road so they can get to work at 11 a.m., and then terrorize scores of other drivers ramrodding their way home at 2 p.m. (their coffers having been laden in payment for their cheap talk at lunch, evidently).
The rest of us scrap for a living; they commandeer it at our expense. And, unfortunately, they’re also holier than thou and just happen to run our state, California, and most large local communities.
Thus it came as no surprise but lots of sorrow as theese Big Cats, donning their Big Brother hats in Sacramento, decided that the public was too stupid and sleazy to pollice itself, so they needed to step in.
Result: A total ban on the use of trans fats, phasing in to completion by 2011.
Now, most restaurants I know have already made the transition, leaving probably just Mom and Pops who can’t afford the expensive substitutes.
Strike one PR victory for the Big Cats/Brothers, and "strike three, you’re out" for Mom and Pop.
These are not matters that any government or government agency should ever concern itself with. The experience with Prohibition should be example enough to let people police themselves, but no, "We know better!"
Anybody doubting the duplicity of government’s role in food bans should study the history of red yeast rice. When the large pharmaceuticals came out with statins to reduce cholesterol, someone pointed out that red yeast rice had the same lowering effect.
What happened next? The FDA banned the sale of said rice as a "harmful" substance. Years later, a judge came to his senses and overturned the ruling. By then, however, statins were in, rice out.
Trans fats, of course, have known deleterious effects, as do–let’s see–caffeine, sugar, carbohydates, alochol, and the list goes on.
Sacramento could have a field day banning things bad for us till we’re left to–buy from government-approved markets!
Lord help us.
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