I think this is an appropriate follow up to Celeste's blog about her delicious fried chicken. New York has passed their trans fat ban.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16051436/
All restaurants in New York are required to switch to a healthier alternative by 2008. So, Celeste, in 2008 you could probably truthfully say that your fried chicken is better than any fried chicken you could get in New York. Assuming VA hasn't banned the sale of Crisco by then. It's good to know our politicians are looking out for us. I am frankly baffled that this is what they choose to ban after banning smoking. Why not ban the sale of alcohol in restaurants? That's bad for you . . . and it kills people. I can already see the furtive back alley meetings between the members of Overeater's Anonymous. "Yo man, you got any oreos, I'm fucking dying here man!"
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Well, obesity is like the number one cause of preventable death in the U.S. Also, it's not like the country doesn't have a long history of actions like this. The war on drugs comes to mind, as does prohibition, the smoking bans, etc...I don't really see how this is any different.
Yes, they're all insanely stupid, and a lot of the hysteria surrounding them is based on shoddy science. Including the idea that obesity is the number one cause of preventable death. Being fat doesn't kill you - heart failure, a stroke, or diabetes do - and those are all things that people who aren't fat get as well, so who's to say that the reason someone died was because they just wouldn't shed that extra 20lbs? It's like how activists would point to the number of people killed by guns each year, without noting that a lot of their numbers included suicides, which would hardly count as a murder. Or the way they pad the numbers for 'smoking related deaths' (those include 90 year olds that died from old age)
And crisco nothing. If you wanna go true hard-core, you fry your chicken in lard and butter with some ham cubes in it. ;)
But that's nothing... Fairfax was trying to force a ruling that no food would be provided to the homeless unless it was prepared in restaraunt certified/inspected kitchens - something that your average homeless shelter, soup kitchen, or church cannot afford to do. Not to mention it rules out any food donations from good samaritans. Top that for nanny-state paternalism!
Yeah...you know my old couches? Goodwill wouldn't take them because they had a few minor tears in them and a coffee stain. But, I didn't want to throw them away because...hey!...some poor peruvian across the street problem needed them! So I left them on the lawn of my apartment complex (real classy right?) and the next morning...at like 4AM (because Nick had to go to open that day), they were gone.
Yep. A lot of restaurants would like to donate their excess food to homeless shelters and soup kitchens, but the regulations controlling what they can donate, etc, are so restrictive, that it's easier for them to just throw all that food away. Then the homeless can go dive for it themselves, I guess.
Salvation Army will normally take, like, anything furniture-wise. Good Will are little bitches about it.
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