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Throw Jughead In The Stocks Immediately
A City Council committee debated and voted unanimously for a trans fat ban yesterday, as 17 people in City Hall continue to tell us what legal products we can’t put in our bodies. But nevertheless, the trans fat ban would stop McDonald’s or Burger King from cooking with those disgusting, artery-clogging fats, so it’s not the worst thing in the world. Why one would want to go to Burger King or McDonald’s is a question to be left to the sages. Unlike the smoking ban, though, there are no fines for violating the trans fat ban, scheduled to go into effect Sept. 1 if it passes the whole City Council. (It will. Nobody even came to defend it at City Council yesterday, something I wish I had gone and done.) No, there are no fines, but the penalties will even be greater:
Public scorn! Dave Thomas, Wimpy, Ronald McDonald, Mayor McCheese! (The Hamburgular is already in prison.) Put them in the stocks outside City Hall and we’ll throw tomatoes at them! This trans fat ban is going to be awesome. Council goes on the attack on trans fats [Inquirer] |
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“But nevertheless, the trans fat ban would stop McDonald’s or Burger King from cooking with those disgusting, artery-clogging fats, so it’s not the worst thing in the world.”
i’m sure locally-owned eateries will cry fowl too, because trans fats definitely appear in some of the grease-dampened burgers and cheesestakes at alot of the food trucks.
i moved to philadelphia almost a year ago, and, despite constant (if not life-threatening) exercise and the absence of a car to get from a to b, i am fatter than when i left north carolina. the cheap food in philly pretty much sucks and is bad for you, regardless of purveyor.
Its hard to decide whether this is a civil liberties issue or a public health issue. As an individual choice, you would probably do better just eating fresh foods instead of packaged stuff.
I dont live in Philly anyway.