City Council: Let Them Discuss Cake

If you need to know why the City Council (namely Councilwoman Joan Krajewski) is revisiting the trans fat ban, all you need to do is check out the mouthwatering CBS 3 report, which features multiple shots of donuts and makes you gain weight just by looking at it.

But City Council didn’t just buy some donuts from local bakeries and then decide to reverse the ban. No, they debated it for three hours, according to Metro’s new blog, cleverly titled Metropolis.

One of Juan Ramos’ reasons for wanting to keep the ban on artificial trans fats? Avoiding national confusion.

Councilman Juan Ramos: “Philadelphia is nationally known as a trans fat-free city, this amendment would create confusion across the country.”

Farmers in Idaho would just not know what to do if Philadelphia exempts “mom and pop” bakeries from the trans fat rules, which it’s going to do of course.

City Council Bake-Off! [Metropolis]
Local Bakers Take Trans Fat Fight To City Hall [CBS 3]