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:

Offenders would not face fines or penalties. Instead, [City Councilman Juan] Ramos said, they would be subjected to re-education and the possibility of public scorn.

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]
Yesterday: Juan Ramos To Whip Us All Into Shape