[kahljorn]

lol.

the biggest point I want to highlight is:
"The reason the FDA can't outright ban trans fats is because corporations would go nuts"

Businesses pretend to go nuts about anything they think will make them less money, sometimes even if they don't know what will happen monetary wise, just because they are resistant to change and it changes the business field. And why is it that businesses are more important than the FDA or our health? Corporations shouldn't be above the law, and corporations shouldn't have any self-interested say in the law.

"It's about the government, in this case a city government, deciding what people should and shouldn't eat."

So if the government told you not to consume large quanities of cyanide, removed cyanide from foods/water, told you you couldn't eat any cyanide, (really replace anything deadly that's commonly found in foods and waters) "you" might complain that they are telling you what you can and can't eat and that you want to make the choice on your own?
It's not like transfat is some natural resource. It's a food additive that was invented in the 19th century. You're not even really eatting the transfat. I mean, unless you guys order bars of crisco from mcdonalds this doesn't really effect what you guys are eatting that much.

any bakery that uses transfats is retarded. I make my own bread and it only needs like four ingredients (it's really easy) and none of them are even transfat. I don't think transfat is an essential ingredient in anything. I'm sorry you guys will miss your crisco that much.

Plus haven't you guys ever been annoyed by a fat person? There might not be any second hand smoke but there's stuff such as crowded subways, heavy breathers, stinky armpits, stinky people in general, second hand farts, second hand burps, I mean the list goes on. Come on guys. And this is in the city with like the least amount of personal space per person in probably the entire world except maybe china or something. Fat people are just impractical in a situation like that.