Is High-Fat Partially Hydrogenated Oil Criminal?
• Health Issues
Arthur Hoyte and the Center for Science in the Public Interest are suing the fried chicken franchise over its choice of cooking oil.
“KFC knows this, yet it recklessly puts its customers at risk of a Kentucky Fried Coronary,” Jacobsen said.
Hoyte said he is suing to force KFC to change its cooking practices “for my son and others’ kids, so they may have a healthier, happier, trans-fat-free future.”
“If I had known that KFC uses an unnatural frying oil, and that their food was so high in trans fat, I would have reconsidered my choices,” Hoyte said.
I find it very hard to believe that he didn’t know. I’ve known. And a physician certainly should have.
People know the health consequences of fatty fried chicken. The eat it because their desire outweighs their worries about their health. I don’t want the government protecting me from my eating habits. It is up to me to be responsible.
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