Criminalizing Transfats
• Law
Chicago alderman Edward M. Burke joined the ranks of politicians who want to make selling unhealthy food a crime.
Under Mr. Burke’s proposal, establishments that failed to remove “artificial trans fats” from their kitchens would be fined $200 to $1,000 a day. In the crowd at the Taste of Chicago on a recent evening, most people seemed amused at the prospect that City Hall might legislate their waistlines. Others chuckled at what they considered naïve earnestness, to think that a city’s long love affair with big, tasty, greasy food could be undone with a simple vote of 50 aldermen (some of whom appear to have some appreciation of the affair).
Comments
I think this is just another example of Americans overeating then trying to blame a substance for their problems.
Hunter Cashdollar
Posted by: Hunter H. Cashdollar | September 28, 2006 09:29 PM