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Default Personal responsibility with food...

On Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:06:36 GMT, "JoeSpareBedroom"
> wrote:

>"Omelet" > wrote in message
>news
>> Sorry, but I've heard from people recently that McD's new "Trans-fat
>> free" fries suck. I've not tried them.

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>> I'm glad that I happen to enjoy a healthy diet for the most part, but
>> even I like some bad stuff once in awhile, and that should be MY choice,
>> not some vote whore in Washington DC.
>>
>> Outlawing Trans-fat oil is just stupid, wrong, ignorant and the perfect
>> example of "PC" gone WAY overboard. Allowing lawmakers to make dietary
>> choices for is is wrong wrong wrong:


>
>If a substance is everywhere in food, we have LESS choices available for
>avoiding it. Therefore, it's GOOD that trans fats are vanishing. You were
>wrong about this.
>


Good point. And let's not forget about the children. I'd just
a'soon not throw them to the dogs because their parents don't know any
better (or it's the best they can do, or they don't care, whatever).