NYC homeless shelters being forced by law to toss donations containing trans-fats

[PJABBER]

trans fats are illegal in nyc

I KNEW the Government was involved in some way!

Soy dogs and near beer for everyone!

 

[feralkid]

Jesus. How is anyone alive that didn't know about trans fat?

I mean seriously, everyone before us was unaware. How could they have survived such a horrific ignorance?

Because trans fats have only existed for 100 years; even less time as a major food ingredient.


...the more you know...

 

[ShawnD1]

Any food (even if slightly unhealthy) > no food > "dangerous expired food"

Expired food isn't automatically dangerous. It's more of a general guideline like when a light bulb says it will last 1000 hours.

I remember back in collage I took a bunch of expired milk home from McDonalds because McDonalds isn't allowed to sell expired milk but I didn't mind having milk that is 1 day too old. If it smells good and tastes normal, I'm down. I bet homeless people have even lower standards than this.

 

[Schadenfroh]

LOL... I wonder if they asked the hungry homeless about their opinion.

I am sure they value their input as much as the anti-GMO crowd values input from third-world countries with starving populations that would be very grateful for the technology.

 

[Vic]

Good. The health of the poor matters and trans fat is poison.

What was the consensus of medical opinion regarding trans fats less than 20 years ago?

 

[Vic]

Rule #1 - Do not indulge in AT P&N forum play while at work.

Rule #0 - random posters do not make the rules here.

 

[feralkid]

What was the consensus of medical opinion regarding trans fats less than 20 years ago?

Their hadn't been a whole lot of studies at that point. Like I said, trans-fats are relatively new in the food supply.

 

[Patranus]

Their hadn't been a whole lot of studies at that point. Like I said, trans-fats are relatively new in the food supply.

.......See thread on global warming e-mails......

 

[Vic]

Their hadn't been a whole lot of studies at that point.

There had been TONS of studies, and they all said we should consume trans fat over other types of fats, especially saturated fats like those in butter and lard. That's where there was a boom in margarine consumption in the 70s-90s and why they still sell margarine products with brand names like "I can't believe it's not butter."

I'm not questioning medical science here, I'm questioning the kneejerk morons who believe in absolutes. Basically, science learned that trans fats were bad by encouraging people to consume them. Not intentionally, but because otherwise they wouldn't have had the data. Now we know better. But we should go forward with the rational understanding of the limitations of our knowledge and how we derive it, and not with the same all or nothing we had before.