Quote: (11-07-2013 09:35 PM)scorpion Wrote:
If those companies start to cut corners to save a few bucks and basically end up poisoning people...well...oops? Their bad? That's it?
Poisoning, really? How are trans fats suddenly a "poison"? True, I've seen plenty of zombies walking out of Dunkin Donuts but I'm pretty sure they were that way already when they came in. And some of them were ancient so if it's a poison it's an awfully slow acting one.
Yes, trans fats when consumed in sufficiently large quantities are probably not very healthy. If that makes them a "poison" then it's not hard to see how "coercive arguments" are really, when it comes right down to it, no different from "rape".
The analogy may seem far fetched but it is not. Start with a few "studies", add a healthy amount of rhetorical exaggeration, hold some hearings, give a government agency regulatory authority, and you never know what might come out.
same old shit, sixes and sevens Shaft...