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Those folks at City Council sure are shrinking violets, aren't they? Take Ed Burke, for example. First, he wanted to ban the use of trans fats in all city-located restaurants. When he realized that wasn't entirely plausible, he introduced watered-down legislation limiting the trans fat ban to companies that only do more than $20 million dollars in gross revenue. Now, Burke is proposing that those same companies the amended legislation would affect post trans fat warnings on all wrappers, cartons, and containers.
The verbose warning would read, “Consumers of this product are hereby placed on notice that this restaurant prepares foods using cooking oils that contain artificial trans fats…The consumption of this fat increases the risk of coronary heart disease.” It's more tactful than, "Eating too much of this can kill you, fatty." But it's better than Bible quotations and just as likely to be ignored while customers tear into their cheesy triple veinclogger supreme.
Personally, we're waiting for Burke to come back in a couple months and amend the legislation further so that trans fats have to be used exclusively at Charlie Trotter's.
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Mr. Yuck!!! I love it.
Great. Another alderman carefully avoiding his actual job of governing, and instead banning foodstuffs.
It's not clear to me why we have a City Council at this point.
oh, mr. yuk.
How about we assume that everyone that eats at McDonald's, KFC and these other $20M+ restaurants knows that when they put a mechanically separated deep fried chicken part in their mouth they are eating trans fat. If people want to eat their then let them, they are the ones that are going look like Jabba the Hutt at the end of the day. It's not up to the alderman to regulate that. Let him get to work on improving his ward instead of sticking his fingers in so many pies (made with partially hydrogenated soybean oil)
I just wish Mr. Burke could win the lottery so he could retire and let someone else become Alderman that actually did there damn job. What a buffoon
Burke really seems to care a lot about what others are eating. When I heard about this a few months ago, I sent Burke an e-mail every day for a week to tell him what I ingested and how much exercise I got that day. I also copied my own alderman on the e-mails.
Hey may not have read them, but I figured I was doing my part to let him know.
This is his e-mail, if you are interested in doing the same:
eburke@cityofchicago.org
How about we assume that everyone that eats at McDonald's, KFC and these other $20M+ restaurants knows that when they put a mechanically separated deep fried chicken part in their mouth they are eating trans fat.
Sadly it's not the case. Ever seen a mom on the bus feed her baby cheetos and kool-aid? Go to a McDonald's in a sketchy neighborhood and ask random people who the British Prime Minister is.
Trust me many people don't know what trans fats are or that they're bad for them.