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Greg and Beththe political and personal musings of two mountaineers living in west-central Florida
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Gregory Morris, 10/11/07 12:51:21 pm |
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...and I owned a small bakery, I would hang a sign in the windows stating:
All of our baked products are lovingly hand-crafted with mono- and poly-unsaturated trans-fats for your masticating pleasure.
Or maybe... "When they outlaw trans-isomer-fatty-acid, only outlaws will have trans-isomer-fatty-acid."
Why should the government have any say in my decision to use partially hydrogenated cottonseed oil as a key component of my baked goods?
Here's a quote from the Wiki article:Production of hydrogenated fats increased steadily until the 1960s as processed vegetable fats replaced animal fats in the US and other western countries. At first, the argument was a financial one due to lower costs; however, advocates also said that the unsaturated trans fats of margarine were healthier than the saturated fats of butter. The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) campaigned against the use of saturated fats for fast food cooking starting in 1984. When fast food companies replaced the saturated fat with partially hydrogenated unsaturated fats, CSPI's campaign against them ended. While CSPI defended trans fats in their 1987 Nutrition Action newsletter, by 1992 CSPI began to speak against trans fats and is currently strongly against their use.
My guess is, next year they'll decide trans-fat isn't such a big deal and go after whatever all the companies in the US have just replaced it with. Actually, my hope is that we come full circle and decide that real butter is the healthiest choice. Mmmmm. There's nothing like real butter. |
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