LBR#352: Queen Elizabeth Matron of Honor?
Back from a brief bout with persnickety allergies, our humble hostess is all over the map on today’s show. It’s sneeze-a-licious!
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Had to skip the outro song, too god bothering & tweeeeee for me!
Think the thing you were wanting from HRH is a ‘Royal Warrant’ (which you can wiki).
M.
Its unfortunate that food companies can continue filling food with ingredients known to cause health problems. It’s like tobacco being allowed to continue using nicotine to keep people addicted to a hazardous product. Trans fat was created to extend shelf life and improve product texture. And boy do we Americans love it! A ban may be heavy handed and out of place by government. It seems a warning on products would be more appropriate. You can’t make educated decisions with a lack of information.
With respect to the trans fat ban…
If restaurants were required to have complete nutritional information posted in their menus, then I agree that people should make their own decisions and let the market decide. However, as it stands, it is either difficult or impossible to get complete nutritional information about restaurant food. If people don’t have the INFORMATION to make decisions, then we need to pull the most dangerous substances out of the industry as a whole.
Frankly, I’d keep trans fat usage legal, but mandate nutritional info in menus. If we knew what was really in this food, would we keep eating it? In New York, I bet the answer is no (and they know that, which is why the industry would surely fight it).