The Peoples Republic Of Kalifornia

The Peoples Republic Of Kalifornia

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Schwarzenegger Terminates Trans Fat in Calif.

By MOLLY HUNTER

July 25, 2008 —

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has made it official: California will be the first trans-fat free state in the nation.

All-natural palm, rice and soybean oils will soon be king, and life in the Golden State will be forever altered.

The California legislature pushed the bill through last week, and Schwarzenegger signed it into law Friday, July 25.

The ban will require food providers to begin phasing out trans fat oils by July 1, 2009. Thereafter, noncompliance with the ban will result in fines of up to $1,000.

Trans unsaturated fatty acids are the partially hydrogenated oils that result from a chemical process producing solid fats with a longer shelf life.

These so-called “trans fats” were once thought to be healthier than butter, but research in the last decade has shown that they are much more harmful to health than had been believed. According to the American Heart Association, trans unsaturated fatty acids are medically proven to increase the risk of coronary heart disease by raising bad cholesterol (LDL) levels and reducing good cholesterol levels (HDL).

With more than half a million Americans dying each year from heart disease, the switch may be coming not a moment too soon.

This ban comes on the heels of the New York City’s prohibition on trans fats in restaurants, which took full effect on July 1. But the wheels began turning in California before the Big Apple’s eateries sought substitutes for their deep fryers.

Tiburon, a northern California town of about 8,700 people, has boasted trans fat-free restaurants since 2004. All 18 restaurants turned away, rather effortlessly and voluntarily, from partially hydrogenated oils at the urging of a lawyer, Steven Joseph, and his task force at bantransfats.com.

“The change has been very well received by our customers,” said Carl Peschlow, owner of Sweden House Bakery in Tiburon. “Those so-called bad fats do, however, give our croissants a little oomph.”

Peschlow said that while his bakery made the change relatively early, they still use a “tiny bit” of trans fat in their croissant recipe. Otherwise, Peschlow said, “the croissants just look like fat pancakes.”

When New York City turned its attention to trans fats, they looked to Joseph’s Project Tiburon for guidance. Joseph, a California transplant from Washington D.C., also led the fight against Kraft in 2003, asking the food giant to “cease and desist marketing and selling Oreo cookies to children in the State of California” until the popular chocolate sandwich cookie contained zero trans fats.

Kraft caved and has since become a leader in the industry, reducing or eliminating trans fats in 650 of its products. “Clearly that’s what people wanted and that’s what they care about,” said Susan Davison, Kraft’s director of corporate affairs.

Joseph and his team also prompted McDonalds to re-think its use of trans fats, and today Wendy’s has gone completely trans fat-free. (California staple In-N-Out Burger has never used trans fats since opening in 1948.)

The California Restaurant Association along with other organizations has led the charge against the ban, claiming that many restaurants are making the shift without the government’s help.

Chains including Taco Bell, Denny’s, Burger King, Olive Garden, El Pollo Loco and Red Lobster have voluntarily pledged to fully or partially eliminate trans fats in their kitchens.

Here we go again, cell phones, cigarettes, trans-fats what’s next? Might be Guns? hell they are already harder to get here for the “LAW Abiding citizens” than anywhere else in the country. BUT, to get one off the street is fairly simple, I could load my house with a variety of firearms in a matter of days because of the folks I know, NOT LEGALLY, but I could.

When we allow this intrusion, this type of nanny state politics we can’t take it back, there will not be a “Trans-fat” overturn or a cell phone overturn, and when they add stronger gun laws that have proven NOT to have decreased gun crimes, they have not overturned or decreased those laws in any way.

This is typical liberal idiocy IMO, we make the manufacturers or food chains put the information out there about their product, either on wrappers or menu’s the information about trans-fats is all over the place but in moderation like anything else it is acceptable and will not kill you, the key is “Moderation” and liberals seem to think they need to make that decision for you.

Funny liberals are the ones crying the loudest about lost liberties.

Mark my words folks, this is just the start of more laws, federal and state. YOU all will be dealing with the Nanny state mentality.

Arm and Ammo up.

20 Replies to “The Peoples Republic Of Kalifornia”

  1. the problem is go to any poor neighborhood where people have no/little transport.
    the groceries are mostly killer goods and booze.

    go to most foodbanks and watch the bags full of junk food not healhty stuff roll out the door.

    the healhty stuff isnt available

    i call it the lose a leg diet. many diabetics do.

    you need to see kids being sent off to school wiht a packet of potato chips or some other insta junk to understand the need. to ask manufactures to give all opportunity for healthy choices. is something good. we ned to healhty stuff to be available

    bad is letting manufactures determine what we eat.

    taking away consumer or personal rights vs giving us healhty not the most profitable manufacturing choices.

    the cigarret is ue is aproblem becasue ca isnt proposing healht concious scent free environments.
    and a cigarrette outdoors vs a barbeque or an suv ( come on)

    your mixing up arguments.! and so are they.

  3. @dc matthews: Its a damn shame I have to blast another MAC user but here goes:
    Manufacturers DO NOT determine what we eat, they determine what sells. The poor “boxes” and what not is not the problem, the state can dictate what goes into aid boxes that go to the poor, the decision to eat whatever you want should be yours, the information about what foods are bad for you is out there it’s on every box or bag. THAT IS ENOUGH!

    If a parent gives their kids BAD junk food to take to lunch a trans-fat ban will not help, it doesn’t ban sugar, and a parent that sends their kid to school with a lunch full of twinkies needs to be forced into parenting classes, but to say YOU can’t not eat that because WE the government say it’s bad for you… ALWAYS. you might like a twinky of trans-fat variety once a month… ANY DOCTOR WILL TELL YOU, THAT WONT KILL YOU! But no now we take it away all together.. nanny state.

    Cigs are not a mixed argument they are part of the same “NANNY” mentality we see here.

  4. But… But… But… I thought ALL MAC users were intelligent beyond the wildest imagination of us PC users?? 😕

    Guess not…

  5. @TexasFred: Yeah…. Not helpful 😐

    LMAO

    These guys come out of the woodwork when you post an opinion that makes sense.

  6. fred_- ON YOUR god bless texas.

    when can we hope for that? IS WDC INCLUDED?

  9. The main problem is that the proof that trans-fat is harmful is not enough. The dairy industry could have just “provided a little funding” to the research team.

  10. http://www.fda.gov/FDAC/features/2003/503_fats.html

    While scientific reports have confirmed the relationship between trans fat and an increased risk of CHD, none has recommended an amount of trans fat that the FDA could use to establish a Daily Value or a %DV.

    Basically, trans fat is made when manufacturers add hydrogen to vegetable oil–a process called hydrogenation. Hydrogenation increases the shelf life and flavor stability of foods containing these fats.

    Trans fat can be found in vegetable shortenings, some margarines, crackers, cookies, snack foods, and other foods made with or fried in partially hydrogenated oils. Unlike other fats, the majority of trans fat is formed when food manufacturers turn liquid oils into solid fats like shortening and hard margarine. A small amount of trans fat is found naturally, primarily in some animal-based foods.

    Trans fat, like saturated fat and dietary cholesterol, raises the LDL cholesterol that increases your risk for CHD. Americans consume on average 4 to 5 times as much saturated fat as trans fat in their diets.

    Although saturated fat is the main dietary culprit that raises LDL, trans fat and dietary cholesterol also contribute significantly.

    Are All Fats the Same?
    Simply put: No. Fat is a major source of energy for the body and aids in the absorption of vitamins A, D, E, and K and carotenoids. Both animal- and plant-derived food products contain fat, and when eaten in moderation, fat is important for proper growth, development, and maintenance of good health. As a food ingredient, fat provides taste, consistency, and stability and helps you feel full. In addition, parents should be aware that fats are an especially important source of calories and nutrients for infants and toddlers (up to 2 years of age), who have the highest energy needs per unit of body weight of any age group.

    While unsaturated fats (monounsaturated and polyunsaturated) are beneficial when consumed in moderation, saturated and trans fats are not. Saturated fat and trans fat raise LDL cholesterol levels in the blood. Dietary cholesterol also contributes to heart disease. Therefore, it is advisable to choose foods low in saturated fat, trans fat, and cholesterol as part of a healthful diet.

    *refried beans do not have trans fats unless a corporation added them in to save money.

  12. No to trans fats, YEA to transvestites… LMAO.

    Some serious priority issues out there.

    I guess theyd rather you all have alittle more ‘fruit’ in your diet.

  14. too bad you guys only do slap stick.

    i guess the wdc -texas connection was too hard to get?

    no wonder the country is bankrupt and much of the world who used to respect us now fears us -thinks we’ve gone stupid but really greedy and power hungry .
    a bad combo.

    and you’re advertising.

  15. …and what do you do Mathews? ‘lip stick’ ? I didn’t realize I was ‘actually’ on to something with my comment.

  16. Gunz: He’s just another drive-by, stopped to take a shit was all… Rob’s been getting a lot of that lately, it always happens when ya speak the truth…

  17. @dc matthews: The world doesn’t respect us anymore because we have been liberalized, we somehow ended up losing the moral high ground because we sold our morals. We allowed too many LIBERAL Fucknozzles into positions that require fore thought, and guts, we ended up with partial birth abortions, gun control and a bunch of Helicopters wasted in the desert, we ended up with morons like yourself that grew up believing “every body wins” and competition is bad….
    You sir are a pussy… It’s not your fault, you were raised that way and you need the nanny to take care of you… Open your eyes son, reach between your legs and if you feel some growth, you still have a chance.. if not you are all ready dead, you just haven’t picked a day yet.

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  19. And i regret to say i live here in KALIFORNIA and im getting tired of having to be told what to eat by the food police and we have always wanted the STATE OF JEFFERSON maybe its time to sucece from KALIFORNIA and tell those crooks in SAKRAMENTO we dont want big brother

  20. @Spurwing Plover: I know the feeling Spurwing, I also live in the peoples republic of Kalifornia, so does Gawfer and BZ. We have been telling them that forever, but like good libtards they don’t listen. and as long as professors are allowed to spawn ideological view points we will continue getting screwed here.

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