Partially Hydrogenated Soybean Oil

[opebo]

And please post about whether banning such additivies sounds good to you.

[John Dibble]

Anything and everything partially hydrogenated is bad for you since it has trans fats in it. I avoid eating foods that contain it whenever possible, though I don't advocate a ban - if people want to eat that kind of crap let them and also let them deal with the consequences.

[opebo]

Interesting, though Dibble, that barring extensive effort on the part of consumers, the natural inclination of corporations is to feed them cheap addictive poisons.

[MasterJedi]

It's unhealth and it shouldn't be banned.

[Blue Rectangle]

Healthier than Fascism

[DanielX]

Healthier than Fascism

True, but opebo seems to think that prudishness only applies to sex. I mean, telling people what they can and cannot EAT?

[David S]

Opebo first you want to dictate where we live - no suburbs.
Then you want to tell us where to shop- no strip malls.
Now you want to tell us what to eat.

How about this- shove it!!

[John Dibble]

Interesting, though Dibble, that barring extensive effort on the part of consumers, the natural inclination of corporations is to feed them cheap addictive poisons.

And I should care why? I'm not responsible for what other people do. I have no trouble procuring food that doesn't contain this crap in it(not all products require it, like, y'know, fruits and veggies, and there is sufficient demand for food that doesn't have it), the only 'extensive' effort I have to put in is reading the ingredients on the box or can of the item I'm looking to purchase. That'll cost me what, maybe five minutes extra at the store? How terrible.

[opebo]

Opebo first you want to dictate where we live - no suburbs.
Then you want to tell us where to shop- no strip malls.

No, I have suggested curtailing the compulsions the State employs to subsidize and encourage stripmall suburbs, but I have never advocated any dictation of individual's living arrangements.

Interesting, though Dibble, that barring extensive effort on the part of consumers, the natural inclination of corporations is to feed them cheap addictive poisons.

And I should care why? I'm not responsible for what other people do. I have no trouble procuring food that doesn't contain this crap in it(not all products require it, like, y'know, fruits and veggies, and there is sufficient demand for food that doesn't have it), the only 'extensive' effort I have to put in is reading the ingredients on the box or can of the item I'm looking to purchase. That'll cost me what, maybe five minutes extra at the store? How terrible.

Dibble, in fariness, it is true that the anhedonic frontier/puritan culture of the USA encourages the eating of garbage.  It is simply a nation devoid of taste and discernment, and the corporations which fill the trough are merely serving that monstrosity.  Nevertheless, they do often attempt to cover up what they are doing - for example the Coke corporation strongly opposes the smuggling of Mexican Coke into the US, for fear the livestock will discover how bad the stuff they've been swilling tastes! 

Btw, your fruits and vegetables, if purchased in a normal grocery store, are of an inferior quality, and produced on a massive scale by large corporations.  If you want decent fruit, come to Thailand!

[John Dibble]

Btw, your fruits and vegetables, if purchased in a normal grocery store, are of an inferior quality, and produced on a massive scale by large corporations.  If you want decent fruit, come to Thailand!

Not all of us have mommy and daddy to serve our every whim, opebo.

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Btw, your fruits and vegetables, if purchased in a normal grocery store, are of an inferior quality, and produced on a massive scale by large corporations.  If you want decent fruit, come to Thailand!

Not all of us have mommy and daddy to serve our every whim, opebo.

Yes Opebo, the oranges & grapefruit I just picked off my neighbors tree are "mass produced". The only problem we have is trying to get rid of the stuff we have so much of it!

[opebo]

Btw, your fruits and vegetables, [/b]if purchased in a normal grocery store[/b], are of an inferior quality, and produced on a massive scale by large corporations.  If you want decent fruit, come to Thailand!

Not all of us have mommy and daddy to serve our every whim, opebo.

Yes Opebo, the oranges & grapefruit I just picked off my neighbors tree are "mass produced". The only problem we have is trying to get rid of the stuff we have so much of it!