Alphecca

There's a huge difference between banning smoking and banning fatty foods. The smoking ban, which I supported, was not about what people should be allowed to do with their own bodies, but what they should be allowed to do to the bodies of everyone around them. Smoking in public affects everyone in your vicinity.

However, if a diner at the table next to me is eating a heaping portion of partially hydrogenated oil, it doesn't affect me or my health in any way whatsoever. This is just silly.

said it b4 and I'll say it again;

The ban is an arsehole of an idea, completely and utterly,

but;

What is any retaurant worth visiting doing using the cheap and horrible shite that is trans fat?

I could understand it from that supersize me place or the KKK fried rat outlets, and I have no sympathy for their clients, but a good eatery?

I know my posting's been light recently, but I've a photo of a pat of butter with the warning:caution; contains; milk

would have been more upset if it had said; may contain traces of milk

but still...

should be getting some more stuff up soon at the weather in latin africa

especially now that I'm out of that fourth world shit hole of a dictatorship called Britain.

Fuckin' A Jeff, the town where I work (near Chicago) recently passed a "public" smoking ban, and the local university socialist rag is popping a boner about the possiblity of controlling what private establishments may serve as well. I'm all for offering them train fare to California.

I saw a t-shirt once that said something to the effect of, "Modern liberalism is the fear that somewhere, someone is able to care for themselves."

Pretty much sums up this bull shit to me.

"There's a huge difference between banning smoking and banning fatty foods."

No there isn't. When you place responsibility for yourself in the hands of government for their power to be wielded to your liking against someone else, rather than doing for yourself, even if it means eating at home, you have set the precedent that others can and will do it to you. It is always for your own good. And you have approved it. Too late to whine when they gore your ox.

And no, I don't smoke, either. However, there are two cities in my area where I will not dine because of their bans on public smoking. I am a grown man, I prefer to make my own choices and be responsible for myself. I will not reward those that insult me by saying I am incapable of conducting myself as a free agent.

Fuck 'em and feed 'em fishheads and rice.

Regarding smoking -- I've always said (here in fact) that it should be up to the restaurant to decide their policy. They can be smoking or non-smoking and have to post that in their window and in ads. Then, the customers can decide which to patronize. Let the marketplace settle issues like this.

Same with trans-fats. You can require restaurants to post whether or not they use trans-fats (much like a label on a supermarket item) and leave it up to the consumers.

When is someone going to respond to this bullying in the right way? Pull out en masse from a place that does stupid things.

I'd love to see Honda stop selling cars in California or to Californians, for example.

How will Mayor Bloomberg feel if half the restaurants in NYC close?

SA,

You beat me to the punch.

Spot on.

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