Campaign against Trans Fats in food

[Quaywe]

OK so this has nothing to do with ED but something to do with the food most ED residents east.

There is a petition on 10 Downing St's web site to ban trans fats in food. If you haven't heard of trans fats they're basically really really bad engineered fats that exist in most processed foods and some red meat. In short they mess up your insides, however they are not listed on UK food labels and have no restrictions on their use. YET!

If you want to find out more click here: http://www.tfx.org.uk/page0.html

If you want to sign the petition to stop their use in food click here: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/Limit-transfats/#detail

[Huguenot]

It's definitely an issue Quaywe - although I believe that the reason we haven't enacted this regulation yet is that we don't also have regulations in place to prevent manufacturers replacing this bad-fat with another worse fat (e.g the old enemy saturated animal fats like 'Butter' [shudder - even sounds bad eh?]. Hence an appropriate period of research and consultation is underway.

I don't think anyone thinks trans fats are either good for you or expedient.

If I recall, they banned trans fats in NY, NY, but the knock-on effect wasn't anticipated.