Thread:Emmette Hernandez Coleman/@comment-681745-20140322080234/@comment-406947-20140402165554

I think by law in America, nearly all store-bought foods are supposed to list their ingredients on the packaging. If someone eats trans-fats because he doesn't bother to read the ingredients, that's his fault. For that matter, it's his right to not read the ingredients, as dumb as exercising that right is. The government is (for the most part) not obligated to protect that person from himself, and certainly shouldn't protect him at the expense of the freedom of the rest of us. Point is, there's (mostly) no excuse for not knowing. As for doing without the product, that's kind of the point; if you do without trans-fats you don't eat foods with trans-fats. Nobody's personal liberty is violated when someone choses to do without products with trans-fats.

As for flavor, my impression was that it did effect the flavor, not that I follow trans-fats the least bit closely, but this is the first I've herd that it doesn't. I suppose the problem is it's too politicized, so it's impossible to tell the truth from the lies; too much intensive to lie on both sides. Not accusing you personally of lying, just skeptical of anything that claims trans-fats do or do not effect flavor. Lastly, I acknowledge this post doesn't cover restart-bought foods, that's a little more compacted and I'll get back to you on that.