Posted on December 24th, 2006 in General by tavaresforby || No Comment
Here are some fun photos at Mammoth Mountain. I had a blast. My buddy owe me the pictures he took, but he still havn’t sent them. I hope he is reading this. :0)
Posted on December 6th, 2006 in General by tavaresforby || No Comment
New York’s board of health voted that they will ban trans-fats at restaurants.
NEW YORK (AP) - The Board of Health voted Tuesday to make New York the nation’s first city to ban artery-clogging artificial trans fats at restaurants - from the corner pizzeria to high-end bakeries.
The board, which passed the ban unanimously, did give restaurants a slight break by relaxing what had been considered a tight deadline for compliance. Restaurants will be barred from using most frying oils containing artificial trans fats by July and will have to eliminate the artificial trans fats from all of their foods by July 2008.
But restaurant industry representatives called the ban burdensome and unnecessary.
“We don’t think that a municipal health agency has any business banning a product the Food and Drug Administration has already approved,” said Dan Fleshler, a spokesman for the National Restaurant Association.
What ever happened to self responsibility? When did it ever become such that the government had to make decisions for us adults and baby sit us. I feel that the absolute bare minimum a restaurant needs to do is provide a health chart for the food that they serve. Once that requirement is meet, it is up to the individual to decide if whether he or she would like to consume their food.
If we continue to allow this type of behavior from our government, we will end up as some type of communist country. The government in some states is already trying to tell us that we cannot even protect ourselves from evil, now they are telling us what we cannot choose what food we eat. By doing this, I guess the government is pretty much saying, “People are too stupid to know that eating fatty foods are unhealthy.” Therefore, they must step in and choose for us. Like a parent does a child. And if the government feels that we are too stupid to make our own conscious decisions about what food we eat, then why aren’t we too stupid to vote? Oh, I forgot. The same politicians who propose these types of idiotic laws are the same politicians who prey on stupid people for their votes.