Is This a Precedent? Is This Just Another Step Toward the Government Controling Our Lives?

Well thats just lovely. People now have such a lack of self control and are getting so fat the government has to cut them off at the trough.

It's a public health issue. We all pay for the health problems of people who eat too much fatty food, just as we all pay for the health problems of smokers. So it is everyone's business.

And really, is it any different from the government putting up traffic lights, instead of just letting people decide for themselves when it is safe to cross the intersection? Or making child proof bottles for dangerous substances? Or regulating drugs? Banning trans fats will save lives.

There is nothing wrong with banning the use of trans fat usage in resteraunts. They feed people too much in the first place. I don't know if people realize how food portion sizes have increased in the last 100 years.

I'd worry more about the government maintaining data bases on everything you do than about a local government restricting unhealthy fats. I suggest you get some perspective on what is or is not an important infringement of your rights. Drop the partisan drivel for a moment and think about it.

I don't think that I would take the argument as far as you have, but it does seem overreaching for the City of New York to be defining what people may or may not eat in a restaurant.

no, the government didn't make it illegal to eat these foods.. just illegal for people to sell them to you .... would the government be right in allowing a place to serve you rat poison just because it tastes good? (assumption about taste) ......... i would think not.. there would be no argument there.. high-trans fats are a poison and are killing millions of people in our nation.. obesity is already one of the leading causes of death and health care debt in this nation, and is expected according to current trends to overtake smoking as the number 1 within the next decade.

They aren't saying that we can't eat it, they are regulating the oil that is being used. I have no problem with that. It states nothing about limitations on food.

The shark was jumped years ago.

In a few years everything you think do and say will be fed to you at breakfast.

we have a representative government.

we vote for them.

get involved in politics so you can help make the laws.

yes, corporate interests etc influence govt.

but still that is just people, just "us" ...

stockholders, employees, etc.

It's the nanny state syndrome. They have obviously been talking to British politicians.