A MINORITY VIEW
BY WALTER E. WILLIAMS
RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2007, AND THEREAFTER

In the wake of New York City’s ban on restaurant use of trans fat, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said the ban is “not going to take away anybody’s ability to go out and have the kind of food they want, in the quantities they want. . . . We are just trying to make food safer.”

That, my friends, is tyrannical double-talk. Let’s look at it. Trans fats are derived from partially hydrogenated vegetable oils. They can raise blood levels of LDL, the “bad cholesterol.” According to Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, president of American Council on Science and Health, trans fats are about two percent of our daily caloric intake, while saturated fats, which also raise LDL blood levels, make up 10 to 15 percent.

I know I just posted another essay from the Professor, but I just love how he writes. “tyrannical double-talk” is the perfect way to describe this. I’d apply the same description to the explosion of smoking bans as well.

Read the rest here at Professor Williams’ website.