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You may have already heard the news: the FDA has banned trans fats! Well, sort of.
Under the FDA's proposed rule, trans fat itself is not banned. Instead, the ban is on the major source of trans fats in processed food - partially hydrogenated oils (PHOs). PHOs are artificial trans fats, created via the process of adding hydrogen to vegetable oils in order to make them semi-solid. Naturally occurring trans fat is found in some meat and dairy including beef, lamb and, in small amounts, butter. Many margarines, on the other hand, are made with PHOs and therefore contain high levels of artificial trans fats. Increasingly, margarines are switching to palm oils (which are semi-solid at room temperature and solid if refrigerated) to eliminate PHOs.
It's important to note that since this is a proposed rule, and not a final one, there's still a chance it could be changed or dropped. In the rule, the FDA mentions that the agency is open to alternate approaches to addressing PHOs in food, such as the setting of acceptable trans fat threshold levels.
Comment: Let's get some facts straight here. Obamacare is not "public-funded health care" - it's private insurance-funded Medicaid on steroids, ie more of the same, only worse.
Also, the cost of Canada's universal healthcare coverage pales into insignificance compared with the expenditures its government has had for participating in America's wars, bailing out banksters, and lining the pockets of corrupt politicians like Rob Ford.
How is this crack-smoking, drunkard, abusive, sorry excuse for a human being still in public office??