Aaron Adams’s Blowhard Blog

From this article at Fox News:

Health officials in New York City are stepping up to the plate to remove trans fats from the menus at local restaurants.

The Board of Health will hold its first public hearing today on a proposal to make New York the first U.S. city to ban restaurants from serving food containing artificial trans fats …

If approved, New York’s ban would only affect restaurants, not grocery stores, and wouldn’t extend beyond the city limits.

But experts said the city’s food service industry, with 24,600 establishments, is so large that any rule change is likely to ripple nationwide.

You gave government the power to tell you where you can smoke. Now they’re going to tell you what you can eat. Give government an inch, and it takes a mile. Those of you on the Centerville city council, those of you who are members of anti-smoking groups, and those of you in Ohio thinking of voting in favor of either issue 4 or 5, are paving the way for increased government micromanagement of your day-to-day life, the culmination of the liberal nanny state. You’re taking power out of the hands of individuals and the free market and placing it in the hands of lawyers, bureaucrats, and the self-proclaimed elite.

I take special delight in pointing this out because several people I’ve spoken with have scoffed at me when I predicted that government would soon expand its tentacles into the “safe food” business, based on the mandate people like the anti-smoking crowd have given them. I ask you to think very, very hard when considering issues 4 and 5 in Ohio, and the power it would give people you wouldn’t voluntarily associate with to decide what’s best for your body, the most important and intimate thing you own.