by RhinoRalph

Created on: January 20, 2011

It is sad but it seems we are still children waiting for daddy government to do things for us. Why don't we ban it if we know it is bad for us? We keep giving more power to government and they will take it to our disadvantage. Let government do its job according to its job description and we do ours. The only thing we need government to do is (and I am not very convinced either) to have the food industries write the ingredients on a label for each product and we make the decision.

Some of us have come to believe that trans fats are bad for us and that is perfectly fine. I have come to the same conclusion. I have learned that the more natural we eat the better. Some people just don’t care and they want to be left alone. Who are we to force people to do what we think is best for them? Isn’t it a little arrogant? I think is more than a little. The only good thing we the private sector can do are to publish science findings on the damage trans fats can do to our bodies.

It is dangerous to continue having government to force people into things we are supposed to do ourselves. We should be responsible with our own bodies but it is each individual responsibility to educate them on what is best for them if that is what they want. The more freedom we have the more we learn to make better decisions. Politicians usually don’t make decisions based on common sense and knowledge. If there is a company that offers them money for re-election so they can legislate in their favor, they will in most cases do it. Trans fats banning seems to be a right thing to do but it will continue setting the stage for more banning on other things in which government will be wrong. The only wrong thing I see is, who is doing the banning. We most do the banning. Besides, many politicians eat trans fats themselves and they don’t care.

Life is about choices and people that make better choices will have better results. In the process people grow up in knowledge. But they have to be given the opportunity to make mistakes and learn from it. We shouldn’t be trusted as if we are little children. Even doctors are not in agreement regarding nutrition. Why then are we going to have politicians choose what is good for us if they don’t even known what is good for them? The FDA is a political Agency. If it is run through government, it is political. I rather have different private associations competing with each other for the truth where there is no personal interest except trying to find the truth on nutrition but we still deciding what is good for us if we are interested in the truth. Again, freedom is the only environment where the truth can come up so we can choose if we want it.

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