KFC Stops Using Transfat: Because of NYC?

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Blancita

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"KFC announced today that its restaurants nationwide are now serving its classic, finger lickin' good fried chicken with zero grams of trans fat per serving. The zero grams of trans fat menu includes all of KFC's fried chicken products, such as its famous Original Recipe® and Extra Crispy™ chicken, KFC Snacker® sandwiches and potato wedges."

The quote is from the KFC website, but I saw the story all over the cable news networks.

Anyway, many of you may know that New York City recently banned trans fats in all restaurant food. Coincidentally, KFC goes trans fat free a few weeks later. Well KFC wasn't going to stop operating in NYC, and perhaps it did not wish to use better quality oil in NYC and then the rest of the country finds out they still get the disease causing trans fat..that wouldn't go over well, so to me it sort of seems like the banning of trans fats in NYC could've contributed to this. But now that I think of it, I wonder what the other chains are doing?

How do you feel about the NYC ban on trans fats (which has been scientifically proven to be cancer causing, among many evils) in restaurants?
 
How do you feel about the NYC ban on trans fats in restaurants?
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Im a little too old to be told what to do by the government -I'd really prefer to not live in a nanny state. I haven't been in a KFC in years because I prefer real food but I really resent that the government thinks I'm too stupid to make my own decisions.. I'd rather the stores made the choice due to customer demand rather than being forced to by the government.
 
Blancita;246695How do you feel about the NYC ban on trans fats (which has been scientifically proven to be cancer causing said:
I'm 100% in favor of informed, adult consent to making poor, even life/health endangering choices. That's half the fun of finally being a grown-up - you get to decide which risks are worth taking and going for them.

The key factors though are "informed" and "adult"...It surprises me daily that otherwise intelligent, savvy people I know really are clueless about what transfat is and what it does. If restaurants (in NYC and other places) included a plainly worded statement in their menus about the amount of transfat included in various dishes and how serious the health risks were and declined to serve such foods to unaccompanied minors, I'd call it "informed adult consent" and howl in protest at any big brother type ban....but since that ain't gonna happen I think banning the ingredient in restaurants is a needed step.
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I'm wondering if people (general, uninformed people, I mean) are going to think that their food is going to be healthier now, and it's ok to still eat lots of it?

I mean, the type of oil may be a little improved, but deep fried anything is still not good for you.
 
Baking that shit with a magnifying glass in the hot sun won't help make KFC's food 'healthy'. It's still cooked in a vat of boiling grease...

Trendy PR is all this is.
 
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When my husband saw the commercial saying KFC had changed to non-trans-fat, he said "Wow, I guess I can eat all of it I want to now?" I wont let him have any fried foods and certainly not KFC.

I can see that will be most peoples first thought is that now KFC is suddenly healthy when, as someone already said, fried food is not healthy.

Im sure theyll find a way to make people believe its healthy without actually saying so.
 
Blancita said:
How do you feel about the NYC ban on trans fats (which has been scientifically proven to be cancer causing, among many evils) in restaurants?
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If their going to ban trans fats then why not ban cigarettes? Oh that's right, the government makes to much money off of cigs, they don't make much if any from trans fats

None the less, deep frying and other extreme heats their oils will be encounter will lead to oxidation of the unsaturated oil which will lead to Free radical formation(carcinogenic) in the person who ingest these oils. Among other problems that come from the oxidation of these unstable Lipids. what does that mean? It means the food that was drenched in these oxidized oils will still be carcenogenic to the body (cancer "causing").
 
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[Squall];251575 said:
If their going to ban trans fats then why not ban cigarettes? Oh that's right, the government makes to much money off of cigs, they don't make much if any from trans fats
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People choose to purchase cigarettes with full disclosure of the health risks, whereas the dangerous health effects of trans fats are really not generally well known. That's why mothers feed food made of trans fats to their kids. They figure, hey the government allows this to be sold so it can't be that bad. Because government regulates our food most people assume the government has blessed the food. Yes, people know for sure that its fattening, but they dont really know how clear the evidence is of the dangerous health effects of trans fats other than gaining weight.
 
dariqueen said:
I'm wondering if people (general, uninformed people, I mean) are going to think that their food is going to be healthier now, and it's ok to still eat lots of it?

I mean, the type of oil may be a little improved, but deep fried anything is still not good for you.
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Thats exactly my concern as well. Watching the comercial and the husband after hearing from his wife zero trans fats just attacked the bucket and started gobbling down. It was gross.

I hope the public doesn't buy into that crap.
 
Ironman said:
Thats exactly my concern as well. Watching the comercial and the husband after hearing from his wife zero trans fats just attacked the bucket and started gobbling down. It was gross.

I hope the public doesn't buy into that crap.
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hah....
Good luck.

As much as I hate to say it, the "general public" believes everything you tell them for the most part. I am sure a "newer HEALTHIER" KFC has shown record profits since then for being a "caring" company.....

What I wonder is how many of the CEO's and executives getting rich off that crap are actually eating it themselves?

sirant
 
[Squall];251575 said:
If their going to ban trans fats then why not ban cigarettes? Oh that's right, the government makes to much money off of cigs, they don't make much if any from trans fats
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They did in a way. You cant smoke inside any public places, also in Jersey. Im happy about that one as well as the trans fat ban.

Trans fat is the new hot media health topic. Everything everywhere says 0g Trans Fat in its advertisement. People see this and think well it must be healthy then since everyone is removing trans fats.
 
cancer no matter what way

You will start see a rise in colon cancer here shortly because of the low or zero grams trans fats (ZGTF). I worked in an industry that produce foods for restaurants. watching what the oil did to the equipment. The oil has such a high melting point, it would turn into a glob that was virtually impossible to clean. You had to have very hot water 160 degrees or hotter, or an acid chemical to dissolve the stuff. I clings to everyting it hit.
I bet there will be more clogged arteries with this stuff. I bet it will coat the colon so the colon will not be able to absorb the nutrients that our bodies need.
If you eat this stuff finish it off with a hot cup of tea or coffee, to try to flush it out. FAT chance (pun intended)
 
maleficent said:
Im a little too old to be told what to do by the government -I'd really prefer to not live in a nanny state. I haven't been in a KFC in years because I prefer real food but I really resent that the government thinks I'm too stupid to make my own decisions.. I'd rather the stores made the choice due to customer demand rather than being forced to by the government.
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Most people are too stupid to make their own decisions, and therefore the government must intervene.

Surely you wouldn't argue that crack cocaine should be legal because adults want to use it and the government shouldn't interfere?

Anyway, I'd say that as long as I, as a taxpayer, have to foot other people's medicaid, medicare, and other health expenses after they spend years abusing their own body, that I'm glad to see the government stepping up to the plate and making decisions like this for the common good.
 
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