tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537995.post115939722741229217..comments2023-10-29T10:54:58.681-04:00Comments on Vox Baby: Trans Fat Tradeable PermitsAndrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13514024573333057559noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537995.post-27591805230233724772007-01-23T07:37:00.001-05:002007-01-23T07:37:00.001-05:00The Holy Grail of Donuts...the Low Fat Donut
Forge...The Holy Grail of Donuts...the Low Fat Donut<br />Forget the ridiculous hype on the new zero trans fat donuts out there.<br />You should do a story about Holey Donuts!, based out of Brooklyn. They<br />are Ultra Low Fat, Zero Trans Fats and FABULOUS. Zone Diet even buys<br />from them. http://www.holeydonuts.net/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537995.post-20345210406822911702007-01-23T07:37:00.000-05:002007-01-23T07:37:00.000-05:00The Holy Grail of Donuts...the Low Fat Donut
Forge...The Holy Grail of Donuts...the Low Fat Donut<br />Forget the ridiculous hype on the new zero trans fat donuts out there.<br />You should do a story about Holey Donuts!, based out of Brooklyn. They<br />are Ultra Low Fat, Zero Trans Fats and FABULOUS. Zone Diet even buys<br />from them. http://www.holeydonuts.net/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537995.post-29122990516484316942007-01-12T21:39:00.000-05:002007-01-12T21:39:00.000-05:00Low Fat Donuts discovered
Holey Donuts!(tm) Ultra...Low Fat Donuts discovered <br />Holey Donuts!(tm) Ultra Low Fat Gourmet Donuts<br />New York, NY -- JAN 04 , 2007 – The low-fat donut has been the Holy Grail of the food industry. Food companies have been able to take most of the fat out of everything from cheese to Twinkies, but no one has succeeded in designing a marketable donut that dips below 4 grams of fat per serving before now.<br />HoleyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537995.post-1161022638811101712006-10-16T14:17:00.000-04:002006-10-16T14:17:00.000-04:00What about a fat tax with the idea that consumers ...What about a fat tax with the idea that consumers pay the true cost of the good to society. The proceeds from the fat tax could go directly to the health care budget (of course I live in Canada where the government pays most of the health care bills). The basic idea is that we internalize the external health care costs to the consumer and all that cheap junk food will then start to reflect it's Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537995.post-1159820645105042902006-10-02T16:24:00.000-04:002006-10-02T16:24:00.000-04:00Interesting idea. While I support efforts to reduc...Interesting idea. While I support efforts to reduce restaurants' use of trans fats (my father's a cardiologist), the extent to which restricting restaurants' use of trans fats will result in their selling healthier foods is unclear. The restaurants in question may very well substitute other unhealthy fats (palm kernel oil, anyone?) for trans fats, the result being that the regulation would Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537995.post-1159551631134394492006-09-29T13:40:00.000-04:002006-09-29T13:40:00.000-04:00Looking back at my original comment, I realize tha...Looking back at my original comment, I realize that I wasn't very clear.<BR/><BR/>My point is that all trans fats are not created equal. One gram of the stuff at Burger King does not represent nearly the same negative externality as that same gram at, say, Arezzo.<BR/><BR/>This is not--I repeat, NOT--analagous to a carbon tax or gasoline tax. In those instances, one unit of emissions from one Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537995.post-1159491534704786932006-09-28T20:58:00.000-04:002006-09-28T20:58:00.000-04:00Interesting approach but how would you publicly re...Interesting approach but how would you publicly regulate trans fats? I don't see how it could be done...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537995.post-1159484314698598052006-09-28T18:58:00.000-04:002006-09-28T18:58:00.000-04:00The city is imposing a quota on trans fats--allowi...The city is imposing a quota on trans fats--allowing restaurants to sell the room under their quota requires no additional information. Restaurants use the same methods of reducing trans fat usage as they would under the quota, only now, they can use the most efficient methods to a greater extent, because low-cost users reduce more.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13514024573333057559noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8537995.post-1159446273708466812006-09-28T08:24:00.000-04:002006-09-28T08:24:00.000-04:00It seems to me that the thinking beyond such a sys...It seems to me that the thinking beyond such a system assumes that the unpriced cost of consuming a marginal unit of hydrogenated oil is equal across food groups. For example, even though the oil that goes into the french fries at McDonald's and the oil for upscale restaurants probably costs the same in the marketplace, the cost of getting rid of that oil is probably much larger than it is for Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com