New York Has No Right to Force Restaurants to Cut Trans Fats
Oct 3, 2006

Irvine, CA--New York's Board of Health has proposed a law to force all restaurants in the city to severely limit the content of trans fats in their food.

"The government has no right to dictate to restaurants what they can or cannot serve, and it has no right to dictate to individuals what they can or cannot eat," said Dr. Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute.

"Individuals should be free to judge for themselves what foods to eat, including if and when to eat foods with trans fats.

"Those who believe that trans fats are unhealthy are free not to eat food that contains them--and free to persuade others not to sell or consume them. They have no right, however, to dictate the recipes of restaurants."

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