{"id":1634,"date":"2006-10-03T09:25:12","date_gmt":"2006-10-03T17:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/10\/a_step_below_the_tobacco_lobby.html"},"modified":"2006-10-03T09:25:12","modified_gmt":"2006-10-03T17:25:12","slug":"a_step_below_th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/a_step_below_th.html","title":{"rendered":"A Step Below The Tobacco Lobby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banning food may be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/if_this_passes.html\">stupid<\/a>, but national ad campaigns aimed at defending trans fats may be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/local\/story\/457827p-385277c.html\">stupider<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A national group opposed to the city&#8217;s proposed ban on trans fats responded yesterday with a vivid commercial that takes aim at the &#8220;food police.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the opening scene, an ice cream is snatched from a child&#8217;s hand. In another, a man getting ready to enjoy a hot dog is crestfallen when an unseen person grabs it and takes it away.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everywhere you turn, someone&#8217;s telling us what we can&#8217;t eat,&#8221; the narrator says.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington-based Center for Consumer Freedom is spending $125,000 to put the commercial in heavy rotation this week on CNN and the Fox News Channel.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Longwell from the center said the spot shows food being snapped from consumers&#8217; hands because &#8220;that is exactly what the New York City Board of Health proposes to do.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Defending the right of people to consume trans fats somehow seems worse than defending smoking . . . dying from Twinkies is <em>so<\/em> much lamer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banning food may be stupid, but national ad campaigns aimed at defending trans fats may be stupider: A national group opposed to the city&#8217;s proposed ban on trans fats responded yesterday with a vivid commercial that takes aim at the &#8220;food police.&#8221; In the opening scene, an ice cream is snatched from a child&#8217;s hand. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everyone_is_to_blame_here"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}