Trans Fats

Topic: Find an example in the news media to discuss the dilemma of balancing the public’s right to know with a person’s right to privacy.

I chose this video on trans fats in foods.

The dilemma of balancing the public's right to know with a company's privacy in this video is consumers of food, which I'm assuming is everyone, and the food industry. Dr. Walter Willett the Chair of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health explains that these trans fats are poison and need to be taken out of the human diet. They can be found in shortenings, butters, and more. Since 2003 they have been able to cut down trans fats in processed foods by 80% but there is still a long way to go. Labeling itself is not enough, as he discusses in the video, because there are foods like in restaurants that cannot be labeled. I believe that the FDA should create a law or rule that all resaurants should have to label products with trans fat in them on the menus. This should help speed up the goal of getting rid of all trans fats in the next three years.