Trans fats, it turns out, are not male fats that dress up as female fats. They are, according to Wikipedia, "a type of unsaturated fat with trans isomer fatty acid(s)." That is, I think you'll agree, much less interesting. And it's why I yawned when this release came across my desk explaining that the McGuinty government is going to ban trans fats in schools.
Crisco, the infallible Wikipedia tells me, first commercialized trans fats in 1911. For the past hundreds years, we've all been getting fat on the stuff and giving ourselves heart disease. It's practically a tradition now, but McGuinty wants to stop it.
His ban is probably a good idea. It won't stop high school students from ingesting trans fats, and it certainly won't stop fat people from becoming fat, but it will stop the government from helping high school students become fat. Now the government can blame the people for becoming fat and sick drains on our health care system.
It's like the junk food ban in schools - kids will steal eat junk food, just not from vending machines in the schools. Instead, they will have to walk to convenience stores, which alone will keep them from becoming fat and sick.
Ban on, McGuinty. Ban on.