A Step Below The Tobacco Lobby

Banning food may be stupid, but national ad campaigns aimed at defending trans fats may be stupider:

A national group opposed to the city’s proposed ban on trans fats responded yesterday with a vivid commercial that takes aim at the “food police.”

In the opening scene, an ice cream is snatched from a child’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.

“Everywhere you turn, someone’s telling us what we can’t eat,” the narrator says.

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.

Sarah Longwell from the center said the spot shows food being snapped from consumers’ hands because “that is exactly what the New York City Board of Health proposes to do.”

Defending the right of people to consume trans fats somehow seems worse than defending smoking . . . dying from Twinkies is so much lamer!