Powerful Chicago Alderman wants trans-fatty oils off the menu

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

Chicago restaurants already prohibited from selling foie gras would be forced to start cooking healthy -- without oils containing trans fats linked to obesity, stroke and heart disease -- under a crackdown proposed Wednesday by the City Council's most powerful alderman.

To the ridicule of Mayor Daley, Finance Committee Chairman Edward M. Burke (14th) followed through on a promise to make Chicago the first big city in the nation to ban restaurants from using oils containing artificial trans fats in food preparation.

Daley said a city known around the world for its eclectic assortment of ethnic foods would be reduced to a diet of carrots if Burke had his way.

North Carolina only state with trans fat ban

After Mayor Daley, Ed Burke is the second most powerful man in Northern Illinois.Burke slates all the judges in Cook County.Obviously, there's little that Burke doesn't feel the government can regulate.The Nanny State lives in Chicago.