Land of the Free!

So New York wants to follow Chicago's nanny-state lead and ban restaurants from using trans fats in their cooking. That Stallone movie Demolition Man is looking less far-fetched every year. Paraphrasing Sandra Bullock's character- "Alcohol, tobacco, butter, salt, foul language and sex have been determined to be bad for you and therefore, illegal."

Why does government feel the need to interfere in our most basic choices?