Trans fats to be phased out, FDA says

The FDA is trying to eliminate trans fats from foods as much as possible. Their claim is that trans fats are extremely unhealthy and cause clogged arteries. On the warrants that citizens of the United States want to be healthy. The easy rebuttal is that maybe people want to eat those things and don't care about the effects, they might enjoy the food. There are a combination of fact and value statements throughout the article, with little policy claims. Some examples of fact claims is when the author states that trans fats are unhealthy, that is a widely known fact that very few argue against. The value claims come when they assume people want to get rid of trans fats, it may be the value of the author and the FDA, but not everyone else. Technically the whole thing is a policy claim, because they want to get rid of the trans fats all together, but they call on the nation for other claims. They want to hear the nations policy claims and they gave them 60 days to give any comments. Lastly the credibility of the author is not in question, because it comes from the world famous and well respected Washington Post, and also the ethos of the FDA should not be question because it is a government agency.