Sure, if your goal is to isolate the same exact chemical. However, the goal of artificial flavoring is merely to taste similar, not achieve chemical parity with natural flavorings.

But how, oh how will I ever direct people to this article without the use of a button??

Right, and we should let tobacco companies sell cigarettes to kids. After all, if they didn't want them, they wouldn't buy them, right?

I think their point is that they would have had zero say in the outcome anyway, and this way the public can be aware of that.

Except that it is still used by vast swathes of the industry as a cheaper alternative with a longer shelf life that very few people know about. Heart disease kills more people in the US than any other single cause, and the continued use of trans-fats by the industry (again, just to cut costs) significantly contributes to this.

Okay, the word "was" was in there pretty subtly. Regardless, the facts are pretty clear on trans-fat now, they are more harmful than and as equally tasty as saturated fats, and the only benefit of allowing their sale goes to cost-cutting food producers who'd prefer their customers remain unaware they use them. But, I suppose I see your point.

Uh, the article you linked to explains all about the ill effects of trans fats, including quotes such as "Most scientific research shows that even trace amounts can be harmful to health." Maybe you should read what you link to first next time. Also I suggest you read up on trans-fats!

There is no reason to want to consume trans-fat. It holds roughly the same taste and texture as saturated fats, but cannot be broken down easily by the body, remaining in the blood stream for quite a long time.

If you want healthier but less tasty and more runny fats, eat unsaturated fats (vegetable oils) - if you want less healthy but more tasty, thick fats, eat saturated fats (animal fats). If you want to try and save money by trying to morph unsaturated fats into saturated fats and wind up with something that will kill you, eat trans-fats.

Trans fats are an unwanted biproduct of hydrogenation, and are a fat which humans do not have an enzyme to easily break down. This should directly reduce this incidence of heart disease, and is good news for everyone except cost-cutting food producers.

North Korea provided internet access for foreigners?

Right, this isn't a treaty, it's the president's authority to "fast-track" trade bills (like the TPP, TTIP and newly-revealed TiSA) past congress that was shot down.

Adultery is not a crime because the supreme court has long held that activities undertaken entirely within one's private home cannot be suitably regulated, as a violation of privacy would be necessary to enforce them. This is the reason given by the court for legalizing sodomy as well.

They'll replace everything, then one person will plug in their phone over USB to put some emails on their new workstation and it'll begin all over again.

So, you're saying that both of these (different) models were accurate (curious how you'd know) but that the data they were operating on was faulty. A good reminder to ignore ACs!

It's interesting to see current reactions to what is essentially the new SOPA/PIPA/CISPA (plus a boatload of other "free trade" inequities). It seems like the low profile TPP negotiations have succeeded in keeping down the public uproar.

This is the same organization that ran the 2012 internet blackout to protest SOPA, yet somehow it seems that if people had been unable to post about the internet blackout in the very days leading up to it, there might have been a bit more indignation than we have today.