Everything is great in Minneapolis (St. Paul, too)

Things must be, because now the push is on to protect us from trans fats. Now, I understand that trans fats have no real nutritional value and are in fact quite bad for you, but do we need government action for them to go away? Can't we as citizens vote with our feet and eat at establishments who don't use them? Won't doing that solve the problem? In a time of budget crunches, can we afford the additional costs associated with enforcing a ban? Have things gotten better health-wise in places where trans fats have been banned? Has a cost-benefit analysis of something like this been done? Can Minneapolis and/or St. Paul ever not do something that was done in New York, San Francisco, or Portland?

To me, things like this are on the level of when an city council member in Minneapolis tried to ban circuses with animals in 2007. This is silliness and not the business of government to be micromanaging restaurants.