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NYC’s ban on trans-fats in restaurants, set to start in July, is intended to force food establishments to serve healthier food. On the other hand, greater scale replacement of large amounts of bad oils with equivalent supplies of healthier alternatives may result in stiffer competition for farm space with the alternative fuel industry. Farmers will have to choose how to allocate their farm acreage between growing corn, which is used in production of ethanol, and growing soybean, a crop used in production of healthier oils.