Posted on 11/24/2014 10:01:36 PM PST by Olog-hai
Counting your calories will become easier under new government rules requiring chain restaurants, supermarkets, convenience stores—and even movie theaters, amusement parks and vending machines—to post the calorie content of food “clearly and conspicuously” on their menus.
The Food and Drug Administration plans to announce the long-delayed rules on Tuesday. The regulations will apply to businesses with 20 or more locations and they will be given until November 2015 to comply.
The idea is that people may pass on that bacon double cheeseburger at a chain restaurant, hot dog at a gas station or large popcorn at the movie theater if they know that it has hundreds of calories. Beverages are included, and alcohol will be labeled if drinks are listed on the menu. …
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Another useless freedom-robbing “gift” from Obama, Inc.
What a waste of time and money
> Another useless freedom-robbing “gift” from Obama, Inc.
That will be next when the menus have RFID chips that read your chip and ensure that you cannot order over your daily allotment or a fine will be automatically deducted from your credit card. This will of course be after an amendment is added to the “we can’t tell you what’s in it until you pass it” ACA law in order to keep healthcare costs down...
Unless I’m dieting, not much will deter me from eating high-calorie foods when I’m going out to eat. I’m not going out to eat tofu and carrot sticks at a restaurant.
Yep, I didn’t climb all the way to the top of the food chain to eat Tofu.
I was going to post until I read yours. Could not have said it better. Thank you.
Imagine all the wonderful fines companies will have to pay when “consumer groups” claim an offering is actually 15 calories over the listed amount.
McDonalds should say, “Sorry, not worth our while. All stores are closed. All employees are fired. Have a nice day. See you in the next world.”
McDonald’s already has those annoying calories posted on their menus at their drive-thru’s here in Maine. They’ve had them posted for quite some time now.
All it does is make a cluttered series of signs even more cluttered.
Does anyone really drive thru a fast food restaurant looking for low calorie health food?
I wish the stinking government would get the hell out of our lives.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Regardless what FDR’s activist justices wanted everybody to believe about the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers when it wrongly decided Wickard v. Filburn in corrupt Congress’s favor in 1942, these misguided justices wrongly ignored the following. They ignored that the Supreme Court had previouly clarified that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate intrastate commerce.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
And to me, while I agree with this new rule in principle, when the feds start telling restaurants what to put on their menus, that’s unconstitutional federal interference with intrastate commerce.
I wonder if FLOTUS is behind this?
You know, after I posted that I thought, wait a minute ...
So, shows you what good it does, anyway.
Right. In my youth, I could easily go 24 hours before realizing that I hadn't eaten in a while, and of course I was quite thin. Now, and for a long time, the meal times just come up one after the other, but the youthful habit of taking every opportunity to feed persists. What's the point of sitting down to three skimpy meals every day?
Wait until they start requiring the “Certified Free-Range Chicken” and “Holistic Organic Sustainable Carbon Neutral Blessed By Saint Algore Himself” labels, too!
They already have this in Commieforina.
Nobody even notices or cares.
Waste of time, non productive busy work.
Nanny State PING!
So how’s that supposed to work at my local Waffle House, where I custom order my breakfasts, instead of some fast food joint where the customer just orders #3?
Well, I know how it could work. Lots of restaurants are now using pads to take orders. Even a custom order could have the calorie count calculated and presented to the customer.
Not sure anybody would care. Those who are concerned about the calories already have ways to get the information. Those who don’t, don’t.
They’ll have to hire calorie consultants at $45/hr instead of $9/hr waitstaff to calculate your order, text it to Moo for her approval, and inform you you’re not allowed that extra waffle and that you’ve exceeded your monthly allotment of syrup.
Well, well. After Ladybird Johnson went on a crusade to do away with billboards, it looks like they are going to make a comeback—either that, or microprinting is going to be in vogue...
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