Posted on 05/27/2016 11:37:38 AM PDT by Olog-hai
New York City can enforce a rule requiring chain restaurants to post warnings on menu items high in sodium, a New York appeals court ruled on Thursday.
In February, a New York state judge upheld the rule, knocking down a challenge by the National Restaurant Association. But the Appellate Division, First Department, temporarily stopped New York City from enforcing it. The court lifted has now lifted that interim order.
The rule, believed to be the first of its kind in the United States, requires city restaurants with 15 or more locations nationwide to post a salt shaker encased in a black triangle as a warning next to menu items with more than 2,300 milligrams of sodium, the daily limit recommended by the federal government.
Violators will be subject to $200 fines. A spokesman said the city would begin enforcement on June 6. …
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NYC has become a city of BS
If I had a restaurant, and if permitted, I would put the logo next to every menu item, rather than worry about being fined for leaving it off somewhere.
As a customer, I would ignore the silly logo. If you want to eat “healthy”, you eat at home. I eat out to enjoy the total experience, and I don’t expect a special dinner to meet the nutritional standards for an average meal. This silly increase in nanny government is additional proof that it’s time to shrink government at all levels - federal, state, and local.
Yes, but I support their right to enact BS legislation.
I don’t understand on what grounds this was challenged.
Now that they have solved and prevented all crime, they can turn their attention to the really important things concerning the city.
As for health — wait until they have to put warning signs next to items that have too little salt:
Take Low-Salt Advice With a Grain of You Know What
They’re required to tell how much salt is in the food. That’s great! It helps me determine how much more salt I’ll need.
Does the warning sticker or logo or whatever have to be accurate?
Can the restaurant simply post a single warning saying something like, “every food item on this menu might include up to a zillion pounds of salt.”
Why is that Republicans can never seem to take advantage of this? Or is it that voters actually do like this sorta thing?
-—...to post a salt shaker encased in a black triangle as a warning...-—
Isn’t that...RACIST??
Why would any sane person want to live in a city where big government has its nose in everything You do, eat, drink,, etc.? I expect soon NY women will be required tattooed warning signs next to their vaginas and men will have to get one on their Johnson. Probably every oriface will have to have one. This is exactly the kind of insanity I am hoping Trump will put an end to.
Such laws make absolutely ZERO difference to people. They’ll eat what they want; those who care about salt intake don’t need to be told.
If the majority of New Yorkers want to enslave themselves to their State, fine, as long as they let those who don’t want that to leave, and they leave the rest of us alone.
Warning! Golden showers are high in saltt and may result in elevated blood pressure, death, and a terrible smell.
Not good enough.
It’s insane that anyone can walk into a store and buy all the salt they want.
Salt sales background checks, a waiting period and a national registry of buyers/sellers are indicated.
Control the food, control the people. See Venezuela.
I believe they are doing all this in order to reduce the city population size.
Not kidding.
I ended up in the hospital the end of March. My sodium, potassium and magnesium levels were all too low. Started feeling crappy, shaky, weak, headache, vision blurred, etc. My doctor didn’t find the problem with the bloodwork he’d ordered, so after two weeks, I went to the emergency room. They admitted me right away. They had me on IV’s, and mega doses of potassium and magnesium for 2 1/2 days.
Your golden showers are now legal on the streets of nyc, too ( see today’s news cycle) Nyc — “the city that knows how “— to piss on the sidewalk
If Trump, as the next POTUS, does nothing to address the increasing attempt at controlling areas of our lives that government has no legitimate right or obligation to control there is going to be war!
Whether The Donald realizes it or not he is awakening the screwed over masses of the productive law abiding part of our country. Look around...listen too! Trump as candidate is the peaceful alternative to change!
People are talking to each other....YOU MEAN I’M NOT ALONE?
Drip...Drip...Drip. That’s the sound of personal freedom being drained away by big government.
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