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On pizza regulations, Trump slices differently than his own FDA commissioner
www.washingtonexaminer.com ^ | April 24, 2018 12:00 AM | by Jim Gerety

Posted on 04/24/2018 10:45:43 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: DannyTN

Every minute and dollar he is forced to spend on that calorie label hurts his business.
If you are that worried about your health here’s a hot tip, you shouldn’t be eating at Dominos.


41 posted on 04/24/2018 12:17:09 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: DannyTN

“...the costs of the rule to my employees and me could be excessive, with the greatest beneficiaries of these costs being trial lawyers. This is because Gottlieb’s rule exposes my employees and me to civil and criminal penalties of up to one year in prison and/or a $100,000 fine for inadvertent violations.”

I don’t think it will be at all ‘burdensome’ for some trial attorney with an obese client to convince a jury that the ‘standard’ pizza info is inadequate & their poor fat client is a victim.


42 posted on 04/24/2018 12:22:06 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: PapaBear3625

Congress got us into the WTO, Congress can get us out.


43 posted on 04/24/2018 12:24:38 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: PapaBear3625

Congress got us into the WTO, Congress can get us out.


44 posted on 04/24/2018 12:25:03 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Twotone

If he puts that his pizza only has 200 calories and it really has 5000 then yeah, he probably should go to prison and let the “fat client” own the restaurant.

If he is off by 25%, I doubt your fat client has a leg to stand on.


45 posted on 04/24/2018 12:28:43 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: Lurker
Then let the market provide labels of their own volition for those like you who want them. Otherwise why don’t you get behind the founder of this esteemed forum and work to return Fedziilla to the Constitutional prison our Founders designed for it.

Supporting an amendment to the constitution, it seems to me, is very consistent with the principles of the constitution, given that the process is in that document itself. Of course in today's world that actual process is essentially impossible. In fact, the only practical way to change the constitution now is to get some judge to make some stuff up and say it's in the constitution. E.g. Roe V Wade. That I do not support at all.

46 posted on 04/24/2018 12:33:45 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Russians couldnt have done a better job destroying sacred American institutions than Democrats have)
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To: dfwgator

I guess calzone and boli people like me are non-pizza consumers?


47 posted on 04/24/2018 12:37:25 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: pepsi_junkie

“Supporting an amendment to the constitution, it seems to me, is very consistent with the principles of the constitution, given that the process is in that document itself.”

I agree.

L


48 posted on 04/24/2018 12:42:43 PM PDT by Lurker (President Trump isn't our last chance. President Trump is THEIR last chance.)
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To: Red Badger

Simple enough for Domino’s to calculate all those combinations and send them out on 3x4 index cards to all their franchises to be taped on the menu wall.


49 posted on 04/24/2018 12:56:16 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: DannyTN

That doesn’t mean you won’t be killed off by lawfare, spending time & resources fighting off this kind of nonsense.

Trump should’ve done the obvious thing: instruct EVERY new cabinet member to undo EVERYTHING Zero did in the last 8 years. Period.


50 posted on 04/24/2018 12:58:09 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: Mariner

...guns...


51 posted on 04/24/2018 1:13:53 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: DannyTN
I don’t think it’s all that burdensome.

Wow. You really haven't dealt with regulatory law in a business, have you? You haven't had tin-pot-dictator inspectors threatening to shut you down, have you?

People like you that cheer burdensome regulations are bringing this country down.

52 posted on 04/24/2018 1:15:48 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Enjoy the decline of the American empire.)
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To: Red Badger

I suppose they could create a list of all their individual toppings, showing the average calorie count for that topping on each size of pizza they offer. Then people could do the math themselves...

...oh, wait, I said “do the math themselves”. Never mind.

Better to just sue the FDA in federal court for overstepping its authority; or lobby president Trump to gut the requirement.


53 posted on 04/24/2018 1:18:50 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Trillian

Did you compute the number of calories per slice and then post the results in your kitchen and/or dining room?

If not, you may have violated federal law!

;-)


54 posted on 04/24/2018 1:23:14 PM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Red Badger

Trying to pin down and quantify the caloric content of any given pizza combination would be prohibitively expensive, and would risk a mom and pop operation being fined out of existence for not weighing their ingredients down to the fraction of a gram.

This whole mandate just wreaks of lawfare and eliminating competition through lobbyist lawfare from large fast food chains.

Forget for a moment what you think about any given pizza or pizzeria, this is all certain groups about using the government to eliminate their competition.


55 posted on 04/24/2018 1:27:38 PM PDT by factoryrat (We are the producers, the creators. Grow it, mine it, build it. MAGA!)
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To: plain talk

I’m more concerned that the military is continuing to slavishly implement Obama era policies.


56 posted on 04/24/2018 1:37:40 PM PDT by Wyrd bið ful aræd (Flag burners can go screw -- I'm mighty PROUD of that ragged old flag)
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To: WayneS

Uh oh! My family just might turn me in ;)
I have never counted calories in my whole life at home or at a restaurant.


57 posted on 04/24/2018 1:40:15 PM PDT by Trillian
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To: backwoods-engineer

Yes I have, more than you can imagine.

And I hardly think making major chains reveal the calories in their pizza is going to bring America down.


58 posted on 04/24/2018 1:51:54 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

Generally speaking, if it is a government rule, it is burdensome. The less government, the less the burden. And the more freedom. Basic conservative thinking.


59 posted on 04/24/2018 1:55:10 PM PDT by Tudorfly (All things are possible within the will of God.)
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To: Tudorfly

I’m for less government in most cases, but not all cases.

But no government = Somali. Free market and capitalism doesn’t exist where there are no rules.

Government sets the rules of the marketplace. Government sets the rules of international trade.

Food is one area where I and many other consumers want the health information and country of origin readily available.


60 posted on 04/24/2018 2:15:06 PM PDT by DannyTN
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