Caught up in The Fable I watch The Tower grow. Five Year Plans and New Deals, wrapped in golden chains
Posted on 11/28/2014 10:21:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Lyle Denniston, the National Constitution Center’s constitutional literacy adviser, tackles a weighty issue: the FDA’s constitutional ability to mandate calorie counts on restaurant menus nationwide.
“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today finalized…rules requiring that calorie information be listed on menus and menu boards in chain restaurants [and] similar retail food establishments….The menu labeling final rule applies to restaurants and similar retail food establishments if they are part of a chain of 20 or more locations, doing business under the same name and offering for sale substantially the same menu items. Covered food establishments will be required to clearly and conspicuously display calorie information for standard items on menus and menu boards, next to the name or price of the item. Seasonal menu items offered for sale as temporary menu items, daily specials and condiments for general use typically available on a counter or table are exempt from the labeling requirements.”
– Excerpt from a public announcement by the FDA on November 25, describing new rules that require restaurant chains to tell their customers about the calories they are consuming. On the same day, EPA also put out new rules for calorie counts on food packages sold by vending machines. Congress in 2010 had ordered the EPA to write all of those rules as part of the new federal health care law, the Affordable Care Act.
WE CHECKED THE CONSTITUTION, AND…
Chances are, the early American generation that started the tradition of a hopefully bounteous Thanksgiving dinner – and wrote a new Constitution to govern the nation – had no idea that, one day, there would be an “obesity epidemic” that the government would feel obliged to stop....
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Nope, nothing about food, drugs, or environment.
Those are properly police functions of the States.
/johnny
yes, but tyranny has its own rules and needs —
First, rules do not apply to the gov’t
Second, the gov’t needs healthy slaves (this same thing was noted by European press during the 1930s when comparing the average young German with his/her English counterpart).
I checked my state constitution and there is nothing in there about food, drugs or the environment either.
Another problem of communism.
Ditch government involvement in insurance and health care. Their involvement is the problem. The New Deal is nothing but golden chains.
If you owned a chain of 19 restaurants would you open another?
No.
there is no constitution any more, don’t ya know?
If I owned a 19 restaurant chain I’d be sitting in a beach chair in the Philippines ordering a massage and a Mai Tai.
Why don't the restaurants just post some bogus calorie content, then tell the scum sucking dirt bags in government to come in and prove them wrong? This government really sucks.
I would do the same thing.
:-)
So that's why they're so heavy.
Constitution Check: Does the government have the guns to back up their claim that they have the authority to write restaurant menus?
Fixed that: The answer is now obviously in the affirmative.
Bureaucrats + Courts + Federal Enforcers = Standing Army.
And you would not own them for long. The foxes would not only steal the eggs but also eat the hens........
And yet we have the FDA, DEA, and EPA. The principle has been ceded. Game over.
NO
Does the government have the authority to write restaurant menus?
Of course they do, it is listed right before the clause that allows the Government to Restrict a Persons Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
Funny that Yahoo News would ask a silly question considering they have been all about Big Government FOREVER.
I challenge the White house to publish a picture of the food Mooch and Barry eat every day.
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