If I owned McD's, I would post one sign in front of every counter ...
"If you have to ask about calories, you should not be in here anyway. Leave now!"
Then I'd tell the lawyers, politicians, judges, and all the other anti-Anerican slime-pits where they could stick their opinions.
They couldn't get me without a fight to the end.
Our metabolisms are "tuned" to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle. You might eat on Monday and not again for a week. In such circumstances, slow metabolisms (like mine) were a survival benefit. In the world of supermarkets, they are not.
Similarly, humans evolved to seek foods rich in fats, calories, and salt, and sugar. It is no mistake that these things taste good to us and that we crave them: they meant survival in the neolithic.
Our bodies have not caught up with our technology or culture. Give it another 100,000 years, maybe.
--Boris