NYC's calories-on-menus law upheld

AP via SFGate ^ | 4/16/8 | COLLEEN LONG, Associated Press Writer

[MEGoody]

And where do they get these figures??

They pull them out of their hind quarters.

[untrained skeptic]

I suspect it is based on the size of the chain.

The costs of determining the calorie count for the items on the menu is spread out among all the restaurants in the chain.

The law places a higher burden on single restaurants and small chains than it does on large ones.

[kitkat]

***Why not just give the businesses that volunteer to do so a tax cut.***

How true.

It costs the restaurants more to decide how many calories are in each dish, and still more to print up the information for the customers.

[kublia khan]

Just another liberal assault on big business. Nothing to see here move along.

[OeOeO]

I think all courts should post a list of a judge’s political patrons,political donations and past rulings. Just to be fair.

[OeOeO]

Let the board of health weigh the list of calories, they seem to have time on their hands. Or better yet mandate that restaurants offer a uniform diet of gruel.

[mountainbunny]

“New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene believes the regulation, which takes effect Monday, will prevent 130,000 New Yorkers from becoming obese and will stop another 30,000 from developing diabetes over the next five years. “

And where do they get these figures?

They make them up.

HTH

[SmithL]

I think all courts should post a list of a judge’s political patrons,political donations and past rulings. Just to be fair.

...it seems reasonable to expect that some consumers will use the information disclosed

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Between 86.7% and 92.4% of all statistics you read in the MSM, or on the Internet are just made up on the spot.

[Alouette]

Do you think they are going to require a registration and waiting period for Cuisinarts and Kitchen Aids?

Viking—that’s the Mossberg of mixers.

[William Tell]

Isn't it lucky that our Founders didn't bother to write an amendment along the lines of: "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of the people to buy or sell food."

I'm sure they would have recognized that there is no right to buy or sell food. If the government decides it is in the interests of the people, all food sales shall be halted. Every single person that I know of who has died, ate food at some time in their lives. It's very dangerous stuff.

[microgood]

If New York City government does something, that automatically makes it a bad idea.