This may be silly, but I doubt it is onerous.
How expensive is it to do a calorie check on a bottle of beer?
Once that's done, it shouldn't be that difficult to make a small adjustment to labels to include the calories.
If this is phased in, which I'm sure the lobbyists can successfully lobby for, then companies won't have to throw away any labels they've already printed.
Please someone correct me if this is more complicated than it seems.
I think we should be against this for the right reasons and not because some think-tanker pulled a number out of his backside.
Yes my foolish freeper. First you must contact an “authorized and certified” calorie crony capitalist on the list of the appropriate government agency. Then you must provide samples, your secret recipe, and a very large check. Based upon the samples, if there is no variance that requires extensive and expensive retesting, then you have your approved calorie count to be placed on your bottles. Inspectors and re-evaluations will be made periodically at your expense. If variations are discovered, you will be shut down until you can be retested. Inspection results will be given to government lawyers and product liability lawyers for separate civil fines and action to recover damages for class action suit for “product fraud”.