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Friday, November 2, 2007
Calories as big as price?
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
There’s a food fight going on over whether there should be government regulations requiring restaurants to put calorie and other nutrition information on the menu. One such proposal in New York City asks that calorie numbers be just as easy to see as the price of a dish. The idea is to make people think twice about ordering a 1,000 calorie lunch, which for many people is about half the recommended daily total of calories. New York City was the first place in the U.S. to enact a regulation requiring some restaurants to put calorie information on menus. Since then, other cities and states have considered similar rules. California lawmakers passed a bill similar to New York’s regulation, but it was vetoed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger earlier this month. King County, Wash., which includes Seattle, enacted a menu labeling rule in July. What information would you like to see on restaurant menus? is posting the information on the restaurant’s website good enough?
