"But calorie labeling does little good if no one cares enough to read the information."

Obamacare Calorie-Labeling Regs a Nightmare for Small Business

by
RICK MORAN

"Let’s face it. People shouldn’t be eating a lot of fatty foods. And as far as nutrition, it doesn’t get much worse than a big hamburger or pizza chain. But calorie labeling does little good if no one cares enough to read the information. The proper response to obesity is consumer education. And plastering a store or restaurant with confusing and mostly useless information about a meal doesn’t contribute to that goal.

The kind of labeling the FDA wants can be put into a book that consumers can ask for, or better yet, placed online. That would be far less burdensome — and less expensive — than the nanny state response by the FDA of calorie labeling."