According to a recent article at The Wall Street journal,
“Regulators’ appetite for calorie counts is about to extend beyond restaurants to thousands of other places that offer food, including airplanes, movie theaters and convenience stores”
Convenience Stores? As if proper labeling will help consumers choose between glazed donuts, chocolate glazed donuts or bagels with cream cheese at 6:00 am in the morning.
Of course, what is not mentioned is the fact that larger convenience store chains can more easily label their calories then smaller mom-and-pop stores. Therefore, even if the consumers gain slightly, the large chains gain more.
“Everybody’s going to be a little bit better informed, and that’s a good thing,’ said Lou Sheetz, executive vice president at Sheetz Inc., an Altoona, Pa., convenience store chain with 380 outlets in six states. The chain is preparing to post calorie information at kiosks where customers order food. ‘In all likelihood, it’s going to have a negative impact on those items that had a higher calorie count than people thought,’ said Mr. Sheetz. But that will be offset by higher sales of healthier items, he predicted.”
So what’s next on the Food Labeling Act we ask, the nutritional information of bugs at PetCo?
Nutrition Information for: Grasshopper
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| Calories 82.24 Calories from Fat 16.15 |
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I thought that was a joke until I clicked the link… wow.
Sweet sweet booze.
Bagels with cream cheese, not “beagles”.
Thanks for catching that. I seriously need to stop relying on spell check
As usual, government is the big club of choice, since you can get ten dollars’ worth of competition-busting for every dollar you spend on bribery. So students, what’s the solution to this? If you answered “more regulation”, check over your work carefully.
BTW, a typo: “more easily label their calories then smaller mom-and-pop stores”
Increased regulations always favor the big organizations over the small, since they have the resources to follow and comply, no matter how non-productive the regulation – like listing the nutritional value of alcoholic drinks (always chosen on the basis of nutritional value, of course).
I personally love having access to this kind of information, but it shouldn’t be required. I will gladly support a business that voluntarily makes this info available.
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