Forbes: Obamacare's Restaurant Calorie-Label Mandate Is A Complete Mess
Do you mean to say that the government has a made a right hash out of a mandated program? That's never, ever happened before, has it?
In reality-land, where I am forced to dwell, there are approximately 159,000 websites dedicated to providing the calorie count for the food we consume, from "fast food" to its slower cousins prepared in the kitchen. I even have a wristband device that helps me track my own consumption. Anyone who wants to know the calories involved in their meal may find the information in fewer than thirty seconds. If they have an internet-equipped phone, they may do so at the restaurant while they're eating. A couple of sites even let you take a photo of the meal and deduce its caloric content from that. This modern age, eh?
There is no need for a mandate. Those who wish to know the caloric count of their meal may find it easily; those who don't care will continue to be apathetic. All this does is create more headaches for franchisees and small business owners. Well, and it causes the rather sad bits of human material that make up our political class to feel a sense of power over the citizenry, which I suspect is the real reason behind many onerous laws.
Such is the world. Thank God we are of the Kingdom.