California Menu-Labeling Law Looms

Posted by Baylen on Sep. 2, 2008

skitched-20080902-083514.jpgBay Area restaurants targeted in a slew of robberies. Crazies trying to amputate their own limbs with a butter knife in a Modesto Denny’s.

Apparently California is confident these restaurant-related problems are under wraps, and so it’s moved on to what really matters: mandatory calorie labeling, reports the LA Times:

Some 17,000 chain restaurants around California would have to give patrons calorie information under a measure given final approval Sunday by the state Senate.

If signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the bill by Sen. Alex Padilla, a Pacoima Democrat, would make California the first state to require restaurants to display the calorie counts of their menu offerings.

Senators voted 24-13 for the menu labeling measure, SB 1420, which would take full effect in 2011. Padilla said he believes diners will make healthier food choices if they know how many calories they may consume.

Even if I were to concede that is true–a leap I’m not prepared to make, even if The Economist seems to offer tepid support for its legitimacy–menu labeling is not a question of health. The issue is whether a restaurant and its customers or a government should decide what and how people eat. I’ll take the former. Every time.

Still, I get no say, and the bill looks set to pass. Sensing this, I assume, the state restaurant association is no longer publicly opposing the measure.

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  • tim
    Anyone wants to take bets when the first lawsuit gets filed over a calorie count that is two calories off what was served?
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  • I just hope that the bill by Sen. Alex Padilla would be signed by Governor Schwarzenegger. This will pave the way for other states to require restaurants to display the calorie counts of their menu offerings, hopefully. I'll definitely keep my eyes on this and see where it goes.
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  • This new law may look promising, but it still depends if restaurants would heed to their call in order for it to take action, otherwise it will just be another useless law.
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  • People are amputating themselves?
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