What 2,000 Calories Looks Like (2014)

Re:What 2,000 Calories Looks Like (2014) by chimprich on Thursday September 29, 2016 @02:39PM (#12607755)

If you don't think this is going to have an effect, the cost of this is that calories are going to be presented on a menu which customers can choose to look at or not. I am genuinely bemused as to why anyone would find this offensive.

Do you think alcoholic drinks should be labelled with the percentage of alcohol contained? Should food be labelled with the ingredients? Should you be allowed to know if your food contains nuts? And so on.

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Re:What 2,000 Calories Looks Like (2014) by nsxwolf on Thursday September 29, 2016 @03:00PM (#12607908)

Alcoholic drinks aren't universally labeled, and even when they are the value is dubious. You can see a proof number on liquor bottles but that tells you nothing about its effects on your physiology. You still have to educate yourself.

You can argue a compelling interest for labeling food allergens, because they can kill people almost immediately. Calories can't.

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