But You Are the Pizza Police
By Andrew C. McCarthy
March 5, 2013 6:33 P.M.

"To find what is wrong with what passes for opposition to Obama-style big government, look no further than this afternoon’s confounding post, “The Pizza Police,” authored by two Beltway Republican leaders, representatives Fred Upton (House Commerce Committee chairman) and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (House Republican Conference chairwoman). It is especially precious to find Representative Upton complaining about the president’s “Washington-knows-best regulatory state” in light of his distinction as co-author of the incandescent-light-bulb ban, his enthusiasm for taxing Americans to underwrite Leviathan’s green-energy scam, his support for government bail-outs of favored private industries, and so on.

The two lawmakers’ dander is up thanks to the FDA’s new menu-labeling rules, promulgated pursuant to Obamacare. These rules compel restaurateurs, including pizza-makers like Domino’s, to disclose calorie counts and other “nutritional information” to consumers. So, are our two irate representatives arguing that the American people are sufficiently adult to make their own food choices without government-mandated advice? Are they contending that, in the unlikely event mandates are warranted, such matters are for state or local governments to decide (with the understanding that if they choose to make doing business too onerous, vendors may choose to do business elsewhere)? Perish the thought.
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Links and more at:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/342...drew-c-mccarthy

Original Articel:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/342...fred-upton#more

I do think nutritional information she be made available. Should it be mandated? No but the consumer should be able to get the information in order to make informed decisions. Seriously, since I stared paying attention to restaurants nutritional information I often choose not to eat out.

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I do think nutritional information she be made available. Should it be mandated? No but the consumer should be able to get the information in order to make informed decisions. Seriously, since I stared paying attention to restaurants nutritional information I often choose not to eat out.

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I believe it is doing just that. Take high fructose corn syrup for example. No mandates are needed to get the companies to start using real sugar again in some products.

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I believe it is doing just that. Take high fructose corn syrup for example. No mandates are needed to get the companies to start using real sugar again in some products.

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The thing is people have to stay on top of issues because the food companies will do whatever they can to make more money like this:

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/aspartame...approval_022013

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The thing is people have to stay on top of issues because the food companies will do whatever they can to make more money like this:

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/aspartame...approval_022013

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