In today’s society, many people are surprised to see how many calories are in different foods such as muffins and a raspberry scone from Starbucks. In New York, a judge struck down the“ New York City’s first calorie labeling law.” This law would only apply to fast food restaurants or restaurants with 15 or more outlets nationwide. The law says that, you need to label how many calories are in the types of food they serve. Many restaurants, and coffee shops like Starbucks have a raspberry scone with 470 calories in it, and 610-calorie cookies. Many people are finding out the foods they thought were healthy, were not. At T.G.I.Friday’s a chicken salad, with pecans, mandarin oranges, dried cranberries, and celery have 1,360 calories. At the end of the day, may people aren’t very happy with the labeling because, “it discourages them from ordering what they want,” says a New Yorker.
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This will hopfully have a good impact in the long run. Who cares if "it discourages them from ordering what they want". People need to be aware of what they put in their body. If i was the judge i would of passed this law a long time ago.
ReplyDeletethis is like jonnys and i do not think that restaurants will like this because if it does discourage people from eating something there sales may drop, but in the long run i do not think this will work people will keep eating what they have been eating like its not big deal, because it really isnt
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with this law and I think it should be a law in more cities. If people knew how many calories they eat it would help them to not gain weight and perhaps it would lower the obesity weight in the United States.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the law but i do not think that it will help with people slowing down or eat less calories of foods that they love. People will eat what they want even if it is bad. Everybody in the world eats something bad that they know has high calories.
ReplyDeleteI hope this can help encourage people to make better decisions when it comes to food. I hope it scares them that something like coffee cake is almost 400 Calories
ReplyDeleteThis is a great post!! Hopefully, within the years, this rule will apply to all of the states in the America. This way we will not be the most obese country in the world. However, if this started up, many restaurants could be out of business. In example: McDonalds.
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