Burdening Small Business with Calorie Counts

Burdening Small Business with Calorie Counts

Leave it to politicians to impose calorie counts on small business. Why not? It’s the way politicians operate in their never-ending quest for publicity.

It’s lousy science. It’s rotten for business, especially in a deep recession. But it helps show the politicos are earning their keep.

It’s tough enough to place the calorie-count burden on Big Business but the effort goes too far with the little guys. The whole program is a farce because It’s simply unscientific.

To do the test the sample must be weighed very precisely. But the portions cannot always be accurate. The tests themselves are not accurate on a small scale. So the numbers you get are always off.

Every idiot knows a hamburger with lots of fatty meat, topped with fatty cheese has too much calories. That skim milk has less fat and calories than 4% full milk. Look up charts for your menu at home. But why bother small business people to keep track of what is impossible to do.