Food Police to Require Menus to Show Calories of Items

Politico:  “Buried deep in the House health care bill is a provision, likely to raise nanny-state hackles, requiring fast-food chains and vending machine owners to notify customers of calorie counts — by conspicuously posting nutritional information on menus or machines.  The provision — Section 2572 — requires retail food establishments ‘part of a chain with 20 or more locations’ to list calorie counts ‘on the menu board including a drive-through board,’ . . . .  A ‘vending machine operator shall provide a sign in close proximity to each article of food or the selection button’ that includes similar data.'”