USA Today columnist Walter Shapiro has heard just about enough from the Nanny Culture. Taking note of recent efforts by the federal food-label squad, he asks: “Have we as a nation gone amok with these health warnings?” Serious health warnings, he says, “are cheapened when restaurants and food stores are papered with dictates from the Nanny State. And because the menu warnings don’t require restaurants to actually do anything, they represent nothing more than feel-good regulation.”
