Daily news reports inundate the public with a lot of the the-sky-is-falling rhetoric about Americans’ weight and health. And day after day, the Center for Consumer Freedom fights tirelessly to balance that hype with a healthy dose of facts and common sense. Today, the Chicago Tribune featured CCF’s evenhanded point of view on a very unbalanced topic, menu-labeling mandates:
Though nutrition activists claim that the hotly-contested ordinance would prevent consumers from gaining millions of pounds each year, they’ve never checked to see if covering menus with calorie-counts actually influences consumers to eat less. No one has.