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Article: Food wars
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- August 11, 2009
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YOUR LIFESTYLE: A FOOD fight is brewing over legislation in
Washington DC that would require restaurants to post calories on
menus, writes JERRY HIRSCH
Hoping to clean up a patchwork of what it says are unwieldy state
and local laws, a restaurant trade group is pushing a federal bill
that would require chains to disclose the calorie counts of meals on
the menu.
But companies such as Domino's, KFC and El Pollo Loco say the
proposed legislation lets too many restaurants off the hook. They
want to broaden the requirement to include many individual eateries
and small chains.
The fight has become so intense that the warring parties have
made some unusual alliances. The National Restaurant ...