Nanny State to dictate correct amount of pizza toppings

Nanny State
What’s more fun that a gooey slice of pizza? The answer is simple: a gooey slice of pizza with the perfectly selected, fresh toppings, of course. But the Food and Drug Administration is demanding that restaurant owners post calorie and other nutritional information about their food… and that might have a terrible effect on the pizza industry. The Daily Signal reports:

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s “Nutrition Labeling of Standard Menu Items in Restaurants and Similar Retail Food Establishments” (79 FR 71155) rule is scheduled to take effect on May 5. The 105-page rule implements Obama-era amendments to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act), which sets national standards for the marketing and labeling of food products.

The rule will require, among other mandates, that all restaurants and other retail food outlets, such as movie theaters, operating as one brand with at least 20 stores display a calorie count in addition to other nutritional information for all standard menu items on the establishment’s “menus and menu boards.”

Wait just one second. Has the government finally overstepped so much that New Yorkers and Chicagoans will rebel? You just shouldn’t mess with pizza… and restaurant owners are afraid of accidentally breaking the law. “‘Menu’ can refer to any writing that [is] ‘used by a customer to make an order selection at the time the customer is viewing the writing,” said the former executive vice president of Domino’s Pizza, Lynn Liddle.

As anyone who’s gone to a party knows, pizza slices are sometimes radically different sizes, to the calorie counts wouldn’t be reliable. Plus, adding different toppings would also throw off the numbers. “Industry representatives also pointed out that restaurant owners and supervisors can be held criminally liable for FD&C Act violations under the so-called ‘responsible corporate officer doctrine.'”

Yikes. That’s scary stuff and high fines for someone who just wants to sell pizza, not watch their customers’ weight. One Kentucky restaurant owner said, “To face one year in prison for putting too many pepperonis on a pizza? Everybody laughs and smiles, but that’s the reality of the way it’s written now.”

Give me a break! Let Pizza Hut sell pizzas. Let Weight Watchers keep us thin. Not Uncle Sam.

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Cover up

There is a trend starting among journalists not to name the shooters on campuses,whether it's high school or college/university campuses they won't name them. This trend was started by Megyn Kelly of the Kelly File on Fox News. The next one to do so was a law enforcement officer,an elected sheriff. The public has a right to know. Kelly stated that as a mother she didn't want to mention these people that go on shooting rampages. Guess what,Megyn Kelly,you may be a mother but you're not my mother and I resent you for choosing for me. This is a nanny state mentality and as an MRA and as a libertarian I resent it because it smacks of socialism and feminism. But then again Kelly does get her panties wet over feminism but that is a topic for the Men's Rights Blog. Perhaps these shootings are due to Islamic extremism but I would say it is due to the fact that a lot of boys are drugged in our schools by female teachers who don't know how to handle them or are so dyked out they are afraid of them. These boys are reacting to being drugged all their lives. The chickens are coming home to roost and there is bloodshed in our schools to prove it. Ignorance is not bliss nor is censorship excusable. We have the right to know. No matter how ugly the truth may be.