This week a New York judge struck down an NYC law that ordered all fast-food restos to post calorie accounts of its portions. The judge suggested that the law should include other restos.

A new battle in the Food Wars is exposed. The Food Police are out to get fast-food joints, easy targets because of their reliance on deadly transfats, so much so that they're overreaching. The dept of health and mental hygiene which promoted the law pontificates that consumers are being deprived of "important information" and accused the fast-food outlets of being "so ashamed of what they are serving that they would rather go to court than post calorie information where their customers can actually use it."

Absolute rubbish! The fast-food restos already VOLUNTARILY post calorie counts for their portions and right above the counter (I've seen them). Of course you do have to read and know how to count and it's often difficult to believe that the Food Police are able to do either.

Food police groups support the rule because obesity rates have doubled among US adults and tripled among children in the past 25 years and more needs to be done to make sure consumers know what they're eating.

OK Food Police, examine yourselves. For those past 25 years, nutritionists have urged complex carbs on eaters and demonized fat. In that period, and this is from the Chief of Food Police himself, Dr. Walter Willett of the Harvard School of PUblic Health, people have grown fatter by 20 lbs. All carbs, complex or not, are fattening. They're the most fattening food we can eat. Nutritionists also originally backed transfats, margarines etc, which belatedly, they were chagrined to discover, are the deadliest foods of all.

Now we're told alot of fat, ie fatty acids, are very good for us. 61% of pig fat is good for us. Yippee. We're not going to get fat on good fat moreover.

So instead of the Food Police targeting fast-food as the villain why don't they be logical?

If it's important that we all know the calories in what we eat -- then every resto should post a calorie count chart.