Fat Chance
5 June 2006
Program Director, Morning Edition
National Public Radio
Dear Sir or Madam:
So officials at the Food and Drug Administration believe that restaurants should fight obesity by "serving smaller portions, providing more nutritional information, and promoting healthier eating" ("FDA Report Says Eating Out Can Contribute to Obesity," June 5).
Does it occur to my would-be keepers in Washington that not only CAN I decide for myself what to eat, how much to eat, and what restaurants to frequent, but that I also cherish the right to do? Or do these meddlesome bureaucrats suppose that restaurants stubbornly ignore their patrons' preferences, forcing us to eat whatever they carelessly or greedily serve rather than what we would choose to eat were we not trapped so helplessly in the tenacious grip of the food-service industry?
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Program Director, Morning Edition
National Public Radio
Dear Sir or Madam:
So officials at the Food and Drug Administration believe that restaurants should fight obesity by "serving smaller portions, providing more nutritional information, and promoting healthier eating" ("FDA Report Says Eating Out Can Contribute to Obesity," June 5).
Does it occur to my would-be keepers in Washington that not only CAN I decide for myself what to eat, how much to eat, and what restaurants to frequent, but that I also cherish the right to do? Or do these meddlesome bureaucrats suppose that restaurants stubbornly ignore their patrons' preferences, forcing us to eat whatever they carelessly or greedily serve rather than what we would choose to eat were we not trapped so helplessly in the tenacious grip of the food-service industry?
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Wednesday March 21, 2007 at 5:15pm