Leave Us Alone. Please.
14 October 2006
Editor, The Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW
Washington, DC 20071
Dear Editor:
Margo Wootan, of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, demands legislation requiring "fast-food and other chains to list calories and other nutrition information on menus" (Letters, October 14).
If diners at fast-food restaurants want such information, restaurants will supply it - just as these restaurants supply countless other things that customers demand such as napkins, tables, and early opening hours. The fact that such information isn't now supplied means that customers probably don't want it badly enough.
Must ordinary men and women continually be molested by the obnoxious, officious, overbearing presumptions of Ms. Wootan and her ilk? Why won't these people leave the rest of us alone to live as we choose even if our choices conflict with their notion of what is "scientifically" the best way to live?
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Editor, The Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW
Washington, DC 20071
Dear Editor:
Margo Wootan, of the Center for Science in the Public Interest, demands legislation requiring "fast-food and other chains to list calories and other nutrition information on menus" (Letters, October 14).
If diners at fast-food restaurants want such information, restaurants will supply it - just as these restaurants supply countless other things that customers demand such as napkins, tables, and early opening hours. The fact that such information isn't now supplied means that customers probably don't want it badly enough.
Must ordinary men and women continually be molested by the obnoxious, officious, overbearing presumptions of Ms. Wootan and her ilk? Why won't these people leave the rest of us alone to live as we choose even if our choices conflict with their notion of what is "scientifically" the best way to live?
Sincerely,
Donald J. Boudreaux
Chairman, Department of Economics
George Mason University
Posted by Don Boudreaux on
Saturday June 2, 2007 at 3:50pm