After months of appeals, delays, and squawks, the city’s fast-food restaurants are, for the most part, complying with calorie-posting laws. According to the AP, city inspectors have issued only nine citations since enforcement began, on July 19. So was calorie posting not such a big deal, or is the industry dancing now because it fears the looming threat of a fast-food moratorium? Not that they’re the only ones who find all this McLegislation troubling: Slate’s William Saletan wrote a forceful and well-reasoned argument against the moratorium yesterday, calling it “food apartheid” and racist: “Telling certain kinds of restaurants that they can’t serve certain kinds of people is just plain wrong, even when you think it’s for their own good.”
NYC Says Restaurants Complying With Calorie Rule [AP via Crain’s NY]
Food Apartheid [Slate]
Related: New York Food Puritans Seek Fast-food Moratorium
