Government joins Greens for war upon the franchises.

daddy said :

I do hope they are going to program the terminals to limit the kJ content you can purchase in a single transaction. I would suggest fingerprint scanning each person in a group as well to ensure everyone is covered and no-one can be buying for “my friends over there”.

Perhaps a card-based mandatory Kj pre-commitment be introduced that requires eaters to set their maximum Kj before they start eating and lock them out when purchases reach their limit.

Given that fat people usually play the pokies as well, we will only need one card.

Lets go further – if you reach the limit on the pokies then your Kj allowance decreases; conversely if you eat healthily then we let you spend more on the pokies.

zippyzippy said :

I don’t get why so many people seem personally offended. Don’t like it, then ignore it, just like a lot of people probably do for the nutritional info on the packaging of food. But it’s good that it’s there in terms of revealing nutritional info clearly for people who want or need to know (think people concerned about weight or other health problems, parents feeding kids etc). Plus it makes nutrition more of an active factor for consideration when places like kfc build menus, and it means slick advertising can’t distort the bare nutritional truth – all good things.

No one is destroying your way of life. There will just be factual information available to help consumers make choices. And anyway, don’t forget how the obesity epidemic is not good at all for Australia, including in terms of how much it’s costing us – that has a much bigger impact on our way of life.

Oh would you take your lefty defence and drown it in some wheat grass juice.
Do you have any clue about what the kj actually mean? Having a single figure next to an RDI figure will do nothing for people, because it doesn’t take into account a person’s existing weight, their level of physical activity and so on. The RDI is based on an “average” adult regime.
So if anything, Mr Tyre Waist is going to look at the board, see a burger is only worth 2500 of 8700 and go… yeah, not even close to the limit, might have two.

zippyzippy said :

You are comparing the provision of nutritional information to a totalitarian 1984 state?

Well one could say that. However, deeper and more perspective readers may have discovered more relevant underlying themes, vis a vis the encroaching and incremental interference within all aspects of daily purchases and performances of routine matters, by an unelected party, which seeks to instil a moral and ethical constriction on the lives of the citizenry to further its own goals. If they have no elected power, but the ability to enforce conformity, what monstrous servilities would these quasi-religious apparatchiks enslave our community with, and manipulate our choices of such mundanities as the foods we eat down to?

Or I could just be taking the p!ss. You decide.

Ben_Dover said :

Dictat from Greens Headquarters No. 26383767238393782783.

I am taking trouble with you, Canberrans,” Rattenbury said, “because you are worth trouble. You know perfectly well what is the matter with you. You have known it for years, though you have fought against the knowledge. You are mentally deranged. You suffer from a defective memory. You are unable to remember real events and you persuade yourself that you remember other events which never happened. Fortunately it is curable. You have never cured yourself of it, because you did not choose to. There was a small effort of the will that you were not ready to make. Even now, I am well aware, you are clinging to your disease under the impression that it is a virtue. Now we will take an example. At this moment, how many lentils are each citizen allowed per week?”

(apologies to Eric Arthur.)

You are comparing the provision of nutritional information to a totalitarian 1984 state?

Dictat from Greens Headquarters No. 26383767238393782783.

I am taking trouble with you, Canberrans,” Rattenbury said, “because you are worth trouble. You know perfectly well what is the matter with you. You have known it for years, though you have fought against the knowledge. You are mentally deranged. You suffer from a defective memory. You are unable to remember real events and you persuade yourself that you remember other events which never happened. Fortunately it is curable. You have never cured yourself of it, because you did not choose to. There was a small effort of the will that you were not ready to make. Even now, I am well aware, you are clinging to your disease under the impression that it is a virtue. Now we will take an example. At this moment, how many lentils are each citizen allowed per week?”

(apologies to Eric Arthur.)

Chop71 said :

ACT= Nanny State

Giving people more information = nanny state?

How do you figure that?

I don’t get why so many people seem personally offended. Don’t like it, then ignore it, just like a lot of people probably do for the nutritional info on the packaging of food. But it’s good that it’s there in terms of revealing nutritional info clearly for people who want or need to know (think people concerned about weight or other health problems, parents feeding kids etc). Plus it makes nutrition more of an active factor for consideration when places like kfc build menus, and it means slick advertising can’t distort the bare nutritional truth – all good things.

No one is destroying your way of life. There will just be factual information available to help consumers make choices. And anyway, don’t forget how the obesity epidemic is not good at all for Australia, including in terms of how much it’s costing us – that has a much bigger impact on our way of life.

farnarkler said :

Next it’ll be plain packaging for fast food!

And pictures of obese people on the packaging. “this could be you”

This stupid and offensive policy has already been implemented elsewhere (eg New York) and has had zero impact on obesity and fast food sales.

As others have pointed out, a meal at an ordinary restaurant is just as likely to be laden with kilojoules. It’s all about the symbolism of giving the fast food chains one in the eye, self-righteousness being the defining quality of the Greens and their hangers-on. Sanctimonious jerks, the lot of them.

We seem to be plummeting into a new wowser era, abetted by gutless Labor politicians.

Next it’ll be plain packaging for fast food! Which morons voted Bresnan and the rest of club mongoloid in?