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Jun 2022
50m 27s

Calorie Menu Labeling

AUBREY GORDON & MICHAEL HOBBES
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This year, the UK implemented a law requiring chain restaurants to list calorie counts on their menus. Where did these policies come from? What impact do they have? And why is a Julia Roberts quote from 1990 the best way to describe them?

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