re: Obamacare is Coming After Your Craft Beer

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$77,000 to implement

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I find this realllly hard to believe. but then I considered the source of the OP's article. Front page is just a little biased.

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I considered the source of the OP's article

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Smart man.

I was going to make the argument that the whole point of this is rather silly, as I would think the difference amongst different 'regular' beers is all quite negligible.

Then I found this and saw that it can actually be quite disparate: LINK

Why are Becks and Fat Tire such outliers here as far as calorie content?

I still think it's a shite law/regulation, just asking.

I would like to see the calorie count

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You don't like the Cato Institute?

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The Cato Institute didn't say anything about brewers.

The regulations apply to restaurants and other places that serve prepared foods, and only those with at least 20 locations.

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A U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ruling that requires chain establishments with more than 20 locations to list caloric information on their menus may have left a significant gray area for craft beer.

“The restaurants and similar retail establishments can use a variety of sources to get the nutritional information,” said Jessica Leighton, a senior advisor for nutrition science and policy with the FDA. “There are numerous databases that are available. They [retailers] don’t need to get any specific information for beer and wine.”

FDA officials told Brewbound that they would allow “significant flexibility” for the caloric disclosures of alcohol beverages and would enforce the new rules on a “reasonable basis.”

“We are not going to do a laboratory analysis of a food or alcoholic beverage if that is not what the establishment has done,” said Claudine Kavanaugh, an FDA nutrition scientist.

Instead, Kavanaugh said, the FDA will assess how an establishment calculated the caloric value of a product and use that method as a means of enforcing the new regulations.

Beers sold on grocery store shelves will not be required to display calorie counts, the FDA said.

...the new menu labeling rules only targets retailers, and not beverage producers themselves...

...the FDA ruling does not mean producers will need to make label adjustmentents...

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LINK

No reason to comply with this or pay the fine. No sane person recognizes obamacare as legitimate anyway.

Leftist logic: it probably wont hurt that many so it's justified.

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I find this realllly hard to believe. but then I considered the source of the OP's article. Front page is just a little biased

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You support this?

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I don't see anything wrong with posting calorie amounts. Can only help with decisions with what to drink. It's information I would like to know.

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Good for you.

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Don't like that we are legislating it though.

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And here is evidence of one of the greatest cons ever perpetrated on the American people: the conflation of regulation with legislation.

You see, it was not, in fact, your elected representatives that woke up and said "every single drink in a restaurant needs nutrition labeling because people are dumb and I have to save them. If the brewer can't do it, then they don't deserve to sell their beer."

It was regulators. If the media was once the 4th branch of government, it has now been brusquely shoved into 5th place by the army of the new 4th branch: the administrative state.

Obamacare, the law that Democrats passed without a single Republican vote, does not expressly marginalize and screw craft beer. In order to find that directive, you have to go to 21 CFR 101.11, a regulation cooked by by an agency full of unelected bureaucrats. These are the feds who seem to invade every single corner of the universe with their standards, requirements, fines, and protocols. They are the best friends of big business, lawyers, and lobbyists.

The next time you are told that a hairbrush cannot be carried onto a plane, or that your dog needs slippers to walk on the public grass, or that you can no longer enjoy your favorite local ale on Friday at dinner, ask yourself "did my elected representatives want this?" Chances are, your ire can be traced back to some cubicle who will draw a pension after 20 years of "public service."