Petition · past parliament

Prevent the government from making restaurant groups print calories on menus

Rejected 11 signatures

What the petition asks

Printing calories on menus will be very dangerous for people with eating disorders and will cause more harm than good, printing calories will hurt them more than it will prevent obesity
Counting calories does not work and can create an unhealthy relationship to food, especially for those who already have eating disorders. Eating less and moving more may work for short term weight loss but the body fights back against it with a slowing metabolism and rising hunger. Research suggests that between 1.24 and 3.4 million people in the U.K. suffer from an eating disorder. Eating disorders have the highest mortality rates among psychiatric disorders, calorie counting will severely affect this group of people.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Timeline

28 Jul 2020 Petition opened for signatures
3 Aug 2020 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 11
Status Rejected
Rejected 3 Aug 2020

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.