Prevent restaurants, cafes and pubs from having to display calorie labels

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

It was outlined in the Queen’s Speech that, in order to tackle obesity, restaurants, cafes and pubs with 250 employees or more will have to include calorie counts on their menus. While seemingly logical, it can be extremely damaging to someone who is suffering or recovering from an eating disorder.

As someone who’s struggled with anorexia in the past, counting calories is a slippery slope. 91% of diets fail, so instead of perceiving this as the change we need, would it not be better to target healthy eating rather than embedding the idea that calories are the be all and end all of food?

One big step in my recovery was deleting calorie counting apps. I know this is the same for many others. Please don’t ruin our hard work by throwing numbers at us that we’ve tried so hard to avoid.

Why it was rejected

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

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Timeline

12 May 2021	Petition opened for signatures
18 May 2021	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 18 May 2021

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