Petition · past parliament

To reverse the recent decision to provide calorie content on menus

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

To reverse the enactment of calorie disclosure on menus in restaurants and other public food vendors menus
To disclose calorie content on menus is equivalent to writing a death or half life sentence to the huge number of people, old and especially young , suffering from mental health issues which manifest themselves in eating disorders. Those who don’t have problems eating are quite capable of making their own food related decisions. The government isn’t required to attempt to micro manage that, at the risk of those who are unable to do so and will NOW, be unable to manage to eat out without huge challenges.

Why it was rejected

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

We have published the following petition, which you might like to sign:

Remove requirements to display calories on menus: Remove requirements to display calories on menus

Timeline

9 Apr 2022 Petition opened for signatures
25 Apr 2022 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 25 Apr 2022

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