I only ask because this latest idea, that menus should contain calorie information, is going to damage hundreds if not thousands of small businesses.
Why? Has he any idea how much gathering this information will cost? We looked into it at the brewery and the best price we could find was £140 per test. We currently produce 14 beers which, if we had to produce the information, would cost us nearly £2000. Imagine a small independent take away that has over 50 different lines on sale. How many of the owners could afford the £7000 or so to continue to trade? How many would just shut up shop? Big business can afford to spread that cost across all of its outlets but small business would be beggared by these proposals, especially in the current financial climate.
You'd expect this kind of thing from the jealous-of-other-peoples-success Labour Party but not the Tories
Saturday, November 27, 2010
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Yep, as I mentioned here, all these initiatives do is thrust more power into the hands of big business, thereby reducing choice and punishing the poor.
The public health movement is evil.
None of Cameron's Cabinet Clique are real Conservatives - at best they are totally wet Centrists and at worst they are Centre-Lefties!
I glazed over that in the Telegraph this morning thinking 'ye gods, this lot are no better than Nu-Labour in their interfering c*ckwittery, Plus ça change '
Of course the EU is no friend of small businesses. We saw this over salmonella in eggs, the foot and mouth fiasco. Small producers forced out of the market in favour of the large companies.
If I were these businesses I would just make make the figures up (after all putting the information on there in the first place is one thing knowing as a consumer whether it is accurate is something else entirely)
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