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Prevent mandatory calorie labelling of menus

Submitted on Monday 27th July 2020

Rejected on Monday 3rd August 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Prevent mandatory calorie labelling of menus

Petition Details

Do not make including calories on menus mandatory, it is hugely dangerous for those with eating disorders - the most fatal mental illness. All restaurants should be able to have these available but including them in the majority of restaurants is against guidance from eating disorder specialists.

Additional Information

Calorie counting often leads to an unhealthy obsession with numbers when eating, instead of focusing on what is healthy and enjoyable. It is estimated over 1.6 million and up to 7% of the UK population could suffer from an eating disorder and calorie counting doesn't address the root cause of the disorder. It has also been found that calorie counting apps exacerbate eating disorders, the same could be expected from calorie counted menus.


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This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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