I think it's a little more complicated than that actually, it appears that the restaurant industry actually lobbied for the new regulation. (http://reason.com/b

I think it's a little more complicated than that actually, it appears that the restaurant industry actually lobbied for the new regulation. (http://reason.com/blog/2010/03/22/conspicuous-calorie-counts-com http://reason.com/blog/2010/03/22/conspicuous-calorie-counts...). In this case, it seems to be less a case of the federal government vs personal responsibility, so much as industry pushing for the federal law to avoid having to deal with emerging individual state and local laws. I'm assuming the industry might also be planning to use the labeling to help defend against some of the lawsuits that are being brought against them by people with obesity related disorders.