Now I know some do count their calories and watch what they eat and exercise but do we really need the Govt to tell us how many calories are contained in alcoholic drinks? When you are in a liquor store would you be choosing your plonk based on calorie count or what you consider to be drinkable and at a decent price point.

A non-profit organization in Brandon, Man., is taking aim at the way alcohol is marketed — and says information such as calorie counts and suggested serving sizes should included on alcohol packaging. Kruck said adding such information to cans and bottles wouldn't cost governments — federal or provincial — any money, with the cost of changing labels falling on liquor companies themselves.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manit...toba-1.6229530

Next they will be asking to put on the label that drinking this product while driving can impair your driving ability and that too much consumption of this product can cause medical conditions or put you in situations where you might embarrass yourself or others.

The governments of most of the world believe they are our mothers and fathers and have the right to tell us how to live our lives. The only thing I needed listed on the bottle is the percentage of alcohol.

On the other hand, faced with more than one choice of something nice tasting and a decent price why not extend that choice further to how many calories?

I had no idea it was such a terrible effort for people to not read a label if they don't want to read it.

EDIT: It's not the Government telling you how many calories are in things, it's the Government telling the manufacturers to tell you how many calories are in things, because, let's face it Canada... you FAT.

Hell, I've been through of lot of European countries in the last 20 years and Canadians (many of whom are immigrants) are not much fatter than some of the citizens of those countries I have encountered.

I don't pay attention to the calorie counts, I would venture most don't considering the long lines at fast food places.

healthcare costs related to obesity are high, and one reason why cigarettes are taxed so heavily, now its high calorie foods and sugary drinks, BC recently added sales tax to sugary drinks, its unlikely to lower consumption but adding the regular sales tax to sugary drinks was less controversial and easier to sneak in then a so called sugar tax, its not a soda tax since it applies to a variety of drinks beyond just coke or pepsi, but if its carbonated and sweet it's taxed now more or less, including artificial sweetners, anything added to make the drink sweet not just refined sugar, honey, mape syrup, fruit juice etc.

Even Kombucha falls under the tax, as does carbonated water flavored with fruit juice.

If its carbonated naturally or by co2 injection and is sweet by any means, its now taxed 7%.

Dealcoholized beer, sparkling wine or cider that contain less than 1% alcohol are exempt from the tax.

All liquor exempt so you can drink all the sugary carbonated booze you want, booze has been taxed at a higher rate for years though, they probably didn't want to add another 7% to the 10% that applies to booze.



"Canadian total population with increased health risks due to excess weight to 63.1% in 2018."

26.8% of Canadian's are classified at obese.

EU as a whole 53% overweight 17% obese.

The king of Obesity the US is 42.4% an increase of 12.4% between 1999 and 2018 with the super obese growing 4.7% to 9.2%.

Obesity in 2008 was estimated to cost the US healthcare system $147 billion in costs.

I've lost 75lbs in the last 10 months, it would be helpful to know the calories in booze once I get onto the maintenance stage after losing another 15lbs.

We are what we eat.
The Japanese have remarkably low mortality rates from ischemic heart disease and cancer. They say the more colourful the food, the healthier it is for you.

We should all switch to smarties

Yup calories/carbs should be on all packaging. Obesity is such a drain on public health and any and all tools to prevent/lessen it should be deployed.

I think they have these counts on other consumables already, though I've never looked closely at the labels. It won't shatter my world to not read the labels on more products.

That's over 5st! The papers are always full of Gemma Collins and her incredible 3 and 1/2 stone weight loss and yet you're on track to double that. You wanna call the Sun, get on page 3.

Doesn't really help that the high carb and generally high calorie foods are the least expensive foods.