Tuesday, October 13, 2009

NYC Health Department Hands Out Fast Food Coupons


Remember, it was Mayor Bloomberg who banned trans fats and required chain restaurants to post calorie labeling in big letters?
Well, it's his Health Department that is now handing out free coupons to McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King and Kentucky Fried Chicken.
The health department has been giving out $5 vouchers to the fast-food restaurants, to encourage tuberculosis patients to return to clinics for treatment programs.
You would think that patients would be more than happy to get free treatment even without the coupon.

A former department employee who managed tuberculosis control when the incentives began, trashed the program.
"It's a big hypocrisy when they've been campaigning against people eating that stuff, the hypocrisy is that the city launches a campaign, as you well know, of making restaurants list calories and all that, while at the same time they themselves are proliferating free McDonald's incentive cards."