McDonald’s to Add Nutrition Labeling

McDonald’s Corp. will start printing nutritional information on its packaging starting in February, according to a Reuters news story today. It will be similar to the Nutrition Facts tables found on packaged foods in stores, so consumers will be able to tell in a pig-eyed glance that they’ll be ingesting 47 percent of their total recommended daily fat intake by inhaling that Big Mac. It’s great to hear McDonald’s is taking this step, which I’m sure has absolutely nothing to do with building defenses for itself against tobacco industry-style litigation.