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“they haven’t bothered to read about all the deaths and illnesses that occurred from our food supply”

Read what, The Jungle? Pffft. Thank God for the government, for now we have clean food and eight hour workdays, children don’t work in factories, and the air and water are cleaner than ever. Pay no attention to how things were improving right before governmemt swooped in to fix them. Regulations must be assumed to have maximal impact, and it must be forever the dark ages without them because...well, some reason. Pay no attention, either, to all the bad things monstrous agencies pile on top of the good results we don’t know wouldn’t have happened anyway, because, come on, that’s just mean.

By the way, what is with all the easy macrofying? Since when is it THE food supply, instead of the millions of little interactions food production and consumption is actually made up of? They like you thinking nationally like that. Then it’s only a matter of the government grabbing control of the thing that’s already national in your mind.

We have, for instance, this purported simultaneous national hunger and national obesity problem, somehow, which we mostly care about “for the children.” Food safety has already been established as in the interest of the general welfare. Why not “food security” and healthy eating? Will you let children be fat and go hungry, like how we used to let people be poisoned by tainted food? The answer is clear: we must nationalize the food distribution system. We must force parents to follow nationally designed food plans at home. Food is too important to be left to the vagaries of the market. Look what the free market has given us so far!/s

This may sound like reductio ad absurdum, but it’s only a matter of time. The only reason, I guess, most people think the feds controlling food safety is natural and constitutional, and that life without it is unimaginable-—aside from the usual socialistic arguments—is because it has been around for so long. Time covers a multitude of sins.