>>>>That’s why I fear we’ve been conditioned over time for socialized medicine etc.
> Why not. This post suggests people have been conditioned for socialized food. Something is sadly working :(
Oh for heaven’s sake.
Are the police “socialized law enforcement”? Should we all get security guards instead of having government do it? Guess we should get rid of the “socialized safety services” of the fire department too.
This is the problem I have with strict libertarians and purist free traders. By lumping legitimate and appropriate functions of government in with the wasteful and intrusive overreaches of “the Great Society” and the degenerate, socialist 60s. Limited government, which I believe in, means that there are some limited functions a government should assume in a free society.
It *is* a legitimate function of the government to set basic First World hygiene standards and mandate labeling for food and water so that we can know the truth about what we purchase, that it is represented accurately by the seller.
It is *not* a legitimate function of the government to overstep its bounds, just as a policeman cannot invade your house without a warrant, they should not be able to tell restaurants they can’t sell “trans fats” based on dubious science.
>>>It is *not* a legitimate function of the government to overstep its bounds, just as a policeman cannot invade your house without a warrant, they should not be able to tell restaurants they can’t sell “trans fats” based on dubious science.
So, what is your problem with my post then?
It is not. How much taxpayer money should be wasted detecting grapefruit juice in juice labeled orange juice? How much taxpayer money should be spent regulating trans fats? Should they measure whether food was cooked in sunflower oil or sesame which is healthier uncooked but can burn when used for cooking? The bureaucrats you want to empower are excellent at splitting meaningless hairs while rubber stamping complete crap like the pet food.
The seller at a local farmers market is going to be shut down by the government gestapo long before any meaningful regulations of large food producers. I'll buy my canned goods from a guy I trust who did it himself, and I don't want to pay for your nanny govt to tell me that I can't. I suggest you subscribe to a private service that checks your food, or do some research yourself before you shop rather than force me to pay for your government bureaucrats