Source: Law & Liberty
by Julia R Cartwright
“The American diet is increasingly a state-managed affair. For more than a century, Washington’s alphabet soup of agencies like the FDA, USDA, CDC, and EPA have determined what goes into our food, how it must be labeled, which claims can be advertised, and even what counts as ‘healthy.’ Yet despite all this oversight, Americans are heavier, sicker, and less active than ever. This is no coincidence. The economics of government food control make success nearly impossible. Misaligned incentives, regulatory capture, and the knowledge problem ensure that bureaucratic management of something as personal and local as food can only produce failure.” (10/02/25)