Baylen Linnekin on the Unappetizing State of Food Freedom

Reason.com food columnist Baylen Linnekin

sounds off over at Fox New about the unsavory treatment in the
United States of our right to eat and drink the goodies of our
choice.

In fact, 2014 may go down as the worst year for food freedom
since the New Deal era, when Congress, President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt and the Supreme Court conspired to strip Americans of
many basic food rights. Just how ludicrous was that period? In
1942, the Supreme Court actually upheld a New Deal law that
prohibited farmers from using wheat they grew on their own farms to
bake bread to feed their own families.

While we haven’t matched that historic low yet, there are still
nine months left in the year.

Linnekin points to rules requiring chefs and bartenders to wear
gloves, bans on trans fats, nagging nannies adopting tech tools so
that it’s increasingly difficult to escape their concerns, and more
issues you may have already found cringe-worthy through his pieces
and those of other great Reason writers.

It just may inspire you to stock the pantry with
soon-to-be-forbidden treats.

Read the
whole thing here.