Bossiness: It’s What’s For Dinner!

Over at Fox News, Reason’s own
Baylen Linnekin lifts the lid on what politicians are stewing up in
2014, and he says it’s a nasty goulash of presumptuous dictates and
nannyish for-you-own-goodism. “Regardless of your choices,” he
writes, “your food freedom—your right to grow, raise, produce, buy,
sell, share, cook, eat, and drink the foods you want—is under
attack.”

Linnekin
lists ten threats to your (and my) food freedom he sees looming
this year. The bulk of them are continuations from the past, both
annoying (like ongoing efforts to dictate the size of our sodas)
and expensive (agricultural subsidies! The policy that almost
everybody agrees is asinine and destructive, but just won’t clutch
at its chest and die already.)

One new nugget involves the restaurant food labeling
requirements built into…(wait for it)…Obamacare! As if that law
didn’t intrude far enough into our lives already, it also puts the
FDA in the position of deciding just what businesses qualify as
“similar retail food establishments” and so will have to assume the
costs and hassles of calculating calorie counts and posting them
for the public.

Peruse Linnekin’s full count of busybody suckage
here.