Context was the idea of a government banning certain popular foods

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    Two farmers live next to each other. One raises cows, the other pigs.

    The cow farmer can get milk from their cows and drink it, but some governments say they can’t give that milk to their neighbors.

    That’s where the government should have no business between private parties.

    The Amish run into this problem alot.

    Now the pig farmer can’t give a whole hog to their neighbor, some governments say it must go through an approved butcher.

    That’s also a problem.

    Setting rules about what can and can’t be done for retail sale between strangers, makes sense thats a good place for regulation. Rules between private people not so much.

    In the case of banning meat, there better be real human studies with metabolic wards and hard outcomes. Using epidemiology and low risk associations to push a political or religious agenda is exactly what government regulation should NOT do.