re: #308 elbarto

First of all, most of the food laws are about sale of it, not posession of it or consumption of it. You don’t get arrested for eating trans-fats.

Second, again: Comparing laws that ban abortion with those that ban foods is, I think, unwise. The effects, the emotions, the rationale behind either are too far separated for it to make any sense to me.

Saying an overarching principle like ‘the government shouldn’t tell us what to do with our bodies’ is something I can generally support, but it doesn’t lead to the conclusion that you had earlier, which was an equivalence between both democrats and republicans. I think the Republican opposition to legal abortion has had far greater effects, and is a far greater problem, than Democratic moves on food regulation— if they really are just Democrat-supported laws.