Limiting access to any kind of food AFAIK is extremely controversial!
For starters there are the massive astro-turf campaigns that make a lot of noise. Beyond this, food regulation is catnip for the culture wars.
> Taxes on sugar‐sweetened beverages reduce consumption, but a strong public backlash holds that they compromise consumers’ liberty, freedom, and autonomy.
> Where? Not in the US it’s not & it’s much more common to do so in the rest of the world too.
I can't find personally any examples in the US where regulations that limited access to certain foods was not met with an unholy backlash. Here are examples:
- https://crosscut.com/equity/2022/08/study-finds-seattles-con... (the point there is that the ordinance was very controversial)
- https://thefern.org/2022/12/how-food-became-a-weapon-in-amer... (this resource describes how/where food is controversial and has become part of the culture war; which means everything related to it is unnecessarily controversial)
Trying to find such examples, even lead in food is not regulated! [1] The FDA only has guidelines around lead and does sporadic testing. Fail those tests and the FDA only shames you, no jail, no required testing, no required compliance.
The example of the raw-milk-cheese is actually (according to this resourced) a poster-child of limiting access to certain foods as being contentious:
> There are many laws and regulations affecting the cheese and dairy industry in the United States. However, none is more contentious than the FDA-mandated pasteurization of all milk products for human consumption that was instituted in 1987. [2]
To be clear, food safety guidelines are very different from limiting access to food. This is a case though where access to certain foods was restricted and the cited resources states that as an example of the most contentious regulation.
I wondered as well what regulations have actually come from the FDA in the last 20 years and how were those received? It seems like the answer to that is the FDA has long been unpopular and structurely castrated to not be able to do anything regarding food [3]. Why that is the case, how it came to be - I could only speculate. My bets would be that it is easy to use the FDA as a punching bag, gutting it from the inside is certainly part and parcel to the 'small government' push that has been advocated of late [6]. It could also be part that the agency has fallen pray to corruption and is in the pocket of those it is there to regulate [4][7].
Looking at the list of 'milestones' from the FDA, published by the FDA itself, the list seems very underwhelming to me regarding anything food related going back 20 years, even 40 years (nutrition labels are one of the biggest items on that list; very underwhelming to me) [5]
Do you have examples where access to a given food was limited that was _not_ super contentious? I'm honestly not aware of any examples.
I'll repeat this ask - Do you have any examples where access to a given food was limited that was _not_ super contentious? I'm honestly not aware of any examples.
> Oh your idea of “super contentious” is “got a vapid clickbait op-ed article written about it”? Gotcha.
I'm not sure why you need to attack me here.
But no, that is not quite my idea; my ideas are not really germaine. I spent long enough looking for resources and references to not rely on just my own presumptions. You have failed to present any evidence, meanwhile there are over 6 references I presented that were easily found demonstrating the vast 'contentious' aspects of limiting food.
Your own comment regarding raw-milk cheese demonstrates that exact contention. If you were totally cool with that limitation on raw-milk cheese, then presumably you would not even bring it up.
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Side-note, please keep in mind where you are here and the guidelines for HN discourse.
For starters there are the massive astro-turf campaigns that make a lot of noise. Beyond this, food regulation is catnip for the culture wars.
> Taxes on sugar‐sweetened beverages reduce consumption, but a strong public backlash holds that they compromise consumers’ liberty, freedom, and autonomy.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6916313/#:~:tex....
Recall when there was a hint that Biden would limit hamburgers? (This idea was a bad extrapolation, nobody was proposing it as law - but nonetheless the mere mentioned brewed a holy-shit storm of foaming at the mouth outrage): - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/conservatives-beef-with-bi... - https://www.statesman.com/story/news/politics/politifact/202... - https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/26/republicans...