If Everybody Is So Concerned About Health In This Country. Why Do We Permit The Sale Of Unhealthy Food?

Answer 1

What country? What unhealthy food?

Answer 2

I'm in the U.S., but I bet this answer works for most of the free world: we permit the sale of unhealthy food for the same reason we permit the sale of cigarettes and alcohol (and history taught us what happened when they tried to retroactively ban alcohol). They're already legal and they make businesspeople a profit.

Now, whether there'll ever be an age limit on hamburgers is another question....

Answer 3

There's a constitutional debate whether the right to choose what food you eat is covered by the free speech (expression) clause or whether it is a fundamental liberty right, or whether the govt can regulate it.

The current consensus is that the govt can regulate it if the food is obviously unhealthy in even small amounts (like drugs). But cannot regulate it if the issue is only that some people eat too much.

The bottom line is exactly how fascist a country we want to be? Do we really want the govt deciding by majority vote what we can have for dinner?

Answer 4

The so-called unhealthy food is tasty and energising, and can be consumed in limited, small quantities without serious adverse implications on health! So, it is not really the quality of the food that causes health problem, often it is the quantity, which can be controlled individually by health conscious consumers! That's the logic behind permission for all food items!

Answer 5

Because we permit the sale of guns and knives and poisons, too. Not to mention many different kinds of drugs and alcohol.

What people choose to do with those things is their own business. Water can kill people, but that's legal as well. Regulating a thing by the government should be seen as a last resort to protect society from something extremely harmful, like bombs or pathogens, or the kind of drugs that are not only extremely addicting but deadly as well.

A hamburger won't kill you unless you're trying to kill yourself by eating hamburgers.

Answer 6

Because its a free country--and we don't need the government telling us how to live our lives. There's too much of that already. People who want the power to "permit" others to do or not do something aren't concerned with anybody's welfare but their own--they are nothing but petty dictators and bullies.

Answer 7

Because it is not for us to decide what others may eat.
I would not want to live in a country where the Government decides my diet.

Answer 8

One word: greed.

Answer 9

because they're not really concerned duh