The right to unhealthy food and choosing to slowly die of poor diet and lack of exercise - yeah that's fine, freedom and so forth. I'm all for letting people imbibe whatever drugs they want, including alcohol, as long as they're being responsible about it. You wanna grab some heroin and shoot up and pass out on your couch after a hard day at work. Go for it. Idgaf.

That, however, is very different than food being literally poisonous in a way that will acutely affect someone. Either through actual poisons or by being full of deadly and dangerous bacteria that will kill you.

That is unacceptable. It's not part of some slippery slope of limiting personal choice; it's a baseline part of a healthy and happy society we should all be striving to create.

Personally, I would also advocate for a gigantic sugar tax on all levels of production, refinement and sale. Starting at the crops and through to the sodas. Additionally, I would create a percentage based tax on manufacturers of processed foods based on a "healthiness index.". Healthy food you're paying no tax at all. Twinkies - yeah that's getting taxed the most. I do think there's a place for the state to intervene in ways to push the food supply towards being healthier and one of those is making foods full of sugar and trans fats expensive.

People should 100% be able to afford a treat, that's a whole other socioeconomic argument, but it's far too convenient and easy to get food bad for you as your main source of daily calories.

Anyways that's a far ways off from the original point which is that when you buy food at the store it should not contain poison or deadly bacteria.