In every "free" society there must be a balance between personal freedom and protection of others. I think most of us can agree that one man's freedom should not infringe on the freedom of others. Without laws to insure this, our society would degenerate into survival of the fittest and anarchy would prevail.Those American adults who need a Nanny Government to tell them what to eat and drink are merely frightened, irresponsible, lazy, weak-minded individuals. It's time for them to stop acting like children.
The rest of us don't want their Nanny State. We're responsible adults who value our Freedom & Liberty. You eat too much 'bad' food? Oh well, that's on you. The rest of us shouldn't be punished because you're lazy and stupid. We can't ban things just because many among us are too dumb and lazy to be responsible adults.
The problem is determining how much should personal freedoms be limited to protect others
Wearing a set belt in an auto is certainly an infringement of personal freedom. We justified this on the basis that injury or the loss of human life effects more than just the person who dies or is injured, families, employers, and of course insurance rates are effected. Likewise, mandating health insurance and restricting the sale of alcohol and tobacco, and unsafe foods all limit our personal freedoms but also protect others.
I think increased limitations on personal freedoms are inevitable because we are becoming far more interdependent on each other. . Also, the value of a single life has become much important society and we are willing to limit some personal freedoms just to save one life.
This is all moot on this issue anyway, since nobody's "banning" anything. Requiring a food seller to justify the safety of what it puts into the public food supply can by no stretch be interpreted as infringing anybody's freedoms. To the contrary it's part and parcel of the Constitution's mandate to "promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity".
The public "Defence" is not necessarily always one against a geographically external force.
Who is we?
Why, We the People of course.