Viewpoint: The libertarian case for getting the government out of the business of regulating food choices Reason | October 23, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/10/23/viewpoint-the-libertarian-case-for-getting-the-government-out-of-the-business-of-regulating-food-choices/ Governments worldwide are moving from nudging people toward healthier diets to dictating them, and that’s a mistake, as Reason’s Jeffrey A. Singer argues. Singer, a Phoenix general surgeon and senior fellow at the Reason Foundation, says food taxes, advertising restrictions, warning labels and rules on how supermarkets stock their shelves rest on shaky science and an even shakier premise about who should decide what adults eat.