An average American consumes one ton of food a year per the USDA. Multiply this by the number of US population, and witness the enormous number, more than 300 million tons of food being eaten in the US every year. Imagine what would happen if there was no one to monitor our food, or regulate it, and think how much work is needed to keep 300 million American safe from hundreds of millions of foods that comes from everywhere in America, and the world. Radley Balko, in his article, “What You Eat Is Your Business”, claims that the US government is to involve in US citizens’ eating habits. He shows how the excessive involvement of the government makes people lazy about their own health. In addition, he suggests that there is no need to take people
