The Anti-Big Mac Attack: Busybodies and trial lawyers set greedy eyes on food - food may be next target in products-liability cases

National Review, July 15, 2002 by Jonah Goldberg

"The socialist society," wrote the late Robert Nozick, "would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults." Well, the "healthy society" -- which is dismayingly similar to the socialist society, when you think about it -- would forbid unhealthy acts between consenting adults, in this case between me and my short-order cook.

It would also constrain free speech, free enterprise, and, perhaps most dismaying of all, the right to pursue happiness. Let's face it: Food is important to happiness. So when the food police say unrestricted marketing of food makes the health-care industry's work more difficult, the only defensible response is, "Well, then it will have to be more difficult."