> it's the heavily processed stuff that is dangerous
It's this kind of ignorance that makes me not want some bureaucrat deciding what everyone eats and making me pay for it.
As an aside, did you see the article posted here yesterday about how the FDA just redacted their long-standing advice about cholesterol? The government is operating almost as ascientifically as the general public, making laws and declarations based on extremely weak predictions.
> Once AI removes these jobs we'll have serious problems on our hands with unemployment.
We'll also remove one of the biggest cost centers in food production, so feeding unemployed people will be, remarkably, even easier and we still won't need a state-controlled feeding apparatus.
> If everyone didn't have to struggle with the time and money to feed themselves
No one in the first world needs to struggle to eat. Eating healthy is dirt cheap; many people just don't know how to do it. Instead of bringing back soviet bread lines, we could just teach people practical stuff like how to eat healthily and affordably.