The United States FDA has some strict rules for frozen cherry pies, and colorful requirements that must be met before those pies can be sold on the market. The FDA specifically demands that all frozen cherry pies be made up of at least 25 percent cherries by weight and no more than 15 percent of those cherries can be blemished cherries.
Without government, who would tell us how many cherries to put into our pies?
When it comes to government restrictions, you can find a wide variety of nonsensical rules on the books. It's been said that there are so many rules now that have been established that virtually every individual is allegedly guilty of breaking multiple rules every day, many they might not be aware of.
There is currently a small deregulation effort taking place that's seeking to change the rules on cherry pies, among other restrictions surrounding food items.
And the more that they can scale back on the restrictions, the better it will be for human liberty, because we don't need government to initiate and enforce nonsense standards on our food items.
It's alleged that the FDA already has plans to revoke some old food standards, reversing restrictions surrounding items like cherry pies, canned peas, French dressing, and more.
The rules surrounding cherries in pies aren't about quality or consumer safety. Why can't a person decide for themselves after eating a slice of pie whether it's a good slice of pie or not? If it doesn't have enough cherries or if it does, surely that's a question we can answer for ourselves without having some central authority answer it for us.
Don't stop with just pies, but feel free to unravel the many thousands of ridiculous restrictions on individual liberty and human exchange that have been put into place that arguably haven't accomplished much in the way of quality or safety.
