>>>>>>>Yes, they have the right to sell any portion size they want. But it's frustrating that one can't buy a reasonable portion size. That's actually true for a lot of stuff in this country and it's part of why we have an epidemic of obesity and diabetes.
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>>>>>>This may be worth reading http://www.truthaboutabs.com/3-foods-to-stop-eating.html
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>>>>>Definately some truth in that, as our intestines were darwined well before the concept of agriculture changed living style.
>>>>>And while we are more overweight, the in general we tend to live longer due to some part the relative ease of getting food.
>>>>>The part of buying less preprocessed foods rings more true to me than the damnation of corn, soy and wheat -
>>>>>the way humans can adapt their diet to environment (think eskimo) makes me believe less in intestinal proclivity.
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>>>>Typical socialism. Run the People, Run their wallets.
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>>>?? this one does not parse for me... local saying ?
>>>Where does socialism enter when pondering cro magnon diets ?
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>>The government decided the diet of the people. The individual should have the choice, not the government.
>>What I eat or drink sould not be the government's concern, nor is the profit made by the business that sold it to me.
>>It's all about the freedom of the individual person and that person's rights.
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>Than that's statism, not socialism.

Since the directive is affecting the production of output from a higher authority in an administrative/political hierarchy, I believe this falls under command economy. This is more Communist in the Soviet and Eastern Bloc style.

Command Economy : A command economy is one in which the coordination of economic activity, so essential to the
viability and functioning of a complex social economy, is undertaken through administrative means
— commands, directives, targets and regulations — rather than by a market mechanism.
http://econ.la.psu.edu/~bickes/rickcommand.pdf