USDA to ban "Junk Food"

How are you punishing people who sell these foods exactly? These changes apply solely to school cafeterias, vending machines, and bake sales. All of which are owned or funded by the school district. As far as I'm concerned it's a free market and it's their decision to allow whatever standards they want.

You're taking it out of context when you take that post by itself, and I don't feel I articulated the point as well as I wanted to.

If school's decide to take responsibility and restrict what they eat to a balance diet, since it's again, as you said, on school regulation, I don't see the problem with it at a shallow point. However if we are to have the government feel they have the responsibility to restrict our choices to certain standards to our diet (fda but on roids), then I feel by creating that standard we would also hurt the wholesalers.

I'm thinking beyond the school district as everyone is very accepting of this choice since it's overall a benefit, but, much like everything else, if the federal forces a blanket on us, it does hurt us in the long run.