&gt;a lack of food safety standards led to terrible things for consumers in the early 20th century.<p>and now we have a situation where a little girl gets raided for selling lemonade without a license.<p>Transfat has been banned in europe but in many other countries, manufacturers are responding to consumer demand by removing transfat from their products without needing to be coerced by the government.<p>It is not necessary for the government to intervene. Consumers can take care of themselves.<p>&gt;The problem with the whole idea of government regulation being always bad is that that&#x27;s only the case if consumers have perfect information,<p>And how does the government know more than the consumers? Are they privy to secret information?<p>&gt;are able and willing to choose any provider,<p>which they are in a free market<p>&gt;and there aren&#x27;t economies of scale.<p>you need to clarify this.