Government giving out food = introducing inefficiency, throwing away valuable information flows. This may be reasonable in some cases (food banks/stamps for th

Government giving out food = introducing inefficiency, throwing away valuable information flows. This may be reasonable in some cases (food banks/stamps for the poor), but in others, you will inevitably end up with unfortunate effects like people taking free 'healthy' food and feeding it to the pigs to support their 'unhealthy' cravings.