And political wrangling. And moral panics. And "national emergencies". And just about every other political abuse you can imagine. That's without getting into

And political wrangling. And moral panics. And "national emergencies". And just about every other political abuse you can imagine. That's without getting into the weeds of how well they would do at it implementation or how much it would cost. Government could just do all the farming and manufacturing and food distribution also. Probably not very well and people would be much worse off and the system would be abused by those in power. Same concepts apply to this. Single responsibility principal, as much as possible, is an efficient idea. Government's job is to regulate. If there are problems with the current system that is largely a failure of regulation.