I am not sure what you mean? Before we did not have things like the USDA or FDA.
If we maintain that it is illegal to claim regulatory approval unless you actually have it, then that gives us a choice (between tested/approved and not) which we have not had before, and don't have now.
What we have done, is replace all lack of regulation and testing with a universal mandate for extremely long and expensive regulation and testing.
I feel like everyone is interpreting my point as a dichotomy between everything or nothing, between the situation as it is today or total anarchy. But that is not at all what I am saying.
I am arguing for more freedom, not less.