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By that same logic most food should be illegal
There already is a lot of illegal food.
Illegal for food manufacturers inject your food with rat poison, illegal for them to pump your meat full of chlorine, illegal for them to sprinkle powdered arsenic all over your snacks for flavor, illegal to put snake venom in your food, illegal for them to put heroin in your food, they can't put just a bit of ketamine on you lunch, they can't put coke or meth in your soda.
How is this different?
You can eat rat poison all you like, it's not illegal to sell. It's simply illegal to offer it as an ingredient in your cookies.
Holy cherry picking batman.
By that logic, cigarettes should be illegal, but raw tabacco leaves should be legal, but not legal to sell to others to consume or included in any other products to put in your body.
Cigarettes have a single purpose, they aren't an additive in a product they have no business being in.
You aren't legally allowed to sell rat poison to specifically have people put inside their own body. Cigarettes are specifically sold for you to put into your own body.
Just say that you like cigarettes (or work for a tabacco company) and don't want them taken away. Which this type of legislation also wouldn't do. Otherwise, by your logic, let's make every substance in earth legal to package for human consumption by itself. I'm sure when they advertise meth and cyanide cigarettes to kids like they did tobacco for many years, nothing bad will happen.
Not only that. It's not legally easy to offer food containing e.g. insects or sawdust.
I read about a company that were selling cookies with sawdust in them as diet products. They put "Contains sawdust to reduce calories" right on the front of the packaging and were advertising it, so a customer would not be misled at all. But it was illegal for them to sell it.
You might need to explain that one a bit for me.
We have a lot of food regulation, sometimes to enforce quality (e.g. no chlorinated chicken), in other cases to encourage better public health (e.g. higher rates of tax on high sugar drinks).
What do you think my statements would make illegal?
Sugar, for one. You aren't talking about a vice tax, you are talking about outlawing it entirely.