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You're free to eat tainted food because nobody is inspecting it. If your kid dies from eating E. Coli-infested hamburger, just don't eat at McDonald's any more and the free market will eventualy resolve the issue. You're also free to buy dangerous consumer products because safety standards won't be enforced. After you get electrocuted by your poorly-wired toaster, you won't buy a new one and the free market will correct itself.
You're free to starve if you lose your job because there will be no unemployment insurance or social safety net. If you do find a job, you're free to work for pennies because there won't be a minimum wage. And you are always free to throw yourself upon the charity of others -- assuming that your fellow citizens have enough spare change to give to their favorite charities instead of needing it all to keep themselves afloat.
You're free to breathe polluted air, drink chemical-laced water, and live on contaminated land because there will be no EPA to enforce air pollution controls, no federal standards for drinking water, no funds to clean up toxic spills. Don't like it? Don't buy that company's products. The free market wins again!
