Sounds like the feds want to know where to direct the obamazombies for food when the balloon goes up.
Either that or they are considering regulations against “hoarding”.
Or both.
The feds are just making a list, checking it twice, making sure how is naughty or nice.
You either swing from the fed/state genitals or you are an enemy of the State
There are at least three other possibilities that come to mind immediately:
1) Restrict food sources to eliminate independence from the commercial food industry, i.e. to require you to continue to spend your money (esp. hyperinflated money) on food — this helps to keep you “in the system” as a wage slave)
2) Cripple resistance when TSHTF (think “Siege of Leningrad”).
3) Restrict food sources to eliminate them as possible barter items when TSHTF, esp. hyperinflation, or currently as part of the underground economy.
I leave the possibility of mass poisoning and/or drugging via “official” food sources as a matter for others to argue.