The state has no control over the food at the pantries beyond

My brother in Christ there is literally a department of agriculture at the federal level and every single state. To say the state has no control over food in pantries you have to ignore water rights and farm tax credits and crop subsidies and trade restrictions and registration in pesticides and that’s just on the production end.

I live in a city where people are routinely arrested for distributing food to the homeless.

The state clearly has enormous control over what gets produced, where it is distributed, and who eats it. Even what price its sold.