Alcohol makers plan legal challenge to ban on boozy lunches

[Foxy Brown]

Alcohol producers in Henan province have retained a lawyer to appeal a controversial government document that bans officials from drinking alcohol at lunch during work days.

Kang Yinzhong, a lawyer retained by the Henan Alcohol Association, said that drinking was a private affair and holding public office shouldn't keep someone from consuming alcohol as long as it did not affect their work.

[Asmodai]

They've got a point. If alcohol doesn't interfere with their job, the law restricts the freedom of public officials for no good reason. It's not like most bureaucrats operate heavy machinery.

Besides, a lunch meeting often goes better with a little wine.