Abstract: The article contains evaluation of the foodstuffs policy as one of the most important elements of the social functions of the state. The author provides a definition of a social function of the state as a direction for its legal, organizational and practical activities, regulating the living standard and the processes of implementation of social and economic right of individual in an amount adequate to the specific stage of development of society and state.  The author provides for the topicality of historical and legal studies of the social function of the state at the current conditions of formation of the social state in the Russian Federation.  Based upon the scientific analysis  of the numerous legislative acts, the author singles out specific features of the legislative guarantees of foodstuffs policy.  In the opinion of the author, the social activities of the local government could only succeed only in the conditions of revision of the entire complex of Russian legislation: civil, tax, financial, etc.  However, it did not happen, and the normative legal acts on local self-government became a foreign substance within the Russian legal system.