The Govt. Won't Let You Make Adult Decisions About Your Food
From reason.com, Baylen Linnekin writes about the closure of the Underground Market, a roving San Francisco club for budding food entrepreneurs and their customers, who'd pay a $5 fee to gain entrance to the market:
Once inside, members would be treated to a variety of foods prepared and sold by a rolling list of unlicensed vendors. These Underground Markets could draw more than 2,000 people....The Underground Market will cease to exist this month because--as you probably guessed by now--it fell victim to California regulators.
The California Department of Public Health and San Francisco Fire Department shuttered the market in June 2011. They hit Forage and its founder and leader, Iso Rabins, with a cease and desist order that forbade Forage and the vendors who took part in the Underground Market from "donating, giving away, selling, trading, or other means of sharing food with/to the public until approval and permits are issued[.]"
Why must there be official permits, as long as people know the government has not stuck its nose up the ass of every piece of food?
Rabins has it right:
"The idea that what makes food safe is at the local level is not inspectors, but the inherent responsibility and care created by the local community," Rabins wrote recently. "I think we proved that point. With over 50,000 people eating everything from Webber grill fired pizza to pulled pork, there was not one illness reported to the health department."
Under this theory should I be allowed to sue the governemnt if I get food poisoning from an establishment that had the governments approval to operate?
lujlp at December 11, 2012 8:23 AM
Amy Alkon
https://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2012/12/the-government-12.html#comment-3512202">comment from lujlpRight on, luj!
Amy Alkon
at December 11, 2012 8:58 AM
Ridiculous. Does that mean that homemade food can't be donated to a homeless shelter in SF?
Jennifer K at December 11, 2012 9:20 AM
Of course, they would be paying out any claims from our tax dollars, so it isn't much of a win for us as a whole.
Dwatney at December 11, 2012 9:22 AM
Sure it is Dwatney, one the one hand I would have lots of money which I'd reintorduce to the economy via hookers and sex toy purchases
One the other hand after a certain number of lawsuits theyd stop trying to regulate things like this as it would be cheaper not to even try.
Win win as far as I can see
lujlp at December 11, 2012 9:56 AM
Did the California Department of Health just outlaw dinner parties?
Conan the Grammarian at December 11, 2012 12:54 PM
Heard as a side comment tonight:
What the F##K?
Can we start trimming the federal government yet?
Jim P. at December 11, 2012 8:35 PM
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