Lust for power is an ugly thing, and it can show up in even a health inspector. Sauerkraut is an excellent health food, better and safer than raw vegetables, but that does not matter to the health inspectors.
Look at the rules:
In Michigan, for example, home producers can sell breads and other baked goods, jams and jellies, popcorn, dried herbs, cotton candy, dried pasta, vinegars, and assorted chocolate-covered foods such as pretzels or fruit -- as long as their gross annual sales don't exceed $15,000.
Why $15000? What happens at $15000 that matters? What is the point? That no small business may grow? That no one actually make a mliving doing what they love? Why is below $15000 ok but above not? At $15,000, does sauerkraut just then become poisonous? Why not sauerkraut? It is safe. The sauerkraut you get in Safeway does not come in a vacuum sealed jar. Did you ever notice that? Every grocery store in the world had a pickle barrel into which anyone could dip his hand for a pickle. Most delicacy stores still let you serve yourself from olives, pickles, etc.
But submit you must:
If the notice of violation didn't dissuade her, the health department could consult with the county deputy attorney and county supervisors for guidance on how to handle the situation. The most extreme response could be to ask the Sheriff's office to charge Boyce with a misdemeanor.
And if she resisted that, eventually they would kill her, because the prohibition on sauerkraut is absolute, and so is the power of the health inspector. We'd read what a troublemaker she was, how once she sold sauerkraut as pet food to get around the rules, and then traded it for donations to get around the rules, and finally locked herself in her home and died in a SWAT team raid. And how people in the natural food movement are so dangerous. And then the advertisement for Coke and Cheetos would come on.
Why do we need health inspectors?
"If I go to a farmer's market and get sick from a farmer's food, I know where they live. It's absolutely traceable," she said. "That's not the case when you have factory-produced food. What we're calling food safety and unsafe foods is upside-down. People being able to sell artisan foods, small scale, directly to the consumer -- that is the safest food there is because that's where there's the most accountability."
Just so. We need to eliminate health inspectors so we can get more people into making more and better foods.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
Look at the rules:
In Michigan, for example, home producers can sell breads and other baked goods, jams and jellies, popcorn, dried herbs, cotton candy, dried pasta, vinegars, and assorted chocolate-covered foods such as pretzels or fruit -- as long as their gross annual sales don't exceed $15,000.
Why $15000? What happens at $15000 that matters? What is the point? That no small business may grow? That no one actually make a mliving doing what they love? Why is below $15000 ok but above not? At $15,000, does sauerkraut just then become poisonous? Why not sauerkraut? It is safe. The sauerkraut you get in Safeway does not come in a vacuum sealed jar. Did you ever notice that? Every grocery store in the world had a pickle barrel into which anyone could dip his hand for a pickle. Most delicacy stores still let you serve yourself from olives, pickles, etc.
But submit you must:
If the notice of violation didn't dissuade her, the health department could consult with the county deputy attorney and county supervisors for guidance on how to handle the situation. The most extreme response could be to ask the Sheriff's office to charge Boyce with a misdemeanor.
And if she resisted that, eventually they would kill her, because the prohibition on sauerkraut is absolute, and so is the power of the health inspector. We'd read what a troublemaker she was, how once she sold sauerkraut as pet food to get around the rules, and then traded it for donations to get around the rules, and finally locked herself in her home and died in a SWAT team raid. And how people in the natural food movement are so dangerous. And then the advertisement for Coke and Cheetos would come on.
Why do we need health inspectors?
"If I go to a farmer's market and get sick from a farmer's food, I know where they live. It's absolutely traceable," she said. "That's not the case when you have factory-produced food. What we're calling food safety and unsafe foods is upside-down. People being able to sell artisan foods, small scale, directly to the consumer -- that is the safest food there is because that's where there's the most accountability."
Just so. We need to eliminate health inspectors so we can get more people into making more and better foods.
Feel free to forward this by email to three of your friends.
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