With all the corruption in California, one really wonders how much actually was destroyed.
It might have been all of it. In my 30+ years in the Federal bureaucracy, I saw a lot of really wasteful, stupid stuff.
Things where we destroyed/wasted many thousands of dollars because it was much harder to get permission not to waste the items than to simply destroy them.
By the above, I mean following the regulations was very wasteful, but fairly easy. Bucking the regulations was less wasteful, but very hard, and risky.
“With all the corruption in California, one really wonders how much actually was destroyed.”
It is being carefully destroyed on bottle at a time...
Stored safely for immanent destruction at multiple safe facilities.. Governors mansion, Nancy Pelosi’s residence.
Then there was one mass destruction event that happened. Executed and wintness by highly trained and experienced FDA staff on a charted Yacht at sunset on the bay.
This exclusive destruction of the wine was accompanied by and paired with the destruction: of ceviche, scallops wrapped in bacon, garlic shrimp and truffles and fois fras.
I have the perfect example of this. The govt organization I was with had over 4 million dollars of excess inventory. Much of that inventory really was not useful, e.g. specialty tools that no one could identify. We sent it to auction and the the total pay-off was less than $40,000. Shipping and packaging to the auction was +$50,000. We all knew this before hand. We asked if we could donate it to a charity if they would pick it up. But no- it might "not look good."