Posted on 05/20/2011 8:00:25 AM PDT by Steve495
That’s right. I’m putting this right at the feet of the president himself. A family in Missouri has been fined more than $90,000 by the US Department of Agriculture for selling more than $500 of the furry creatures in less than one year. The families profit was a whopping $200 for the year.
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The government admits wanting to make an example of them.
I’m willing to bet a few dollars the family never received any sort of official notice that informed them they needed a license. If it was “multiple times” the USDA would send out letters certified mail and the USDA would be able to prove they were received.
The fine notice was sent certified. If the others were sent certified - as they should have been - I don’t think the family would publicly say they were never told what they were doing wrong.
Little bit of a distortion here, they were selling rabbit meat, you cannot run a slaughter house in this country without a license and a food inspector.
Don’t sell animals for food unless they are inspected and tagged by the state/USDA.
My chickens were inspected, tested and tagged. Nice and legal. No fines, no nothing. Granted, I sell the eggs not the meat.
Oh my, how history repeats itself. The film was released in 1989, but was filmed in 87/88.
That is a case LONG overdue for a revisit.
We also sent Final Agency Notice via certified mail.
From that point on if you still had a complaint, you had to go to court.
Fur Shur some were smart enough to know to get a lawyer and he'd immediately send in a letter for "a reconsideration" ~ which was rarely given.
When you get something from some of these federales you probably ought to call a lawyer who specializes in that agency.
As sure a sign we are dealing with too much bureaucracy as anything else I could think of.
Things must be real slow at Department of Agriculture.
Outrageous.
And the Kulaks are saying, from their graves, “we told you so!”
Can you provide a link that shows they were running a slaughter house? Big Government indicates they were - at the beginning - selling some rabbits for meat, not slaughtering them. Is there a difference between selling for meat and selling meat?
They started this venture more than six years ago, and the official notice from the USDA does not mention selling meat, and only mentions violations starting four years ago. Were they selling rabbit meat or rabbits for meat prior to April 2008?
Wasn’t it just last month they spent a year investigating an Amish guy who sold milk?
Why???
Do people not ask why anymore? Why do we need to have the government's permission to do everything?
Did Founders of our nation intend (and fight an die) that we needed a government bureaucracy to give permission to sell a handful of chickens or rabbits to a neighbor?
Why?????
In the end, everyone who had their own food was a Kulak.
I just shake my head when I read some of what is written on FR. Some posters (who almost certainly have never run a business in their entire life) apparently think that small business people have money machines at their disposal which they are able to use whenever they want to to pay other people to act as go-betweens with the federal gov't.
“We also sent Final Agency Notice via certified mail.”
So are you part of the agency that can’t seem to use their brains in a situation like this? This is another example of zero tolerance BS.
There is no excuse for demanding $90,000 from this family, government over-bearing regulation and stupidity.
Even straight women can be a problem ~ we had one who you'd see sometimes sitting there watching her watch waiting for the big hand to swing past the 12 so that she could DENY an appeal for not having been filed within the time limit.
Not all the employees are like that ~ frequently the good guys put stumbling blocks in the way of the jerks just to make sure abuse does not happen.
Sounds like USDA had a critical senior employee retire suddenly which left the idiots in charge of things.
Bet they redesigned the billing document (which seems to be of local, not national, design) first thing so they could have some giggles.
"Yeah, let's put the $3 million on bedbug letter #13 ~ that'll make 'em stand up straight"
They were down the street. Their headquarters has at least one murder a year. Our headquarters building never had a murder ~ ever ~ but theirs does one a year. It's dysfunctional and should be seriously reorganized.
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