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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These specialists will usually let you know the score. In this case the people contacted a lawyer who specialized in USDA (et al) and he seems to have advised them to GET OUT OF THE BUSINESS RIGHT NOW.
Which they did.
They are now getting fined for not having called that same guy earlier.
Because if you sell eggs to someone and your chickens carry disease you will be “intercoursed skyward”.
The laws protect the consumer. It also protects me from:
- potential lawsuits
- if the animals are lost they are tagged and can be identified
- my health since I eat them too
I take it you're not familiar with Wickard v Fillburn or Gonzales v. Raich? Look them up and find your answer. Then refer to my tagline for summation.
Actually the article says they started by selling rabbits FOR meat not the meat itself. This is not a slaughterhouse as the animals were sold live and processed elsewhere. The principal is the same as a hog producer selling to Hormel.
Wickard was revisited recently, and reaffirmed. Scalia wrote a concurring opinion. Thomas wrote a scathing dissent.
- potential lawsuits
- if the animals are lost they are tagged and can be identified
- my health since I eat them too
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Yeah I understand all of that logic.
But my point is that we have gotten so used to the government giving us “permission” to do activities like this; we just can't think of a world any differently which is wrong.
How about you and people like you do what is right for food safety because it is the right thing to do?
And if someone does get sick; they can come after you.
And you can choose to do whatever inspections you want to. Not because a govt agency tells you to.
Gov. Mike Dukakis, who was the Donk candidate against GHWB, was known in his home state of Massachusetts as Mandatory Mike
. Liberalism is primarily about government power, which is to say, compulsion.
Is that called going ag
?
True they must be receiving ordres from the WH.
You worked for the post office for 38 years. You have about as much connection to the private sector as Obama does. You’ve never run a small business and I am pretty sure you weren’t running a law practice on the side while you working for the post office. So spare me the advice about consulting with attorneys whenever you have the federal gov’t sticking its nose into every nook and cranny of one’s business.
I do buy from a local farmer.
I know that hindsight is 20-20 but the best thing the Dollarhites could have done after the inspector left was to “close” the busines (Dollarvalue Rabbitry) and then re-open after a time using a different name and then incorporating. I believe that would have shielded them from their current dilemma.
if we had a Republic as founded, the market-place would handle this just fine. Anyone who accepts that "licensing" is the only solution doesn't truly understand Freedom. Market solutions will always be superior to anything government bureaucrats can create and manage.
Government licensing is another evil that makes people think "government is there to protect us."
Milton Friedman addresses the destructive nature of licensing in many of his writings.
Getting really damn tired of this crap.
Licensing has the effect, if not the purpose, of keeping out the competition from established businesses. This is actually detrimental to the safety and cost efficiency for the consumer.
Sorry, but it does not seem that the majority of america agrees with you.
Cruel and unusualo punishment comes to mind...excessive fine by 150 times..
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