Aggressive nannies
Health department goons raided a community picnic, declared the food unsafe, and destroyed it with bleach. This was at a private farm. Tar and feathers.
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March 1st, 2012 at 12:23 pm
Hard to Imagine the species survived at all before the FDA!
I mean everything our Grand and Great Grandparents ate was likely “unsafe” and “poison”, by these pointy-head’s standards!
March 1st, 2012 at 1:04 pm
Every day we get a little closer to “shoot, shovel and shut up.”
March 1st, 2012 at 1:34 pm
If it were on private property, one could ask the goon squad: Do you have a warrant? No? You’re trespassing. Good day.
March 1st, 2012 at 2:38 pm
Wow. Sad days.
March 1st, 2012 at 3:19 pm
One small problem:
Not a “community picnic”, unless “community picnic” means “paying a professional to cook and serve you a meal”.
Does explain why the Health Department would get involved; as far as the Law is concerned, this was just the same as a food cart or restaurant – you take money for feeding people, you’re doing business.
Doesn’t excuse how stupid they were about it – that’s still a fine thing to get outraged about, as None Of The State’s Damned Business at the theoretical level.
(They don’t make it obvious, but if you read closely you find: “Here we were with guests who had paid in advance and had come from long distances away “.
Guests, paid in advance?
Not a community picnic. A commercial food-service event.)
March 1st, 2012 at 3:32 pm
Hmm – FDA was established in 1906 as a result of the Food and Drug Act.
Life expectancy in 1900 was 47.3, life expectancy now is 77.9 (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus10.pdf#022 )
Looks like FDA is doing a fair job, Weerd.
March 1st, 2012 at 3:55 pm
All events should be private, no trespassing signs should be posted, and always require a warrant, even if police are with the health department people. Their mistake was trying to follow the law in the first place. Had they refused to file anything with the Health Department, they would have been in the clear. Also when you are a member of a legal defense group. Always call them when you are contacted by a government agency before they start to cause trouble. The lady on the other end of the phone was bluffing. The police would have no authority to make anyone leave the property except the health department people.
March 1st, 2012 at 4:15 pm
At what point do we stop calling them nannies and start calling them prison guards?
March 1st, 2012 at 4:37 pm
Sadly, as much as I dislike the nanny state stepping in where it doesn’t belong, I think Sigivald is correct. They were putting on a PUBLIC event where people PAID MONEY to be served food. That opens the door allowing the government stooges to slip their jack-boots in.
It looks to me like the thugocrats went too far when they wouldn’t allow the food to be fed to the pigs and when they were forced to pour bleach on the food. It also looks like the inspector didn’t follow proper procedure if (as was claimed) they tested food temperature before it was even finished cooking. Although, they didn’t say if that temperature test was to see if the food was hot enough or if it was being kept cold enough. It might have been a storage issue.
The next logical step now, like any time you believe a government action has unfairly cause you harm, would be to get a lawyer and sue.
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March 1st, 2012 at 5:22 pm
Crediting the FDA with longer life spans??? I really hope you are being funny…
March 1st, 2012 at 5:34 pm
This story is fairly old. I followed it at the time it was released and, IIRC, the consensus was that the county health department had no immediate authority to intervene.
The inspector was, in fact, present without a warrant and trespassing. By allowing her on to the property to observe the goings-on, the farm owners shot themselves in the foot. They also apparently erred in advertising the event to the general public. If they had ordered the inspector off of the property and refused to discuss any aspect of the gathering with her, her only recourse would have been to call the police.
By the time they arrived, the event could have been reorganized as a “private party.” That would have ended the discussion.
A sworn officer may enter your property without your permission only under very specific circumstances. Everyone else, including county “inspectors,” needs either your permission or a piece of paper signed by a judge.
March 1st, 2012 at 5:52 pm
Where’s Clint Eastwood when you need him?
“Get off my lawn.”
March 1st, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Rope.
March 2nd, 2012 at 2:25 am
Tar and feathers? No. Bullets and shovels.
March 2nd, 2012 at 9:14 am
I don’t care if it was “public”.
I’m tired of people saying we can only have our rights if we stay “private”.
Huddle in our damn houses, peering out the curtains, not daring to step off our own property. Only producing for ourselves, afraid to even share with our neighbor, let alone actually trade and be tainted with the whiff of commerce, lest Der Schtaat swoop down on us to wet their beak.
Fuck that.