Agreed, food safety is really taken for granted. And the libertarians on the topic don’t realize we have food safety because of crazy amounts of deaths and sickness.
I previously listened to some certain farm/homestead podcasts and youtube vids. Several of that group were upset about small farms trying to sell things and also raw milk laws. While I can sympathize with ag and other laws that are stacked against the little guys, it’s like… you know we have an FDA and other things because people were doing terrible shit, right? I’m sure you don’t plan to, but the problem is many other people do. That wasn’t the only thing that turned me off that particular group. They want fewer regulations and stuff, but they also depend on their water, skies, and soil not being polluted to hell all while talking about NOT putting bad/polluted things in their bodies. One talked about potentially bribing a CA emissions check guy in the same damned podcast because their truck as they were leaving CA didn’t meet standards. I stopped watching/listening, but I’m wondering if the hurricane that hit a lot of the carolinas quite badly changed their minds about certain things and government help; I’m guessing ‘no’ even if they took said help.
Edit: I no longer live in the US, but I do think that small farms should have a bit more ability to do some things so long as the buyer is properly informed of and accepts that risk, but there are all kinds of considerations that would have to be done around that and probably limits on size to keep the big/industrial guys from trying to exploit it.
Agreed, food safety is really taken for granted. And the libertarians on the topic don’t realize we have food safety because of crazy amounts of deaths and sickness.
I previously listened to some certain farm/homestead podcasts and youtube vids. Several of that group were upset about small farms trying to sell things and also raw milk laws. While I can sympathize with ag and other laws that are stacked against the little guys, it’s like… you know we have an FDA and other things because people were doing terrible shit, right? I’m sure you don’t plan to, but the problem is many other people do. That wasn’t the only thing that turned me off that particular group. They want fewer regulations and stuff, but they also depend on their water, skies, and soil not being polluted to hell all while talking about NOT putting bad/polluted things in their bodies. One talked about potentially bribing a CA emissions check guy in the same damned podcast because their truck as they were leaving CA didn’t meet standards. I stopped watching/listening, but I’m wondering if the hurricane that hit a lot of the carolinas quite badly changed their minds about certain things and government help; I’m guessing ‘no’ even if they took said help.
Edit: I no longer live in the US, but I do think that small farms should have a bit more ability to do some things so long as the buyer is properly informed of and accepts that risk, but there are all kinds of considerations that would have to be done around that and probably limits on size to keep the big/industrial guys from trying to exploit it.