When Food is Outlawed...

Alessandra Kelley

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Is there something screwy with the cyber-environment inside this one particular thread whereby the printing of every day English onto computer screens seems to get repeatedly misunderstood?

No one seems to hear me, and Don, and Diana, and George when we say: "The complaint is not about regulation, it's about inequitable regulation."

I don't want to keep re-posting the same thing again and again. So I won't. I've already got a dozen posts in this thread so far. Why should I bother with two dozen? The prior 12 should suffice.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be a thicky. When you say inequitable regulation, do you mean it's not right that small vendors are cracked down on while large agribusinesses get too many passes? Because I agree with that. It's just ...

Look, my daddy's daddy's daddy's sister, Florence Kelley, worked her tail off against a lot of intransigent people to get the FDA founded back in 1906. There were food horror stories to make your hair stand on end. While I agree -- and I'm sure she would also, daft old socialist that she was -- that it's not right to enforce laws on small, powerless people and not do so on rich, powerful ones, I also think that it's better to argue for stricter laws and tougher enforcement, rather than complain that only the little guys are held to the law.

Everyone should be held to the law.
 

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Is there something screwy with the cyber-environment inside this one particular thread whereby the printing of every day English onto computer screens seems to get repeatedly misunderstood?

No one seems to hear me, and Don, and Diana, and George when we say: "The complaint is not about regulation, it's about inequitable regulation."

I don't want to keep re-posting the same thing again and again. So I won't. I've already got a dozen posts in this thread so far. Why should I bother with two dozen? The prior 12 should suffice.
I understood your argument, but I skipped over it because it wasn't what the OP was about and I was arguing the OP's point.

I in no way disagree that regulation is applied unequally. I in no way disagree that regulatory agencies need to be purged of business and political corruption.

But I don't argue with points I don't disagree with. Your argument is all well and good, but the point made by the OP was that government involvement in food distribution itself is somehow oppressive, and that is what I have been attacking. The existence of your argument does not negate the existence of his argument.

By all means, let us put the screws to government until we get the fair, equal, stringent and enforceable food safety regulation we need. For everyone who produces and sells food to the public.
 
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