Food Safety is not a government job!
Apr 29th, 2008 | By Lene Johansen | Category: BlogSince the onset of the benevolent state that will protect it’s citizens against all sorts of risk, bureaucrats and politicians have been encroaching on individual liberty one good intention at a time. Reason TV’s Drew Carey Project does a great job of showing the unintended consequences of protecting consumers against hot dogs wrapped in bacon.
Consumers like hot dogs wrapped in bacon, they want hot dogs wrapped in bacon. The Health Department in Los Angeles does not know of any case of people getting sick from eating bacon wrapped hot dogs, but they are still sending people to jail, getting people into debt, destroying private property, using police resources, all in the name of protecting people against bacon dogs.
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Between my conversation with author and former food safety inspector Richard North and Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism, I have come to the conclusion that food safety inspection probably is the most nefarious part of the modern welfare state, and I hereby pledge to fight it with everything I got!
I find this frustrating too. There are a few brands of soymilk that I like, and these happen to be produced with “soybeans that are not genetically modified.” Whatever. As if selective breeding 100s of years ago wasn’t a kind of genetic modification over time. I am not afraid of eating genetically modified foods. And I wish I didn’t support products (hell, possibly paying a PREMIUM!) and companies that advertise non-GMO characteristics. So, I continue to buy the ones that I enjoy the flavor……
I sound like the people who say, “I can’t become a vegetarian because I like the taste of meat.” Shame on me!
[...] I do appreciate his work both in The Last Castle, 12 Angry Men, and the Sopranos. He also seemed quite amused about the tale of the Drew Carey Project at Reason.tv as well, and could not really understand why Drew Carey was doing documentaries about bacon dogs. [...]