(March 31, 2011 at 6:10 pm)theVOID Wrote:(March 31, 2011 at 3:21 pm)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote: The lack of intervention also prevents something like the local health inspectors (a tax-paid government employee) from enforcing those pesky regulations against selling unsafe food in an unsafe environment.
We should punish them when they do something wrong, not BEFORE.
(March 31, 2011 at 3:21 pm)TheDarkestOfAngels Wrote: This a GOVERNMENT employee telling a small BUSINESS that they CANNOT make their CONSENTUAL trades to WILLING customers because they do not meet FEDERAL REGULATORY STANDARDS on what constitutes safe food.
Safe food is food that does not make people sick. When you purchase food you do so under the promise that it won't make you sick - If a company does not comply then they are fined/shut down/imprisoned. You DO NOT need a big expensive government department to make that perfectly clear.
Health inspection isn't a pass/fail kind of deal. It's actually a grading system, so it actually incentivises businesses. An establisment with an A+++ health rating is going to be more appealing to consumers than one with a D-, you dig? And yes, we should be checking these organisations regularly, they handle and prepare people's fucking FOOD. All the time! Strangers! I'd want to know that they are being held to AT LEAST minimum standards of quality and cleanliness! So that I can eat there with some degree of confidence that I am not going to get some sort of parasite that will eat my stomach lining! Prevention is better than cure and if that means we have to hold all food establishments to certain standards of safe practise then so fucking be it! I'm willing to pay a little bit extra in taxes in order to make sure I'm not going to be firing out both ends after I go to a restaurant, or even a fast food joint.
"If an injury must be done to a man, it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared" - Niccolo Macchiavelli
