1/ As an anarchopapitalist / libertarian who hates government regulations, and also raises / slaughters / butchers animals, I have ... complicated thoughts on this topic.https://twitter.com/RealDarylJames/status/1292999015638937600 …
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5/ I'd love to live in the world where anyone can butcher and sell meat, and anyone can buy it, as long as it's truthfully labelled (e.g. "processed in a SamCo Butcher location; see http://samco.com for inspection reports and training certificates!")
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6/ And we already live in a world where I can raise a pig, slaughter it, and sell the whole carcass (or half of it) to a friend who trusts my cleanliness and skill. I've done that, and I've bought a cow carcass off a friend and butchered it myself.
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7/ The regulations aren't really that bad, as far as regulations go. Carcasses and halves have a pretty low surface to volume ratio, and contamination happens on the surface, so selling wholes and halves is pretty safe.
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8/ Ground meat is terrifying, though. The entire outer surface is torn up and mixed into the center. This is a disease breeding ground. I would not buy ground meat except from a processor I REALLY trusted.
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9/ No one big thesis here - the take aways are (a) regulations are bad, (b) but some are terrible and some aren't that onerous, (c) butchering regulations are at the not-terribly-onerous side, (d) markets almost always do better than government monopolies. exeunt
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@LibertyFarmNH I liked the idea of ancap-scheme liability over criminal law more before I really saw that the kind of people who break laws are *also* the kind of people who are judgement-proof b/c there's just no value there to grab back in compensation.Show this thread -
11/ Right, this is what my wife was addressing in the previous tweet: the people most likely to cause damage are the people most judgement-proofhttps://twitter.com/ashofcreativity/status/1293227649159106561 …
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What's the effectiveness of removing these food regulations in favor of robust support for suing for damages? Certainly there's a range somewhere within the category of "mishandled/misprepared food" that equates to poisoning someone
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I'm still amused that in my state, cutting hair takes 1350 hours of training, but providing security to a massive industrial plant with a 10mile kill radius for "worst case catastrophe" only takes 20 hours.
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