Heath and safety standards are important; but from what I understand, the "proper inspections and permits" are usually costed so that any business smaller than a multi-national corporation can't afford them. If such is the case here, can you really begrudge them selling under the table?
Yes, actually, I can.
I think the fees for proper permits should not be burdensome, but I don't think selling perishable foodstuffs under the table and at doing so at scale, is a wise move for many, many reasons.
There are ways to do raw foods right, but it means actually dealing with permitting and health inspections as part of it.
So are you in favour of making non-secured luggage in cars illegal, or are you a hypocrite with double standards? Please answer directly instead constantly dodging the point.
Non-secured luggage isn't what is in question, because unsecured luggage isn't sentient and cannot make decisions.
Making the decision not to buckle up is a personal choice, but 'click-it-or-ticket' laws in the US exist because your personal decision doesn't affect only you, when your body becomes a high-speed projectile.
An unbelted passenger in the backseat can kill a belted passenger in the front seat, without even leaving the vehicle, as well.
I've seen enough bad wrecks, and been in enough car accidents, that you will never convince me that pushing seatbelts is a bad thing.
And yes, unsecured things in the cab can become projectiles too; I lost a cat during a roll-over because she was 'unsecured' in the cab, where as if I had kept her in her travel cage she probably would have been rattled but survived.
I have my own chickens. Never checked. Government doesn't even know they exist. Same goes for about every other family in my village. Many sell these eggs by the side of the road. You know, old style, with an honesty box you can put a few coins in, and then you take a few eggs. Never any thefts, either. (Including theft-by-government, because none of this is submitted on any tax form.)
It must be nightmarish for you, but it appears to have worked out thus far.
I think you should say it's more proper to say your government knows, but doesn't care enough to do something unless there is an outbreak.
Also, remember the US isn't the EU/Europe, and has much stricter food safety laws concerning private sales to the public as a baseline.
We have little roadside stands at farms and the like, selling cherries or fruits, but meat and poultry products are much more tightly regulated than fruit and veggies are.
I think that has to do with how it's often easier to visually confirm a fruit or veggie is safe to consume, versus a 'raw' liquid that has never been through any sort of pathogen control step or a piece of raw meat that could have parasites in it.
If it's for personal consumption, that's usually exempt from food regs, but once you start trying to make revenue with it, then the FDA has jurisdiction.
Only wiggle room is things like lemonade stands and the like, where the food being prepared is likely store bought to begin with, and just mixed with water at home.
You are comically missing the point. I can't believe that it's anything other than deliberate ignorance at this stage. Your false assumption is that there's a choice between "Only selling things with a LOICENSE, commoner!" or "complete anarchy, NO CHECKS EVER!"
I mean, very British of you, their police reasons like that, but it's nonsense.
Because licences can exist... and not be mandatory. Then you have the security and guarantees of the licence for anyone who desires it, and the freedom to buy unlicenced things for anyone who desires that.
This complexity seems to elude you.
No, I just understand the horrors the US food industry used to get away with, and has gotten away with in my own life-time, and that cottage industry is not immune to the same factors.
I also understand the sorts of pathogen and parasites that can be present in 'raw' food, have experienced them myself, and do not have a hateboner against food safety regulations or permitting, only excess fees related to them.
