This takes the food war insanity to an all new level.
Health department raids community picnic and destroys all food with bleach
The evening was everything I had dreamed and hoped it would be. The weather was perfect, the farm was filled with friends and guests roaming around talking about organic, sustainable farming practices. Our guests were excited to spend an evening together. The food was prepared exquisitely. The long dinner table, under the direction of dear friends, was absolutely stunningly beautiful. The music was superb. The stars were bright and life was really good. And then, …for a few moments, it felt like the rug was pulled out from underneath us and my wonderful world came crashing down. As guests were mingling, finishing tours of the farm, and while the first course of the meal was being prepared and ready to be sent out, a Southern Nevada Health District employee came for an inspection.
The rest is an absolute horror story of petty, tyrannical, bureaucracy at its absolute worst run amok.
I can’t tell you how sick to my stomach I was watching that first dish of Mint Lamb Meatballs hit the bottom of the unsanitized trash can. Here we were with guests who had paid in advance and had come from long distances away anticipating a wonderful dining experience, waiting for dinner while we were behind the kitchen curtain throwing it away! I know of the hours and labor that went into the preparation of that food. We asked the inspector if we could save the food for a private family event that we were having the next day. (A personal family choice to use our own food.) We were denied and she was insulted that we would even consider endangering our families health. I assured her that I had complete faith and trust in Giovanni our chef and the food that was prepared, (obviously, or I wouldn’t be wanting to serve it to our guests).
This was a nice, upscale dinner on the farm. The table was laid out beautifully, and while the guests came expecting a “farm to fork” meal, they had to watch as government trashed and poisoned their food.
What sort of actions will be next?
SWAT Team raids on backyard barbecues?
Things like this make me want to move to another country. But where?
Comments
4 responses to “Tell me this isn’t the United States. Please!”
While I agree it’s stupid and that the health departments should be – on libertarian grounds – reined it, contra the headline that wasn’t a “community picnic”.
When you’re charging people money to serve them food, that’s not a “community picnic”. I saw this a year or two ago when it happened, and people were pointing out then, that for all she avoids bringing it up in her complaint, she was running a commercial event, not a “community picnic”.
I hear “community picnic” and I think “people who live in an area all bringing their own food and eating together, or having a potluck”, not “people paying to eat professionally prepared food”.
(And she loses some sympathy for “I think it should be a criminal action to waste any resource of the land.” combined with “Who gave them the right to tell me what I feed my animals?“.
Sounds to me like she doesn’t mind at all having the State tell people what to do … as long as it’s things she wants.)
I’m with Sigi. It’s fun to watch leftists’ heads explode when the State comes for their raw milk and organic sprouts.
Move to mexico if you want to live free.
When dinner is outlawed, only outlaws will have dinner.