Little bit of a distortion here, they were selling rabbit meat, you cannot run a slaughter house in this country without a license and a food inspector.
Can you provide a link that shows they were running a slaughter house? Big Government indicates they were - at the beginning - selling some rabbits for meat, not slaughtering them. Is there a difference between selling for meat and selling meat?
They started this venture more than six years ago, and the official notice from the USDA does not mention selling meat, and only mentions violations starting four years ago. Were they selling rabbit meat or rabbits for meat prior to April 2008?
Actually the article says they started by selling rabbits FOR meat not the meat itself. This is not a slaughterhouse as the animals were sold live and processed elsewhere. The principal is the same as a hog producer selling to Hormel.
if we had a Republic as founded, the market-place would handle this just fine. Anyone who accepts that "licensing" is the only solution doesn't truly understand Freedom. Market solutions will always be superior to anything government bureaucrats can create and manage.
Government licensing is another evil that makes people think "government is there to protect us."
Milton Friedman addresses the destructive nature of licensing in many of his writings.