Posted on 03/09/2014 11:16:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 03/09/2014 11:18:31 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
State lawmakers have passed a new food safety law that they wish they hadn't.
Anyone working in a California restaurant or bar who prepares ready-to-eat food - from bagels to sushi to fruit salad to cocktails - has to wear gloves or use deli tissue, spatulas or tongs. But the new rule, which went into effect Jan. 1, has had so much blowback that lawmakers are already trying to repeal
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They will never run out of things to make laws about. CS Lewis made this observation in God In The Dock
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
Every waiter, bartender and cook in downtown Sacramento should make it their mission to serve meals and drinks to legislators and their staff with a used glove in it whenever possible
If they run out of things to make laws about, which is highly unlikely here, no problem, next step is the start writing laws about writing laws. We need committees, polling agents and project review structures to be put into place, and we need them right now! The show must go on.
That's because they hate tobacco but love marijuana. Perhaps one idiocy leads to all the others?
-PJ
This is a lobbyist who is worth his weight in gold.
There isn't one, that industry is almost entirely offshore.
From what I understand, all you need is a phone and a pen.
Liberalism would work if not for the unintended consequences. Unfortunately for liberals, reality is real and good intentions don’t cut it. Of course, liberals in their earnestness are incapable of grasping the irony of this. Thankfully conservatives do.
Usually in CA laws such as this one come from some union influence. Maybe to cut productivity of fast food workers so business needs to hire more.
Everybody else...not so much. What a hassle!
Why this sudden phobia about cleanliness? Another industry that's suddenly exploded is the anti-bacterial "sanitary wipes" industry. Suddenly sanitary wipes are on everybody's desk at the office (and you are expected to use them!).
Have we all turned into Michael Jackson/Howard Hughes types?
I'm all for basic hygiene but this is ridiculous. Don't people know that exposure to bacteria in moderate amounts is actually good for their immune systems? It helps your immunity system stay in shape to fight off bacteria every now and then.
If you deny your body bacteria for a long period of time, your immunity system will weaken or even shut down. Then the next exposure could kill you.
Congress passed a Food Safety Act of 2010, which may be similar to CA law.
I was at a farmer’s market in Seattle and took a bite of a peach offered to me by a vendor. As I reached for it, took it and put it in my mouth, my coworker was screaming, “NO NO NO!!!”
The vendor had been throwing the knife around, catching it in his hand by the blade, dropping it in the gutter, picking it up to throw up in the air again. All without washing his hands or the knife he used to cut the fruit. And, yes, I had severe food poisoning within hours.
Eventually we’ll discover that the Neandertals died out because they ate foods prepared without the use of gloves.
“When a bug bites me, the bug dies.”—Lazarus Long
” . . . estimates he’ll go through 50,000 gloves a year just for bagels.”
Quick, someone ask the Sierra Club to calculate the volume of all the used gloves they’ll have to dispose of each year in California (and no, they’re not readily biodegrable).
And guess what raw material is used to make the material in almost all those gloves? If you guessed “petroleum”, you’re a winner! Yes, from the tar sands of Canada by rail or through a pipeline to the Pacific, across the ocean to China, then back by ship to Long Beach, gazillions of gloves, waiting to find a landfill near you!
Just wondering.
Politicians believe they are experts at everything...
They import all the third worlders who can sneak in but were afraid line-dried laundry would make them look like tenements. You just can't fix that level of stupid.
The only thing they read carefully is the part that says: “This law does not apply to legislators.”
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