http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/mar/07/its-your-own-good/?pagination=false

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The Louisiana Dept. of Health and Hospitals would rather the homeless go hungry than let them eat deer steaks provided by generous hunters.

That law has hunters across the Sportsman’s Paradise outraged after health officials ordered a rescue mission to destroy $8,000 worth of deer meat because venison is not allowed to be served in homeless shelters.

The Dept. of Health and Hospitals ordered the staff at the Shreveport-Bossier Rescue Mission to throw 1,600 pounds of donated venison in garbage bins – and then ordered then to douse the meat with Clorox – so other animals would not eat the meat.

“Deer meat is not permitted to be served in a shelter, restaurant or any other public eating establishment in Louisiana,” a Health Dept. official told me. “While we applaud the good intentions of the hunters who donated this meat, we must protect the people who eat at the Rescue Mission, and we cannot allow a potentially serious health threat to endanger the public.”

That statement set off a firestorm among hunters and lawmakers who called it outrageous and insulting.

“That’s a mild understatement,” said Richard Campbell, one of the founders of Hunters for the Hungry, a group that has been donating wild game to shelters since 1993. “Hunters are going nuts over it. It’s created an outrage across our state and even over into Mississippi.”

The controversy started when someone being fed at the rescue mission complained about being fed deer meat.

Henry Martin, executive director of the mission, told me they’ve been serving deer meat for years – from deer chili to deer spaghetti.

“This was really good meat,” he said. “It’s high in protein and low in cholesterol. It’s very healthy.”

Martin said he was extremely bothered by the way state health inspectors handled the situation.

“You would think we would have due process,” he said. “But they meant to destroy the meat – that’s for sure.”

The mission’s chef asked if they could at least return the meat to the processing plant – but the state officials said no.

“They actually took it out to the dumpsters, split the packages open and poured Clorox on it,” Martin told me.

He said the rescue mission serves 200,000 meals a year – without a single dime of assistance from the state or federal governments. As a result of the confiscation, he said as many as 3,200 meals were lost.

“It seems like this was a senseless act,” he said. “I don’t think hungry people who come to our mission appreciate the fact they could have been eating some really good venison and as it is now – no one can eat it.”

The Health Dept. defended their actions and said they had to pour Clorox on the meat as an “extra precaution so that animals would not eat it from the dumpster and become sick or die.”

“This is a process called ‘denaturing,’” they stated. Campbell said the venison comes from deer management programs – where hunters have to kill a lot of deer.

“We ask our hunters once they fill up their own freezers to give the extra to the needy,” he said.

Once the deer is donated, a local processing plant prepares the meat for the shelters. And hunters in the Sportsman’s Paradise have always responded to the call – including State Rep. Jeff Thompson.

“As a hunter and somebody who has personally donated deer to this program, I’m outraged and very concerned,” he told me. “You hear about these stories anywhere and it’s a concern – but when it happens in your own backyard it’s insulting.”

Thompson said he is meeting with the heads of state agencies as well as state lawmakers to make sure the rules are changed.

“We take pride in helping our neighbors and to see thousands of dollars worth of meat that would help the hungry go to waste is absolutely disturbing to me,” he said.

I suppose in Louisiana beggars can be choosers.

http://personalliberty.com/2012/07/30/man-arrested-for-collecting-rainwater-on-his-property/
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pq says
I went to Medford, it was so hot in july they fine sprayed us with water from above to hotel seats outside.
I washed my shirt and put it on, and I walked ourtside and my shirt was dry 40 degrees immediately
The above agument is about the City and State reataining control of water fall off,
It is disgraceful of course, you can not collect water from your own fall down there in Oregon.

If you want to drink 3 litres of coke then no one is going to stop you but if you are in a restaurant you will have to do it from 6 different glasses which might help you realise what a fat, greedy cunt you are being.

A strict utilitarian argument leads us to the conclusion that it’s OK to feed the Christians to the lions, so long as enough Romans enjoy watching it to outweigh the extreme displeasure that the Christians feel.

To put it another way, there are some things that shouldn’t be decided by majority vote, because they are a matter of freedom – the many don’t have the right to oppress the few.

Sure, the size of your soda bottle isn’t exactly a red line issue, but there’s a reason there’s a saying about death by a thousand cuts. I believe that:
1. Policies of this nature don’t have any useful affect on obesity – the fat people just buy multiple drinks, the skinny people who are really thirsty get disadvantaged
2. The deadweight cost of regulation is quite substantial
3. There is a substantial impact on freedom of people starting to think it’s OK for the government (meaning a few well meaning lobbyists) to tell you what to do every minute of the day

As always, it’s the chardonnay socialists who come up with these ideas. And funnily enough none of these ideas involve restricting consumption of chardonnay. Like those of my friends who are convinced that the planet is coming to an end through global warming, but still personally drive an SUV because it’s much more convenient with the kids. NIMBYism in another form.

groups get traction because of moron people out there “oh i dont drink soft drinks, gross. they should ban them”.

problem is morons, eventually they get to something YOU enjoy and then how do you like it?

Being able to guzzle gallons of pop from one vessel was a key freedom that the founding fathers intended when creating the USA.

When I grew up coke only came in small cans or bottles along side the massive “family sized” one litre bottle. It makes me realise we were savages back then, I don’t know how we coped, it was like living in soviet Russia.