Quote from: Hawker on September 01, 2011, 07:00:41 AM

Lots of average people still get phished for credit cards on the Internet every day. All they lose is a few nights sleep. But if the same people make the same level of mistakes with food, their kids will die. And without a food safety regulator, that will happen a lot.

Then they are unfit to be parents and their remaining kids should be taken away from them.

Quote from: Hawker on September 01, 2011, 07:00:41 AM

You seem to object people having the right to trade a small freedom, namely the right to sell food in any old way they choose, with a big freedom, namely the right to eat safely anywhere. Why? Its a good trade. Unless you explicitly want to sell unsafe food, you lose nothing.

You can trade whatever you want. I object to you trading my freedom. It's not up to you to decide who I should trust. Personally, I'd rather trust my safety to free market businesses that have to compete with each other rather than a single bloated agency with a CYA-mentality that's allowed to stagnate.