BARFBLOG: Hank Hill on food safety and hygiene - (barfblog)
February 11, 2008 – 6:52 pmhttp://barfblog.foodsafety.ksu.edu/2008/02/articles/food-safety-communication/hank-hill-on-food-safety-and-hygiene/index.html
Food bans don’t work. It leads to underground food establishments that often skip on food safety basics.
That’s not some policy wonk, that’s Hank Hill from tonight’s King of the Hill. If municipalities are going to ban trans fats, why not ban raw oysters and rare burgers. Where is the line drawn?
Bans have unintended consequences. And, as Thomas Jefferson noted a long time ago, “I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education.”
So be informed. Don’t eat poop (donteatpoop.com).
MORE:
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/foodsafety/news/fsnews.cfm?newsid=24184
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