{"id":545,"date":"2011-11-22T14:38:02","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T14:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technogypsie.com\/science\/?p=545"},"modified":"2011-11-22T14:38:02","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T14:38:02","slug":"government-agents-force-private-citizens-to-pour-bleach-on-organic-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technotink.net\/science\/government-agents-force-private-citizens-to-pour-bleach-on-organic-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Government Agents Force Private Citizens To Pour Bleach On Organic Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

Government Agents Force Private Citizens To Pour Bleach On Organic Food<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Government Agents Force Private Citizens To Pour Bleach On Organic Food<\/h2>\n
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Tuesday, 15 November 2011 12:08 <\/span> Mac Slavo <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This article was written by Mac Slavo and originally published to SHTF Plan<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cHe has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The Declaration of Independence
\nJuly 4, 1776 <\/strong><\/p>\n

With 48 million Americans on federal food assistance we are bewildered by the latest government outrage from Nevada, where a\u00a0 group of private citizens gathered together at Quail Hollow Farm for a Farm-to-Fork dinner consisting of an organic spread prepared by Chef Gio were forced to dispatch and sanitize hundreds of pounds of food with bleach.<\/p>\n

As invited guests began to arrive, mingle and satiate their appetites, one unexpected individual, operating under the auspices of the Southern Nevada Health District, had another plan in store for dinner.<\/p>\n

The following outrageous first-hand account of the incident should make your blood boil. If it doesn\u2019t then we don\u2019t know what will.<\/p>\n

Via Laura Bledsoe of Quail Hollow Farm:<\/a><\/p>\n

[Video of the Event Can Be Viewed Below]<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Our guests were excited to spend an evening together. The food was prepared exquisitely.\u00a0 The long dinner table, under the direction of dear friends, was absolutely stunningly beautiful. The music was superb. The stars were bright and life was really good.
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\nAnd then… <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2026for a few moments, it felt like the rug was pulled out from underneath us and my wonderful world came crashing down.\u00a0 As guests were mingling, finishing tours of the farm, and while the first course of the meal was being prepared and ready to be sent out, a Southern Nevada Health District employee came for an inspection.<\/p>\n

Because this was a gathering of people invited to our farm for dinner, I had no idea that the Health Department would become involved.\u00a0 I received a phone call from them two days before the event informing me that because this was a \u201cpublic event\u201d (I would like to know what is the definition of \u201cpublic\u201d and \u201cprivate\u201d) we would be required to apply for a \u201cspecial use permit\u201d.<\/p>\n

If we did not do so immediately, we would be charged a ridiculous fine.<\/p>\n

Stunned, we immediately complied.<\/p>\n

We were in the middle of our harvest day for our CSA shares, a very busy time for us, but Monte immediately left to comply with the demand and filled out the required paper work and paid for the fee.\u00a0 (Did I mention that we live in Overton, nowhere near a Health Department office?)\u00a0 Paper work now in order, he was informed that we would not actually be given the permit until an inspector came to check it all out.<\/p>\n

She came literally while our guests were arriving!<\/p>\n

In order to overcome any trouble with the Health Department of cooking on the premises, most of the food was prepared in a certified kitchen in Las Vegas; and to further remove any doubt, we rented a certified kitchen trailer to be here on the farm for the preparation of the meals.\u00a0 The inspector, Mary Oaks, clearly not the one in charge of the inspection as she was constantly on the phone with her superior Susan somebody who was calling all the shots from who knows where.<\/p>\n

Susan deemed our food unfit for consumption and demanded that we call off the event because:<\/p>\n

1. <\/strong>Some of the prepared food packages did not have labels on them.\u00a0 (The code actually allows for this if it is to be consumed within 72 hours.)<\/p>\n

2. <\/strong> Some of the meat was not USDA certified.\u00a0 (Did I mention that this was a farm to fork meal?)<\/p>\n

3. <\/strong> Some of the food that was prepared in advance was not up to temperature at the time of inspection. (It was being prepared to be brought to proper temperature for serving when the inspection occurred.)<\/p>\n

4.<\/strong> Even the vegetables prepared in advance had to be thrown out because they were cut and were then considered a \u201cbio-hazard\u201d.<\/p>\n

5.<\/strong> We did not have receipts for our food.\u00a0 (Reminder!\u00a0 This food came from farms not from the supermarket!\u00a0 I have talked with several chefs who have said that in all their years cooking they have never been asked for receipts.)
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The only way to keep our guests on the property was to destroy the food.<\/p>\n

We asked the inspector if we could save the food for a private family event that we were having the next day.\u00a0 (A personal family choice to use our own food.)\u00a0 We were denied and she was insulted that we would even consider endangering our families health.\u00a0 I assured her that I had complete faith and trust in Giovanni our chef and the food that was prepared, (obviously, or I wouldn\u2019t be wanting to serve it to our guests.\u00a0 I then asked if we couldn\u2019t feed the food to our \u201cpublic guests\u201d or even to our private family, then at least let us feed it to our pigs.\u00a0 (I think it should be a criminal action to waste any resource of the land. Being dedicated to our organic farm, we are forever looking for good inputs into our compost and soil and good food that can be fed to our animals. The animals and compost pile always get our left over garden surplus and food.\u00a0 We truly are trying to be as sustainable as possible.)<\/p>\n

Again, a call to Susan and another negative response.<\/p>\n

Not only were we denied the use of the food for any purpose, to ensure that it truly was unfit for feed of any kind we were again threatened with police action if we did not only throw the food in the trash, but then to add insult to injury, we were ordered to pour bleach on it.<\/p>\n

Now the food is also unfit for compost as I would be negligent to allow any little critters to nibble on it while it was composting and ingest that bleach resulting in a horrible death.\u00a0 Literally hundreds of pounds of food was good for nothing but adding to our ever increasing land fill!<\/em><\/p>\n

This is the land of the free?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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