I've heard every single version of it:
"Nothing ever happens."
"Nothing will change."
"No one's held accountable."
Tomorrow, we’re dropping a bombshell investigation that WILL lead to real reform.
@AntiLeftMemes Who ??? Yeah.. go easy with that “famous” label. He’s barely an actor. I think I remember seeing him in one movie alongside of Johnny Knoxville. Lol
The state showed up at Joel Salatin's farm and told him selling chickens to his own neighbors was illegal.
He was stunned. "I'm a voluntary farmer. They're a voluntary buyer. We're neighbors. What do you mean? We can't butcher a chicken here and sell it to them?"
Their reasoning? The air was unsanitary. "If one fly enters your processing area, then it's an adulterated chicken and inedible."
They said his windows had to be covered with fly-impregnable mesh. One problem. He processed outdoors, with no walls.
"It doesn't say I have to have a wall," Salatin told them. That sentence became the crux of the showdown.
"They were going to eliminate our farm." He pulled in his senator, his delegate, and an attorney. Three months later, he won.
In the living-room meeting, a legislative aide looked at the regulators and asked: "Gentlemen, is it possible that somebody in Richmond created these rules who could not have conceived of a place like Polyface?"
They had to say yes.
And here's the thing. A microbiology lab had just swab-tested his birds against store-bought chicken. The store-bought birds had been through 40 chlorine baths. His had no antimicrobials at all.
The store-bought chicken averaged 3,600 colony forming units of bacteria. His averaged 133.
That's 27 times more bacteria in the government-approved bird.
"So if it's clean, who cares if it's outside, inside, in the kitchen? If it's clean, it's clean," Salatin said.
The regulator's answer? "Well, that's not all we're concerned about."
The standard was never cleanliness. It was compliance.