On 3/21/2015 4:31 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
> When I went in to my local Dutch butcher this morning to pick up my
> weekly order I was told that bad news that they are closing down. They
> are victims of bureaucracy. He told me that the government told him
> he had to put nutrition labels on all his products, and he cannot
> afford to do that.

I call bullshit on his claim. The government grants a small business
exemption for ground meat products:

"to qualify for the small business exemption for ground or chopped
products, a retail store must either be a single retail store or a
multi-retail
store operation that employs 500 or fewer people and produces no more
than 100,000 pounds of each ground product per year".

And as for intact meat cuts, the business has the option of putting a
label on the package *or* displaying a poster with the nutrition
information *or* providing pamphlets with that information.

So all this dude had to do was go to the gov's website where the
nutritional information posters are formatted, hit print, laminate it,
and hang it up.

If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that when people
have a problem that they brought on themselves, they blame somebody
else. The tale of woe is never "I screwed up". It's nearly always
"it's all the fault of <fill in the blank>".