On 2015-03-23 7:47 AM, Moe DeLoughan wrote:

> 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>".
>


I don't know how different the laws are in the US. I am going by what he
told me. I don't think he was making a pile of money with that
business. It was just him and his father helping out part time. He had
an offer to come and work with some friends.