It’s like the old joke about the old Polack who finds a bottle with a genie. The genie grants him a wish. He wishes that Genghis Khan and his Horde would rise from the grave and sack Poland. The genie says “why do you want that to happen?” The Polack says “because on the way here he’ll go through Russia!”

The water was checked after the man finished his work, and lead was still there. Some lead is needed for faucets to work. I just found out why the sensors for lead are so sensitive. It has nothing to do with health, but the levels of lead picked up by the sensors could mess up geological age determinations.

If the source of the salmonella was found and cleaned up, then the health system worked. Why would new laws be required?

Leaving less room for small producers and local variety is probably one of the goals that the authors and promoters of this legislation want to achieve. To them, it’s a feature, not a bug. They won’t admit it, of course. They use “consumer safety” as cover to justify the law. But the real motives behind this law, in my opinion, are (a) rent-seeking by the big producers, who want to freeze smaller competitors out of the market, and (b) the statist desire of legislators for tight government control over agriculture, which is a lot easier to achieve when you only have a handful of large companies to regulate.