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Originally Posted by MathGeek
take a peek at the commercial fishing regulations and assess the bureaucratic barriers needed to sell a few crabs or shrimp or crawfish a few weekends each year at a roadside stand. Are all those regulatory barriers really needed?
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On this point I think stringent rules are appropriate as needed for public health concerns. 50 years ago I'll bet most people buying seafood from roadside stands were going to consume that food within a few miles of where it was bought. If a seller was unscrupulous and selling old product then it was relatively easy to track them down.
Today with advances in refrigeration and chemicals to keep the product looking fresh longer, added to people traveling long distances from where they bought the food to where it is consumed, you could run into all kinds of health problems. I think a reasonable person would agree that regulation is needed in today's world.