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> >The fault is not in the regulations, but in that they were not 
> applied across the board.  

I'd say applying them across the board is the very thing we DON'T want.  If 
someone is catching fish off the coast of Peru and it ends up in Tennessee, I 
want those very strict regulations in place.  But there is an Aquaculture 
outfit (function of the community college) 12 miles from here in Mountain 
City.  I 
should be able to go there and buy some fish from people I trust and an 
operation I trust without them having to jump through all the hoops that 
Mega-Fisheries and Gargantu-Packers have to when they are selling to WalMart.

It's Mega-Fisheries that want those impossible and byzantine regulations 
imposed on the small fish ponds in rural Tennessee in order to squelch the 
competition.

An example of this is that in this state the huge commercial bakeries (of 
which I think there are only two left) had a law passed (bought the 
legislators) 
which required them to do a sampling and testing for residual chemical dough 
conditioners on each batch.  They point to the law and say, "See, we're being 
responsible, we are subject to this law just like everyone else."  

But a batch of bread at Colonial Bakeries is ten tons or more of dough.  
Small bakeries whose batch is twenty pounds and don't use any chemical dough 
conditioners anyway are required by law to do the test or have it done.  It 
makes 
the bread so expensive that it puts most of them out of business.

So you see the last thing I'd want is for laws to be imposed evenly across 
the board.


>And.... I do not think hunger or destitution will 

> have anything to do with the remaking of our economy.  The same force that 
> caused this mess will pull us out of it..... greed.  

It's just that when you are hungry and destitute, it sets the bar for greed 
much lower.



James   </HTML>