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splendoruranium@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

This would mean they’d be against food safety regulations, would it not?
It would not.

Having traffic laws isn’t the same as banning cars, either.

Of course it is. Part of traffic legislation literally involves banning certain types of vehicles, either in certain areas or on any kind of public road in general.

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remon@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Exaclty … certain types in certain areas. That’s regulation. You wouldn’t just ban all vehicles. Do I really have to spell this out?

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- Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  are you being intentionally obtuse? obviously they wouldn’t ban all vehicle, that wasn’t suggested in the OP either.
  
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  - remon@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Are you?
    
    We’re talking about banning one of the major things that is food. If you ban meat, you only have plants and fungi left. So yes, I think banning an entire branch of transportation is a decent analogy.
    
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- splendoruranium@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  Exaclty … certain types in certain areas with a reason. That’s regulation.
  
  Which is just what I wrote, yes. Excising every unmaintained or outdated vehicle from traffic everywhere for example is just as valid a regulation as excising a certain type of food - any food - from general consumption. There’d simply have to be a good reason. And once there is, yep, what can and can be eaten gets dictated.
  Again, that’s already how it works, in traffic and in cuisine.
  
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desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
yes, however as far as I am aware there are no laws in the us against any private vehicle usage on private land. Unlike the FDA which criminalizes owning or consuming certain chemicals.

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- Randomgal@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  The difference is having a car on your land is your problem. Having dangerous chemicals that leech into the ground and water is a problem for everyone around you and the generations down the line.
  
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- JigglySackles@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I don’t know. Pretty sure bleach isn’t allowed in most drinks but you can feel free to drink as much as you like at home.
  
  jk if that’s not obvious
  
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- splendoruranium@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  
  yes, however as far as I am aware there are no laws in the us against any private vehicle usage on private land. Unlike the FDA which criminalizes owning or consuming certain chemicals.
  
  You may have reached the limit of that car-metaphor there.
  
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