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A small PSA: turns out selling meat is super ultra regulated by the USDA. Even though the liver comes from a USDA inspected facility, the act of dehydrating it is still considered meat processing under VA law, which cannot be done in a non-USDA inspected facility.

Because of this, I’m not longer officially selling the liver crisps on my website and instead, will just stick to the occasional zapsnag opportunity to GIFT them to all of my friends on nostr. I have some interesting ideas for that actually to get around these regulations.

Super discouraging tbh. Constant roadblocks in this area of work.

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dern 3mo ago

USDA can stick their regs right up their asses

Sorry to hear about the bullshit man. Keep grinding 🫡

Great Ghee 3mo ago

Appreciate the kind words 🙏

AU9913 3mo ago

There are people mailing cannabis all over the country. Not saying you should risk it, but no one said anything when i was mailing cheese

Filou 3mo ago

You mail cheese?? 👀

AU9913 3mo ago

I did until my farmer/producer hurt himself

n0>1 3mo ago

What if you only sell for sats on nostr platforms? How can they stop you?

Great Ghee 3mo ago

It’s not about being stopped but more so about being caught selling it and experiencing real legal issues and penalties.

While I don’t agree with the regulations at all, I’m not in a place to skirt them and embrace any potential consequences of the state coming down on me.

I have some ideas though to legally give away the crisps a without it being promotional for my business though.

n0>1 3mo ago

I just don't see you how you get caught if the business is nostr and sats. That makes sense though.

Great Ghee 3mo ago

I mostly agree, but am working on exercising caution when it makes sense

Josephus 3mo ago

I make “salami roasts” and biltong and pemmican too… I hit the same hurdle.

Great Ghee 3mo ago

It’s pretty frustrating

Josephus 3mo ago

What it is is killdozer-worthy. They have no right, full stop. They allow Bill Gates to genetically engineer ticks to give people alpha-gal to become allergic to meat, but I can't sell you a steak?

Our founders tarred and feathered people and had a tea party over a 10% tax on tea.

Sats 4 Snacks 3mo ago

Great Ghee 3mo ago

I’ve just seen how the state makes examples out of people. And at this point, I’m not trying to give them a chance to make an example out of me

Kip Ashlynn 3mo ago

Meat is super regulated thanks to Upton Sinclair's The Jungle

Great Ghee 3mo ago

Need to add that to my reading list

Kip Ashlynn 3mo ago

It's naaaaaaasty! We had to read it in highschool and it was the catalyst for my first attempt at vegetarianism. But it's also fiction so who knows if it was really as bad as all that.

I am not a vegetarian now, nor have ever successfully been vegetarian. I just get literally malnourished when I try 😅

Great Ghee 3mo ago

As do many people.

But it’s no wonder why the US predominantly is financial and services. Anything industrial or manufacturing related has a noose of regulation around its neck

Kip Ashlynn 3mo ago

🤷‍♀️ if anyone needs any financial or economic research services please hmu 🥰🤣🤓

Filou 3mo ago

Gifting is the way. In many jurisdictions people get around cannabis sale laws by selling a sticker or T-shirt and including the weed as a ‘free gift’ 😆

Great Ghee 3mo ago

VDACS event prevents gifting as a form of promotion or marketing of meat that isn’t made in a USDA facility. I think there are still ways to get around that or at least get in a gray area

55809c7c... 3mo ago

Liver crisps?

Do you have a recipe or is there website with a recipe?

Great Ghee 3mo ago

Soak in buttermilk, season to your liking, throw in the dehydrator for 10 hours. Boom, you got liver crisps

Adrian M Lopez 3mo ago

Soopah gey! Think of me when your inner Santa comes around

Great Ghee 3mo ago

I’m not kidding just thinking of not saying anything about it and including liver crisp bags in orders of ghee. That would qualify as a gift and not for promotion. But at least in ‘public’ I will not be selling any

Adrian M Lopez 3mo ago

Yes… YES! Use that Tylenol fueled autism to fuck over the state!

twentyone 3mo ago

Don’t give up. Find a way

Great Ghee 3mo ago

Working on it 🤙

BE 3mo ago

Sorry to hear this, but I suppose it’s not surprising. There are way too many regulations everywhere, most of which are worthless or harmful. I wish you well and love cooking with the ghee I recently bought from you!

Great Ghee 3mo ago

🫡🐮🤘

MoneRogue 3mo ago

Just sell it on the black market instead. We need more counter-markets that focus on more than just Devil's lettuce and crack.

Hanshan 3mo ago

exactly.

shopstr has an onion link and LN transactional privacy is fine.

what could possibly go wrong?

😶‍🌫️

rturo 3mo ago

sell it for dogs. Is there regulation for that

Great Ghee 3mo ago

Still regulation, but less. Will be looking into this. Might end up selling expensive dog treats that humans could also eat lol.