You Can Get a Year in Jail for Feeding Garbage to a Pig

Attorney Mike Chase, behind the popular @CrimeADay Twitter feed, talks about his new book, How to Become a Federal Criminal.

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You Can Get a Year in Jail for Feeding Garbage to a Pig

You can get five years in federal prison for selling llama poop, according to Title Seven of the United States Code, Section 8313(a)(1)(B).

Title 21, Part 139 of the Code of Federal Regulations prohibits the sale of spaghetti noodles that are improperly shaped.

The Swine Health Protection Act forbids feeding a pig garbage that hasn't been cooked by a garbage cooker (by someone with a garbage-cooking permit, naturally).

Criminal defense attorney Mike Chase, the man behind the popular @CrimeADay Twitter feed, has a new book titled How to Become a Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender. It chronicles government power at its most arbitrary and absurd.

Reason's Todd Krainin sat down with Chase to learn the roots of his obsession with laws against improperly shaped cheese, whistling on a CB radio, and making unreasonable gestures to a passing horse.

Music: "Law and Order," by Lloyd Rodgers under a Public Domain Mark 1.0 License.

Produced, written, and hosted by Todd Krainin.

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Comments

[Eddy]

Yeah, lying to an FBI agent is a crime.

[Quixote]

As it should be, along with most of the other conduct described in books like this (Harvey Silverglate's "Three Felonies a Day" comes to mind--hopefully Chase doesn't refer to him). Federal legislators should also, of course, rapidly enact a statute criminalizing inappropriately deadpan "parody," as has been done in New York and several other states. See the documentation of our nation's leading criminal "satire" case at:

https://raphaelgolbtrial.wordpress.com/

[Brett Bellmore]

"The Swine Health Protection Act forbids feeding a pig garbage that hasn't been cooked by a garbage cooker (by someone with a garbage-cooking permit, naturally)."

I wouldn't entirely laugh at this one. Why did you suppose trichinosis is no longer a big problem in the US? Cooked garbage. It's actually a legitimate public health issue.

[Agammamon]

1. When was trichinosis a big problem in the US?

2. Because people cook their pork.

[FearlessFrazier]

A National Institute of Health report published in 1943 found 16.2% of the U.S. population to be infected with trichinosis (1 out of every 6 people). That's a pretty big problem.

Laws weren't initially passed to require cooking pig slop to prevent trichinosis, but for other diseases, vesicular exanthema (1953-1954) and the hog cholera eradication program (1962), but major declines in trichinosis infections resulted from those programs.

Trichinella cysts can actually survive internal temperatures that would correspond to medium rare in a steak for the amount of time it would take to get a steak to that temperature. This is why the USDA recommends pork be cooked to an internal temperature of 160, which gives a wide margin of error to kill the cysts no matter how short an amount of time it is at that temperature. But it's been so long since there has been a trichinosis problem (again, thanks to cooking slop and other hygiene measures), in recent decades many restaurants have started cooking pork chops medium rare.

[Echospinner]

Cysticercosis Is another one with similar characteristics. That is still around.

[loveconstitution1789]

Mexicans and South Americans have large endemic parasite infections.

[FearlessFrazier]

Exactly.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

You Can Get a Year in Jail for Feeding Garbage to a Pig

Feeding bullshit to constituents still totally legal.

[Brandybuck]

Yet it's okay to serve garbage in a public school cafeteria.

[Uncle Jay]

"You Can Get a Year in Jail for Feeding Garbage to a Pig."

Damn!
Then I won't be feeding Hillary any more of my food then.

[Unicorn Abattoir]

How dare you insult pigs like that. They give us bacon.

[Earth Skeptic]

How much time in jail for feeding politicians, activists, or "media" producers to pigs?

[Don't look at me!]

So no more donuts from the garbage can?

[LiborCon]

Yet you can get rich feeding garbage to humans.

[Tanjaddaniel]

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