; but unfortunately silver also kills people.
PS: yet another http://xkcd.com/1217/
PS: yet another http://xkcd.com/1217/
There are tons of delicious foods that you can't buy in any restaurant or store no matter how much you're willing to pay, because a small percentage of people are allergic or whatever. So the entire population gets essentially zero use out of them even though they could be useful to the vast majority of people. (In fact, restaurants/stores/farmers markets only carry only a small percentage of the total foods out there.) Similarly a ride at an amusement park that is safe for the vast majority of people is a ride that no one is going to be allowed to go on.
Medicine is just a special case because doctors generally won't lose their license for killing the occasional patient, whereas, say, a restaurateur probably would.
Rollercoaster is dangerous to anyone with weak skeleton, and can likely induce heart attack as can a horror movie. Here's a counter-example to your other claim.
Do you have any examples that support your claims?
I did not find anything special in it, by the way. :)
Peanuts are banned from most schools.
> Another one is Fugu fish, which I personally ate at a restaurant, and which are known to be deadly if not prepared correctly.
That applies to most foods, e.g. tomatoes, rhubarb, etc.
When is the last time you had chicken-of-the-woods in a restaurant though? Oh wait, never. Because 90% of people find them delicious, but the other 10% cyanose and then start projectile vomiting and shitting themselves. Of course on your own that's not a big deal because you just bioassay it on yourself first, but in a restaurant that doesn't work.
Well, that's a far cry from you can't buy in any restaurant or store no matter how much you're willing to pay.
So, we have established there are foods that are dangerous and can be had at a restaurant (raw fish, raw meat, peanuts, fugu), and there could be some foods that are dangerous and cannot be had at a restaurant (chicken-of-the-woods).
That's much less dramatic now, is it not?
Kind of an extreme example, though. I don't think that it justifies the notion that society suffers under a tragedy of many useful foods being unavailable. I also would need to be persuaded of that.
There are other animal-based ones that aren't really health related. E.g. restaurants aren't allowed to serve meat that's not FDA inspected, but the FDA only inspects a small variety of meats. There was a restaurant in SF that was serving cricket tacos and they got shut down because of this:
My understanding is that although there are a ton of regulations restricting the sale of food, the health reasons cited are generally dubious, rather than genuine. The chicken-of-the-woods thing is obviously genuine, and I'd believe the same for a lot of different mushrooms. I've purchased about 20 species of wild fungi and I'm basically content with that variety. Raw milk / cheese I would say was a dubious health reason.
Side note: if a reply link isn't there, you just need to wait a bit longer.
Not being a US citizen, I really don't care about your politics, but these sort of nonsensical comments really stand out.
First time I hear about that. An US thing?
Long before it kills anyone, it may turn them blue. And if that is happening, chances are you are taking way too much. Too much of any good thing is a bad idea.