Other rules, such as transporting dairy or produce, or slaughtering animals out in the back yard, ought to be done in a prescribed, proven method to reduce the inherent health risks associated with such activity.
[/quote=benjammin]

Balderdash. The rules of commercial poultry raising are created to facilitate an environment in which cows are dragging their swollen udders in a vast pile of their own contaminated feces, where chickens are fed their own excrement, and where milk is pasteurized to compensate for the filthy facilities in which the cows are milked. I know all of this by direct experience having worked on a farm in my youth. The "inherent risks" you speak of are a direct result of the dire hygenic conditions precipitated by the massive application of antibiotics.

[quote=benjammin]
Perhaps you exercise all the hygenic effort necessary to prevent the spread of disease, contamination, or pests. However, rules such as these are in effect because at some point, some bozo decided to slaughter his chickens in the back yard, and he was not too careful about how he went about it, and maybe some kid or woman saw him doing it and took offense, or the blood and guts entered the public domain or some such and now you've got a public nuisance issue, and possibly a health concern, and so those activities have to be regulated somehow.
[/quote=benjammin]

As, yes, the "it happened once" so we all must pay arguments. Classic of a governmental agency - it's easier to criminalize everyone and everything, rather than take on the hard work of living in a free society.

[quote=benjammin]
I bet no one's ever come to your home to check and see if you are in fact sitting inside the house drinking beer, unless someone saw you do it and for some reason took offense and called the authorities. Likely if you are prudent about your actions, that would not be possible. It is the careless that get popped for this sort of thing.