Well, I am all for food inspection laws, but the picture painted by the article does not indicate this was intended to be a business. It is more like if you ate

Well, I am all for food inspection laws, but the picture painted by the article does not indicate this was intended to be a business. It is more like if you ate at a friend's house and helped cover the cost of the meal because the friend was poor. We don't have to declare taxes if we make less than $600 on some activity. It isn't considered a real business if you only occasionally make a few bucks here and there. This "sting" operation targeting a pot luck group seems ridiculous. I was a military wife. We needed to go through training to participate in certain things, like food sales as a means to raise funds. I never bothered to go through that training. It never prevented me from bringing a dish from home to a potluck meal at the unit. As someone who gets food poisoning easily, I am all for there being strict laws concerning even small scale commercial food things. But this does not sound like it really was a commercial venture. This is just ridiculous. Surely, we have more serious concerns for our cops to be attending to than trying to break a potluck ring. Sheesh.