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I mean... you may not be able to distribute food, but as far as I know, it's certainly not illegal to create a social networking app where someone can say "I'm

I mean... you may not be able to distribute food, but as far as I know, it's certainly not illegal to create a social networking app where someone can say "I'm interested in a sandwich" and another person says "I'll make you a sandwich for $5". If Tinder is legal, I don't see how that could not be.

goatherders 9y ago
Because Tinder isnt bound by the FDA or any commercial food distribution regulations. Try again.
- tathougies 9y ago
  Neither is connecting people to cook food for each other. If your tinder date cooks you breakfast, has anyone run afoul of food safety laws? You can't be a food distributor if you're not distributing food. I've gone to our local small business seminars for food service, and I've been told that as long as you're not handling food at any point, you can't be held responsible.
ShannonAlther 9y ago
I'm also in the "everything is kind of okay in my workflow" boat. One of the major problems I hear about and encounter frequently is that biotech is a painful industry. Creating and selling new drugs takes decades and costs millions of dollars. This isn't some immutable law of pharmacology, it's because drugs have to be approved by regulatory agencies like the FDA, and no amount of clever engineering is going to make clinical trials less onerous. I think just about every industry that seems, from the outside, to have exploitable conditions like this has hidden barriers. The taxi industry looked exploitable, but in fact was tightly regulated. Uber has managed to capture some of the market by pretending to not be a taxi company, and wound up in a plethora of legal battles for their trouble. I propose that how obvious or necessary a business idea appears at first glance is directly proportional to how difficult it would be to implement.

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I mean... you may not be able to distribute food, but as far as I know, it's certainly not illegal to create a social networking app where someone can say "I'm

by tathougies 9y ago

goatherders 9y ago
Because Tinder isnt bound by the FDA or any commercial food distribution regulations. Try again.
- tathougies 9y ago
  Neither is connecting people to cook food for each other. If your tinder date cooks you breakfast, has anyone run afoul of food safety laws? You can't be a food distributor if you're not distributing food. I've gone to our local small business seminars for food service, and I've been told that as long as you're not handling food at any point, you can't be held responsible.
ShannonAlther 9y ago
I'm also in the "everything is kind of okay in my workflow" boat. One of the major problems I hear about and encounter frequently is that biotech is a painful industry. Creating and selling new drugs takes decades and costs millions of dollars. This isn't some immutable law of pharmacology, it's because drugs have to be approved by regulatory agencies like the FDA, and no amount of clever engineering is going to make clinical trials less onerous. I think just about every industry that seems, from the outside, to have exploitable conditions like this has hidden barriers. The taxi industry looked exploitable, but in fact was tightly regulated. Uber has managed to capture some of the market by pretending to not be a taxi company, and wound up in a plethora of legal battles for their trouble. I propose that how obvious or necessary a business idea appears at first glance is directly proportional to how difficult it would be to implement.