At first the regulations were prohibitively too expensive. But then TN relented.
When I first tried to sell my cage free chicken and duck eggs, there were these restrictions that the eggs had to be washed in bleach, in a special room that was only designed for washing eggs and with many restrictions on that room and adjacent house. I had to get an annual inspection to be able to sell my eggs. One of the restrictions was no pets in the house, not just the room. The house the room was in could not have pets. (These eggs come from the butts of messy chickens but pets are a problem if they live in the house where eggs are washed?) The room use to be a laundry room and was off the kitchen. In the living room two rooms away, I had my daughter's gold fish.
I failed my inspection and I could no longer sell eggs because one inspector said fish were pets and I had to be remove them from my house. I was NOT going to get rid of my daughter's gold fish and what about all those restaurants that have aquariums or lobster tanks? Why are they allowed to cook food near "pets"?
It was ridiculous regulations like this that prevented small farmers from competing with the corporate producers. It was kind of weird because about that time they had that huge tainted egg scare where millions of eggs had been contaminated with salmonella. The eggs were from Ohio and the facilities where the eggs were wash had not been inspected in over 7 year. But my place was inspected every year.
About 3 years later TN changed the law.
Regulations are good and they are necessary but they need to be reasonable and not designed to limit the small guys.
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