SC - Profit was Opinions?

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

Morgana Abbey wrote:
> 
> OK, I'm really at wits' end here, and I want a heads up type of answer.
> (Master A, you're on the opposite end of the state, but the laws and regs
> don't change.)
> 
> I have people here yammering at me that "it's against the law to serve
> game."  They go on more than that, the upshot being that my idea to serve
> a period-style hunters' feast at an archery event is somehow banned by
> Corpora.
> 
> Since when?  and when did SCA feasts stop being in the same legal
> neighborhood as church suppers?  They are even saying that we have to
> save the barcodes from the canned goods "because someone might get food
> poisoning"
> 
> If any of this is going to be true, I really will shread my membership.
> As it is, I have no desire to do so much as bake muffins for this lot.
> They can eat KFC 'til their arteries implode.

I _think_ the legal thingy is that it is against the law in New York
State (and some other states) to _sell_  _wild game_ taken in the state.
This was the deal in New York the last time I checked. Domestically
raised "game" animals, venison, pheasants, whatever, are fine for
commercial sale, fine for serving to friends, whatever. My butcher sells
various kinds. Wild game is fine for a non-commercial setting. If you're
having game donated for a feast, it probably can be justified fairly
easily, for example by having everybody pre-reg, so no money that can be
easily said to be in payment for the game changes hands on the day of
the event.  

I'm sure I'm shocking the List-Luddites, but what the hey. I live in the
New York City of Giuliani the First, I no longer remember what personal
freedoms are.

Adamantius
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