Government stops 11 year old from selling Cupcakes

[Zander]

Government run amok. How dare this little girl start a business!!

The local health department read a newspaper story about an 11 year old girl's cupcake business and decided to take the bitch down!! How dare she run a cupcake business without a SEPARATE KITCHEN!!!


The government has pulled the plug on an 11-year-old Illinois baker’s oven.

A day after a local newspaper ran a story about the young and ambitious Chloe Stirling, who operated a cupcake business out of her parents’ kitchen, the local health department came calling.

“They called and said they were shutting us down,” Heather Stirling, Chloe’s mother, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Officials told Stirling Chloe could continue selling cupcakes on the condition that the family “buy a bakery or build her a kitchen separate from the one we have.”

“Obviously, we can’t do that,” Heather Stirling told reporters. “We’ve already given her a little refrigerator to keep her things in, and her grandparents bought her a stand mixer.”

The elder Stirling said that she was willing to get her daughter any necessary licenses or permits to operate a business, but could not meet the health department’s other demands.

“But a separate kitchen? Who can do that?” asked an astonished Stirling.

Government shuts down 11-year-old's cupcake business | The Daily Caller

This kind of thing gets me fighting mad! GRRR!!!!! I had a lemonade stand when I was 10 years old. I saved the money I *earned* to buy a new Baseball Glove. I think back on those days- it was so exciting to be taking action towards achieving a goal! and that wonderful feeling of accomplishment I felt after I'd collected enough (about $20) to buy the new glove ...it honestly motivated me for the rest of my life. It motivates me today!

We should all be disgusted by this.

*Of course, the lemons and sugar were generously "donated" by my mom...

 

[norwegen]

When reporters approached Amy Yeager, a health department spokeswoman, about the county’s decision to shut down Chloe’s business, she said that she was doing it for the sake of the public.

This is always the government's excuse, which is completely backwards. To act for the sake of the public would be to do what the public wants, which is the child's cupcakes.

 

[BlindBoo]

That blasted Government

In this case it was the Madison County Health Department .

This was in the DC comments. Pretty funny.

"When cupcakes are outlawed, only outlaws will have cupcakes."

Even funnier was the comment blaming Obama!!!!

 

[MDiver]

I can see both sides of this.
1. The Health Department has a repsonsibility to see to it that food sellers are selling food prepared in an environment that is healthy (i.e., clean, meeting health code guidelines, rodent and insect free). Noncompliance gets restaurants and food trucks shut down. A residential kitchen wouldn't meet the guidelines.
2. She's just a kid trying to make a buck. So, they should have just let it be.
3. A law needs to be enacted in the communities that exempts childrens little stands. With a provision that if you get sick and/or die from ingesting a cupcake purchased from some sidewalk stand, you have only yourself to blame and shouldn't be allowed to sue the city, or the family responsible for selling it to you.

 

[Mr Natural]

Local governments are the most repressive.

 

[Truthseeker420]

I can see both sides of this.
1. The Health Department has a repsonsibility to see to it that food sellers are selling food prepared in an environment that is healthy (i.e., clean, meeting health code guidelines, rodent and insect free). Noncompliance gets restaurants and food trucks shut down. A residential kitchen wouldn't meet the guidelines.
2. She's just a kid trying to make a buck. So, they should have just let it be.
3. A law needs to be enacted in the communities that exempts childrens little stands. With a provision that if you get sick and/or die from ingesting a cupcake purchased from some sidewalk stand, you have only yourself to blame and shouldn't be allowed to sue the city, or the family responsible for selling it to you.

What if it is a child that died from eating the cupcake?

 

[Jughead]

Government run amok. How dare this little girl start a business!!

This kind of thing gets me fighting mad! GRRR!!!!! I had a lemonade stand when I was 10 years old. I saved the money I *earned* to buy a new Baseball Glove. I think back on those days- it was so exciting to be taking action towards achieving a goal! and that wonderful feeling of accomplishment I felt after I'd collected enough (about $20) to buy the new glove ...it honestly motivated me for the rest of my life. It motivates me today!

We should all be disgusted by this.

*Of course, the lemons and sugar were generously "donated" by my mom...

I'm with you. As a kid, I recall many of us setting up lemonade stands on the sidewalks in our neighborhood. That was a part of being a kid. So was getting cookies from my friend's moms while playing outside. Unfortunately for the most part, that era of innocence is no more. I am not a huge fan of change, and this is just one reason why.

The government is overstepping it's boundary here, let kids be kids. If someone feels uneasy with buying the cupcakes, then don't buy them, but let those of us who want to help the kids have the option of buying the cupcakes.

 

[norwegen]

I can see both sides of this.
1. The Health Department has a repsonsibility to see to it that food sellers are selling food prepared in an environment that is healthy (i.e., clean, meeting health code guidelines, rodent and insect free). Noncompliance gets restaurants and food trucks shut down. A residential kitchen wouldn't meet the guidelines.

I for one am smart enough to know that private kitchens don't have to meet code. Health departments need not be responsible for me and any cupcakes or lemonade that I buy from a child. It's insulting to think that I need a babysitter.

Perhaps big-government lefties need the extra help, but I don't.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

I can see both sides of this.
1. The Health Department has a repsonsibility to see to it that food sellers are selling food prepared in an environment that is healthy (i.e., clean, meeting health code guidelines, rodent and insect free). Noncompliance gets restaurants and food trucks shut down. A residential kitchen wouldn't meet the guidelines.
2. She's just a kid trying to make a buck. So, they should have just let it be.
3. A law needs to be enacted in the communities that exempts childrens little stands. With a provision that if you get sick and/or die from ingesting a cupcake purchased from some sidewalk stand, you have only yourself to blame and shouldn't be allowed to sue the city, or the family responsible for selling it to you.

Bullshit...the health dept.'s all over do absolutely nothing about existing disgusting kitchens in restaurants everywhere. Anyone who has ever done any business with restaurants would be floored at how dirty MANY restaurants are. Especially Mexican and Asian establishments.
Take it from someone who has been in several.

 

[blastoff]

There's gotta be more to this story. I'm betting when the dust settles we'll find out she was dealing in assault cupcakes.

 

[martybegan]

I can see both sides of this.
1. The Health Department has a repsonsibility to see to it that food sellers are selling food prepared in an environment that is healthy (i.e., clean, meeting health code guidelines, rodent and insect free). Noncompliance gets restaurants and food trucks shut down. A residential kitchen wouldn't meet the guidelines.
2. She's just a kid trying to make a buck. So, they should have just let it be.
3. A law needs to be enacted in the communities that exempts childrens little stands. With a provision that if you get sick and/or die from ingesting a cupcake purchased from some sidewalk stand, you have only yourself to blame and shouldn't be allowed to sue the city, or the family responsible for selling it to you.

What if it is a child that died from eating the cupcake?

What happens if a child dies eating a cupcake from a regular resturant?

 

[norwegen]

I can see both sides of this.
1. The Health Department has a repsonsibility to see to it that food sellers are selling food prepared in an environment that is healthy (i.e., clean, meeting health code guidelines, rodent and insect free). Noncompliance gets restaurants and food trucks shut down. A residential kitchen wouldn't meet the guidelines.
2. She's just a kid trying to make a buck. So, they should have just let it be.
3. A law needs to be enacted in the communities that exempts childrens little stands. With a provision that if you get sick and/or die from ingesting a cupcake purchased from some sidewalk stand, you have only yourself to blame and shouldn't be allowed to sue the city, or the family responsible for selling it to you.

What if it is a child that died from eating the cupcake?

What happens if a child dies eating a cupcake from a regular resturant?

Housewives, bachelors, just about all of us, really, ought to take issue with government believing it can maintain our kitchens better than we can.

How often do people die or ail from home cooking?

Government run amok is the reason this little girl can longer be charitable (at least in the way she chooses).

 

[MDiver]

If a kid dies from eating a cupcake from a non-regulated source, have another kid and warn them about what sidewalk stand to avoid.

 

[Zander]

Nobody is dying from eating a cupcake purchased from a kid who made them. They might gag, but die?

 

[baker001]

If this girl or her parents had just spent about 5 seconds on Google, they could have avoided this. Or just ignore the law and bitch and moan that it shouldn't apply to 11 year olds when you get caught. Whatever.

After a quick search on Google, I found that IL has a cottage food operation law that allows for small operations out of ones home.

The Cottage Food Operation law (P.A.097-0393) became effective in Illinois on January 1, 2012. This new law allows certain foods made in home kitchens to be sold at Illinois farmers’ markets with limited regulation. The purpose of the law is to promote and support the Illinois agriculture and cottage food industries.

The products that can be made in a home kitchen and sold at a farmers’ market include:

• Certain fruit-based jams, jellies and preserves.

• Fruit butters.

• Baked goods (i.e. breads, cookies, cakes, pies, and pastries).

• Dried foods (i.e. herbs and teas).

The law does not allow these homemade products to be sold in retail stores or any location other than an Illinois farmers’ market. In addition, the products must meet specific labeling requirements and the vendor must register the cottage food operation with the local health department where the business is located.

I'd link to the law, but I don't have enough posts yet. But a quick Google search will find it for you.

 

[Lonestar_logic]

I can see both sides of this.
1. The Health Department has a repsonsibility to see to it that food sellers are selling food prepared in an environment that is healthy (i.e., clean, meeting health code guidelines, rodent and insect free). Noncompliance gets restaurants and food trucks shut down. A residential kitchen wouldn't meet the guidelines.
2. She's just a kid trying to make a buck. So, they should have just let it be.
3. A law needs to be enacted in the communities that exempts childrens little stands. With a provision that if you get sick and/or die from ingesting a cupcake purchased from some sidewalk stand, you have only yourself to blame and shouldn't be allowed to sue the city, or the family responsible for selling it to you.

What if it is a child that died from eating the cupcake?

Then the parents can sue and become millionaires.

 

[BlindBoo]

There's gotta be more to this story. I'm betting when the dust settles we'll find out she was dealing in assault cupcakes.

Probably has some with sprinkles that were over the limit too!

 

[Lonestar_logic]

If this girl or her parents had just spent about 5 seconds on Google, they could have avoided this. Or just ignore the law and bitch and moan that it shouldn't apply to 11 year olds when you get caught. Whatever.

After a quick search on Google, I found that IL has a cottage food operation law that allows for small operations out of ones home.

The Cottage Food Operation law (P.A.097-0393) became effective in Illinois on January 1, 2012. This new law allows certain foods made in home kitchens to be sold at Illinois farmers’ markets with limited regulation. The purpose of the law is to promote and support the Illinois agriculture and cottage food industries.

The products that can be made in a home kitchen and sold at a farmers’ market include:

• Certain fruit-based jams, jellies and preserves.

• Fruit butters.

• Baked goods (i.e. breads, cookies, cakes, pies, and pastries).

• Dried foods (i.e. herbs and teas).

The law does not allow these homemade products to be sold in retail stores or any location other than an Illinois farmers’ market. In addition, the products must meet specific labeling requirements and the vendor must register the cottage food operation with the local health department where the business is located.

I'd link to the law, but I don't have enough posts yet. But a quick Google search will find it for you.

Just because it's a law doesn't mean it's right.

Stupid laws have been around for a long time. Many still on the books.

This from a liberal approved source.

17 Ridiculous Laws Still On The Books In The U.S.

And this:

50 States, 50 Ridiculous Laws!

 

[RoadVirus]

I can see both sides of this.
1. The Health Department has a repsonsibility to see to it that food sellers are selling food prepared in an environment that is healthy (i.e., clean, meeting health code guidelines, rodent and insect free). Noncompliance gets restaurants and food trucks shut down. A residential kitchen wouldn't meet the guidelines.
2. She's just a kid trying to make a buck. So, they should have just let it be.
3. A law needs to be enacted in the communities that exempts childrens little stands. With a provision that if you get sick and/or die from ingesting a cupcake purchased from some sidewalk stand, you have only yourself to blame and shouldn't be allowed to sue the city, or the family responsible for selling it to you.

Bullshit...the health dept.'s all over do absolutely nothing about existing disgusting kitchens in restaurants everywhere. Anyone who has ever done any business with restaurants would be floored at how dirty MANY restaurants are. Especially Mexican and Asian establishments.
Take it from someone who has been in several.

Not to mention cruise ships. It seems like dozens of times a year, there's a news story about a bug outbreak on a ship. In fact, there was one just the other day.

 

[depotoo]

If this girl or her parents had just spent about 5 seconds on Google, they could have avoided this. Or just ignore the law and bitch and moan that it shouldn't apply to 11 year olds when you get caught. Whatever.

After a quick search on Google, I found that IL has a cottage food operation law that allows for small operations out of ones home.

The Cottage Food Operation law (P.A.097-0393) became effective in Illinois on January 1, 2012. This new law allows certain foods made in home kitchens to be sold at Illinois farmers’ markets with limited regulation. The purpose of the law is to promote and support the Illinois agriculture and cottage food industries.

The products that can be made in a home kitchen and sold at a farmers’ market include:

• Certain fruit-based jams, jellies and preserves.

• Fruit butters.

• Baked goods (i.e. breads, cookies, cakes, pies, and pastries).

• Dried foods (i.e. herbs and teas).

The law does not allow these homemade products to be sold in retail stores or any location other than an Illinois farmers’ market. In addition, the products must meet specific labeling requirements and the vendor must register the cottage food operation with the local health department where the business is located.

I'd link to the law, but I don't have enough posts yet. But a quick Google search will find it for you.

Oh, please. Really? What child would go to all that trouble for just wanting to make a few bucks? Must be certified, registered, pay fees, only sell at farmers market, label each and every cupcake. Get real.