Sprinklegate and Europe’s Permission Society

The Dangers of a Risk-Averse Culture: How Overregulation Stifles Innovation and Individual Choice

The hard-working people running Get Baked, a bakery in Leeds, England, were having a normal day—until, as the owner described, a “man in a boring tie” from West Yorkshire Trading Standards paid them a visit. The cause? A customer had inspected her pastry and reported the bakery for using illegal sprinkles, sparking a scandal now known as “Sprinklegate.”¹

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