It wasn't even just 10th grade... I learned about this shit in grade school, then again in civics class in Jr. High. Then again in American History in high school. Anyone who doesn't understand the risks here shouldn't be allowed outside by themselves.

As someone who works in materials/workplace safety, I can absolutely vouch that there are stupid regulations that should be scrapped. I have no doubt there are stupid regulations in food-safety, because there are stupid regulations everywhere. Recently here in the Netherlands we changed regulations for toxic residu in soil to distinguish between "Things that are bad for plants and animals" and "Things that are bad for humans". That made things more complex, but it also means you don't have to wear a hazmat suit to protect yourself from a dose of zink that's roughly equal to a multivitamin a day (which, funfact, will absolutely murder fish).

But you know who shouldn't get to decide which regulations are stupid? The people who stand to make money off of scrapping regulations.

Just give them a state, ship them all there and build a wall around it. Like some sort of big libertarian hunger games.