Wellll, STRICTLY speaking, locking a villager in the alchemy lab to help prevent village starvation, is not a violation of SPCV policies. Neither is "forcing" a villager to learn farming in an effort to prevent starvation of the tribe.
You missed the other part.
you're going to be up to your eyebrows in orchid-potions, and when one of them blows up . . .
Remember what orchid-orchid-orchid does? Furthermore, remember what alchemy explosions do to very weakened villagers? I think the roster lists it as 'work accident' . . .