A SWAT raid? Really?

[azasadny]

Meanwhile, the Afghans are growing poppies to process into heroin and we're giving them 120B a month. Makes sense to me...

[targa911S]

Originally Posted by stomachmonkey

Interesting, I often decide what I want to eat based on what my body is "telling" me it needs/craves.

is that why I eat grass? (no NOT THAT grass)

[Aurel]

Unpasteurized is the only way to make good cheese. Been done for hundreds of years in France, and we have the best in the world.

[RWebb]

you realize an Orygun blue cheese stuck it to you guys in a cheese-off last year, right?

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by widebody911

Why call in the big guns for some hippy selling milk and cheese?

Breaking news: Multi-agency armed raid hits Rawesome Foods, Healthy Family Farms for selling raw milk and cheese

Somebody has it out for this guy.

James is now being held at the Pacific division police department at Centinela and Culver in Los Angeles. He is being held at $123,000 bail with no possibility of using bail bonds. Law enforcement has demanded that if he comes up with the money to cover bail, he must disclose to them all the sources of that money. (This is an illegal demand!)

Learn more: Breaking news: Multi-agency armed raid hits Rawesome Foods, Healthy Family Farms for selling raw milk and cheese

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by RWebb

you realize an Orygun blue cheese stuck it to you guys in a cheese-off last year, right?

Still doesn't take away from the fact that the French have great cheese all over the place. You don't have to look hard to find great cheese in France..

[Bill Douglas]

Italy has un-pasturised milk. That's why their cheeses are so good. In NZ we don't as we are one of those careful, careful countrys.

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by kach22i

Somebody has it out for this guy.

If bail is set, i would assume that he has been charged with something.
Yet nothing i read covers that.

[svandamme]

Cops Raid Rawesome Foods; Owner James Stewart Arrested - Los Angeles Restaurants and Dining - Squid Ink

[Update, 2:36 p.m.: The official word from the DA's office is that Stewart, Palmer & Bloch were arrested on criminal conspiracy charges stemming from the alleged illegal production and sale of unpasteurized goat milk, goat cheese, yogurt and kefir. The arrests are the result of a year-long sting. The 13-count complaint alleges that an undercover agent received goat milk, stored in a cooler in the back of Healthy Family Farms van, in the parking lot of a grocery store. While it's legal to manufacture and sell unpasteurized dairy products in California, licenses and permits are required. Rawesome may have violated regulations by selling raw dairy products to non-members.

[Lothar]

If we had Obama's Hitler Youth already, they could have used this raid as a training exercise. Remember how Obama wants a civilian security force as powerful and well funded as the military? I suppose they could be at the disposal of the Secretary of Agriculture.

This is another fine example of tyranny. I seemed to remember the term, "jack-booted thugs", which comes to mind in situations like this.

[Brando]

It's not just about enforcement, anymore. It's also about a show of force.

[svandamme]

Apparently he was released

UPDATE: LA Health Food Store Owner Released | TakePart - Inspiration to Action

James Stewart, the owner of the popular health foods store Rawesome foods in Los Angeles has been released on bail, one week after armed officers raided his shop for allegedly conspiring to illegally sell raw dairy products.

According to the LA Weekly, Stewart was released on $30,000 bail and told he could not sell unpasteurized dairy without a license.

Of the two other defendants swept up in the raid, Healthy Family Farms employees Sharon Palmer and Victoria Bloch, only Palmer has yet to be arraigned.

Stewart and his colleagues are accused of failing to fill out the proper paperwork to sell raw daily products in California:

While it's legal to manufacture and sell unpasteurized dairy products in California, licenses and permits are required. The 13-count indictment against Stewart, Palmer and Bloch alleges they sold raw milk and other raw dairy products without the proper permits and health safeguards.

The Raw Milk Three, as they've been dubbed by their supporters, aren't talking to the press because they've been slapped with a gag order by the judge.

Rawesome, which was featured in the documentary Farmageddon, is now the subject of a viral support campaign on the internet. The trio's supporters are being urged to use Tweet with the hashtags #rawesome and #farmageddon. NaturalNews.com has more information on how to show your support for Rawesome and the Raw Milk Three.

[TRE Cup]

On the surface , given facts published, this looks like abuse by the system.
When businesses in the LA County area are found to be violating a law, it is usually handled with an immediate warning or citation. Sometimes the citation may include a cease/desist order (shut down of operations) if there is public health concerns.

In this situation , it looks like none of the preliminary enforcement steps happened

Raw dairy products have been sold for years, and sure the company should have its proper permits.

Seeing how harsh this is going so far for the defendants, makes me wonder what the real story is

[kach22i]

licenses and permits are required

The government want their money, their cut.

Like the mob.

[Burnin' oil]

What the heck kind of world do we live in where it is a crime to sell food? Ass-bites, everyone of 'em.

[A930Rocket]

Geez, the penalty for cutting the cheese has gotten out of hand...

[RWebb]

some related news:

health food store Rawsome in Venice, Cal. which distributes raw milk and room-temperature eggs to to club members was raided by federal agents and local sheriffs deputies

the 64 year old founder, James Stewart was charged with 6 felonies and 7 misdemeanors

in April, FDA agents, US Marshals and a Penn. State Trooper charged Amish dairy farmer Dan Allgyer of Kinzers, Penn. with illegal transport of raw milk across state lines for selling raw milk from his dairy cattle to a small buyer's club in Md.

why is the FDA so interested in raw milk all of a sudden?

is it the extraordinary diseases being spread?

the incredible death rate?

well, there has been no trace of either in the raw milk of these two producers


or maybe it is a guy named Michael Taylor...

Mr. Taylor is a former lobbyist for Monsanto Corp. -- the genetically engineered food corporation -- and he is now the Deputy Commissioner for Foods at the FDA

Mr. Taylor helped Monsanto win FDA approval for its artificial bovine growth hormone in the 1990s

Dairies who did want to use this GMO additive began labeling their milk "rGBH-free" but Mr. Taylor tried to prohibit them from accurately labeling their own products (he failed that time)

Why wasn't the FDA more interested in the 1,600 people who were sickened by the factory-farm egg producers, Hillandale Farms and Wright County Egg Corp.? Those people got Salmonella poisoning, and the factory-farms were found to have numerous health and safety violations, yet there were zero prosecutions, even nearly 2 years later.

[futuresoptions]

These type of stories should make it clear why folks were dancing at the JM and why people were occupying the federal reserve (which isn't a part of the federal Gov't, it's privately owned).

[Rot 911]

They were breaking the law, the should pay. Just like those dancers at the Jefferson Memorial.

[aap1966]

Pasteurisation has greatly reduced the incidence of milk bourne diseases. After WWII, it was so bad that the milk was famously described as "little more than dilute tubercular pus". It's a bit like vaccination. Vaccination has made some diseases such as polio vanishingly rare, so now we have people saying " Why vaccinate? "