A SWAT raid? Really?
 

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

Because we are living in a nanny state and compliance is everything.

Unpasteurized milk and cheese no less.

Sounds like they think it's a drug front.

must be some really strong cheese if you can "get off on it"

I don't buy it. There was nothing else going on? Come one......

Come on! This is a direct violation of the Dairy Statutes! Can't be tolerated!

It's a crime to pay in cash, and to be "different".
The corporate overseers no-likey this.

Things to note from the artical were no drugs were found, the amount of the money "confiscated" was not released, and no other evidence of wrongdoing was present.

Unsterilized dairy products have been used for many thousands of years.

The human G.I. tract is literally a symbiotic relationship with bacteria. We maintain a large culture within our guts which breaks down ingested food to be absorbed. Without this beneficial bacteria, our digestive tract would literally clog and burst.
This is why dairy products have bacteria artificially added back into the product(after it's sterilized for shelf-life of course).

It's quite possible our hunger instincts are partially driven by a feedback mechanism: our guts tell the brain to eat the foods which the bacteria need.

Why is it illegal to sell unpasteurized milk and cheese?

Big dairy conglomerates have lobbied to make it so.

there actually are some safety issues - w/o that, you rely on the care & expertise of the farmer/milker/cheesemaker

it can work out just fine - Oregon has (or had, may have changed in last year or so) raw milk for example - as does France...

My GF eats a fair bit of yogurt and buttermilk. She lauds the health benefits. She's a health care worker. Anyway, I'm very concerned. She makes her own yogurt and buttermilk out of regular milk. I wonder if the authorities are planning a raid on her property.

We are now.

BBIWY

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

My body is telling me that it needs a hot fudge sundae from Baskin Robbins pretty soon. Or if not "needs", could really appreciate.

Was there a single confirmed illness associated with the company?

With dairy products, "bad" is usually obtuse. Not so much so in meat and pharmacuticals.

My body is telling me to have a cold beer and perhaps a grilled steak.

Just as long as they don't make raids on her panties !


The fact is, that as long as there has been authority, there has been abuse.

If you like your dairy rawesome, write your Senator or Congressman.

No need to PARF it up.

So no warrent, rights not read? Why not haul his ass off to Gitmo.. Unpasteurized milk? correct me iff i'm wrong, but that's a Biological weapon of Massdestruction , right??

If you see how many turkey had to be recalled, and that was supposed to be free of bacteria.. So this unpasteurized milk must have the capacity to bring the whole country down right? Isn't this how Zombie epedemics start ???