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 ???

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

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

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.

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

Somebody has it out for this guy.

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..

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.

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

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

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.

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

Apparently he was released

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

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:confused:

The government want their money, their cut.

Like the mob.

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

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

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.

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).

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? "