Show of hands, how many mush-heads are willing to latch onto a BS propaganda story and knee-jerk into instant outrage, without getting any real facts? Anyone? oh, apparently all of the above.
Take a look at the source, and then do some research into the REASON we pasteurize dairy products. SO PEOPLE DON'T GET SICK AND DIE!
I bet if one of you mush-heads got really sick from drinking an unlicensed product you'd be RUNNING to the nearest ambulance chaser lawyer to sue them for everything they got, then you'd sue the district attorney for not throwing these criminals in jail!
Now, these hippie-tards got busted but went back to doing it again ignoring the law.
They got sneaky trying to hide their illegal activities.
But apparently some of you don't think it's wrong to get busted for breaking the law. Evidently you want to get away with breaking the law too?
Now, onto that crap about a swat raid. Pure BS.
That stoopid hippie rag (I know, redundant) that published that BS made about half of it up and embellished the other half. But you still took the hook like good little guppies.
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3 arrested on raw-milk charges
L.A. County prosecutors allege that unpasteurized dairy products were sold illegally and did not meet health standards.
August 04, 2011|By Stuart Pfeifer and P.J. Huffstutter, Los Angeles Times
The owner of a Venice health food market and two other people were arrested on charges related to the allegedly unlawful production and sale of unpasteurized dairy products, a spokesman for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said.
The arrests of James Cecil Stewart, Sharon Ann Palmer and Eugenie Bloch on Wednesday marked the latest effort in a government crackdown on the sale of so-called raw dairy products.
Prosecutors in Los Angeles alleged that Stewart, 64, operates a Venice market called Rawesome Foods through which he illegally sold dairy products that did not meet health standards because they were unpasteurized or were produced at unlicensed facilities.
Palmer, 51, has operated Healthy Family Farms in Santa Paula since 2007 without the required licensing for milk production, prosecutors allege. She and her company face nine charges related to the production of unpasteurized milk products.
Bloch, a Healthy Family Farms employee, is charged with three counts of conspiracy.
The arrests followed a one-year investigation during which undercover agents purchased unpasteurized dairy products from Healthy Family Farms stands in Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, said Matthew Krasnowski, a district attorney spokesman. The products included unpasteurized goat milk, cheese and yogurt.
The arrests came the same week that federal and state health officials warned the public about a food-borne illness outbreak tied to ground turkey contaminated with antibiotic-resistant salmonella, an outbreak in which one Californian has died and 76 others have fallen ill so far.
It also marks the latest salvo in the government's crackdown on unpasteurized dairy products.
In June 2010 investigators raided the Venice grocery store, seizing stacks of unmarked jugs of raw milk, cartons of raw goat and cow milk, and blocks of unpasteurized goat cheese, among other grocery items. Regulators alleged that Rawesome broke the law by failing to have the proper permits to sell food to the public.
Still, no arrests were made and Rawesome reopened the same week. Stewart said at the time that Rawesome didn't need such permits because it wasn't technically a retailer. He contended that the store was a private club whose members paid an annual fee and service charges to obtain products directly from farmers.
While the raid was taking place in Venice, another was occurring at Palmer's Healthy Family Farms in Ventura County. There, California agriculture officials said, the farm owner's milk processing plant had not met standards to obtain a license to sell raw milk or raw milk products. Shortly after the raid, Palmer was back in business.
Demand for all manner of raw foods has been growing, spurred by heightened interest in locally produced, unprocessed products.
L.A. County arrests 3 over raw milk - Los Angeles Times
Raw milk, in particular, has drawn regulatory scrutiny, largely because the politically powerful dairy industry has pressed the government to act. It is legal for licensed dairies to sell raw milk at retail outlets in California, according to research by the National Conference of State Legislatures. But the number of such outlets has dwindled amid retailer concerns over potential litigation.
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