This is just going to get worse before it gets better. And I’d like to find some investigative report on this.
A multi-agency SWAT-style armed raid was conducted this morning by helmet-wearing, gun-carrying enforcement agents from the LA County Sheriff’s Office, the FDA, the Dept. of Agriculture and the CDC (Centers for Disease Control). Rawesome Foods, a private buying club offering wholesome, natural raw milk and raw cheese products (among other wholesome foods) is founded by James Stewart, a pioneer in bringing wholesome raw foods directly to consumers through a buying club. James was followed from his private residence by law enforcement, and when he entered his store, the raid was launched.
Law enforcement demanded that all customers (members) of the store vacate the premises, then they demanded to know how much cash James had at the store. When James explained the amount of cash he had at the store — which is used to purchase product for selling there — agents demanded to know why he had such an amount of cash and where it came from.
James was handcuffed, was NEVER read his rights and was stuffed into an UNMARKED car.
Related link on other crackdowns.
Only in America……………. (sic!)
Progressive Control Agents at work. And you thought that it will end at banning cigarettes and taking overweight children from their parents… In order for this to stop not a single Progressive must be left in charge of anything – vote.
So the FDA has a SWAT team. And it had been previously reported that the Dept of Education also has a SWAT team.
But when we were all arguing over the debt ceiling no one could find a single government program that could be cut.
Instead we just reduced (slightly) the amount of the increase in spending. So next year the FDA can hire more SWAT teams.
Didn’t this happen months ago? I’m in LA and remember the story from local news.
Another miserable example of the police state, none the less, even if the “raw foods movement” is about as silly as the “Christian Scientists”. I wish milk borne bacterial infections to all those who participated.
“wholesome, natural raw milk” You ever see a cows tits before its milked? I will stick with pasteurized thank you. Raw and wholesome do not always belong in the same sentence.
More of the Curry/Dvorak No Agenda’s Agenda!
Dvorak and Curry only do half-assed research, just enough to prove their agendas, not enough to be reliable.
I’ve drunk raw milk. We milked our own cow till I was about ten or eleven. If the cow doesn’t have TB, etc., they won’t give it to you.
Pasteurized is safer but people should have a right to decide.
I still think these nanny state SS goon tactics should be stopped before Der fuhrer and his elite “We know best. Set down and shut up under people” becomes even more oppressive.
I’ve got your raw milk right here.
http://www.theworldsbestever.com/2011/08/03/the-booby-blonde-whos-still-a-teenager/
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When I was a kid in Ohio, we lived down the street from a dairy farm. We used to go down there several times a week with a pitcher, and fill up right from the machine. Not one time during those years did my mother, my brother, or I EVER get sick from it. This is ridiculous.
God help them if they spill any of the milk.
We all understand why the EPA was given the power to issue regulations to guard against oil spills, such as that of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska. But not everyone understands that any power given to any bureaucracy for any purpose can be stretched far beyond the original purpose.
The EPA has decided that, since milk contains oil, it has the authority to force farmers to comply with new regulations to file “emergency management” plans to show how they will cope with spilled milk, how farmers will train “first responders” and build “containment facilities” if there is a flood of spilled milk.
And yet we can still buy cigarettes and liquor, soda, etc.
It seems to be ok to buy things that will eventually kill you but not so good to buy things that will keep you alive.
Things that will kill you:
1) Treat with drugs (Big Pharma)
2) Reduce social security payouts
A win-win for the government!
Notice how the intelligent thinking conservatives have it right (deowll, Pasteurized is safer but people should have a right to decide.)
While the nutball liberals can’t? (BigBoyBC Dvorak and Curry only do half-assed research)
Liberals are not very smart. How much effort does it take to google “police raiding raw milk”??
I wish at one of these press conferences when the Brown Shirt Goons announce these absurd actions that someone would ask the goon the following question.
Seeing as the technology for milk pasteurization is less than five hundred years old and the gene for the digestion of lactose is at least seven thousand years old, please explain the why the consumption of raw milk is dangerous?
Love how the country is broke, except for when it comes to expanding the police state.
They didn’t pay the kosher food “tax” protection money!
On the voice of reason some years ago they called one of these kosher places and got the cost of getting kosher it was very expensive. I wish I had the link to that show. It was absolute proof of the kosher conspiracy!
Selling raw milk to the public is illegal here in NZ, the loophole is some farmers will sell a share in a cow making you an owner technically, and it’s legal to get raw milk from your own cow. These farms are almost always organic and often mostly A2 milk, and it’s less expensive than store bought.
Back in the 1970s, when I was stationed in Idaho. There was a raw milk store in Boise. I heard that such things existed, but they had to keep the cows extremely well cleaned. So no excretions could possibly contaminate the product. Or bacteria wouldn’t flourish, where the cows were stalled and milked. I couldn’t see any real benefit in raw milk products myself. But I’m sure there are some health fanatics who will buy into anything labeled “organic” and “natural”. Still, with all the serious crime and criminals, far from being stopped. Why are government agents cracking down on raw foods suppliers? Cause they don’t shoot back, I suppose. Or threaten to sue the state for every dime. Or have a friend in state politics. Is food a controlled substance now? Aren’t Drugs, Tobacco, and Firearms enough to police? I guess it was that the regular dairy suppliers were losing customers. So the LA agents were helping to maintain the status quot.
Well I drank nothing but raw milk for at least 20 years. My patients drank it for over 40 years (we had a family dairy farm). No issues that I am aware of.
I work with a guy that was also raised on a dairy farm and still has 1 or 2 cows that he milks by hand so he has drank raw milk for over 50 years.
However there are increased risks so the Gov has imposed restrictions for safety reasons. But it sure seems like there should be away to regulate the sale of raw milk in away that assures it is safe.
#17 atmusky…certainly there is a way, but the dairy lobby will make sure it never happens.
Bumper sticker: “I Will Give Up My Glass Of Raw Milk When They Peel My Cold Dead Fingers From Around It.”
Fight the power: http://realmilk.com
It won’t be long until the sale of real/raw meat is banned in favor of irradiated meat food product.
GOVERNMENT DATA PROVES RAW MILK SAFE
http://westonaprice.org/press/press/government-data-proves-raw-milk-safe
“…Using government figures for foodborne illness for the entire population, Dr. Beals has shown that you are about thirty-five thousand times more likely to get sick from other foods than you are from raw milk…”