NO ORGANIC FOOD FOR YOU! The FDA along with LAPD raids a local organic market

Whether its sold or given for free, whether one invents a term for home homogenization, the moral of this story is clear - the food industry and state are waging a war on food.

Isn't selling raw milk and raw milk derived products illegal? Then you shouldn't be surprised when you get raided. The whole cow shares and donation based milk supply are simply trying to skirt the laws. If you don't like the laws then work to change them, not break them, or as the lady in the video said, buy your own cow. Unfortunately the science is pretty clear that the public safety benefits of pasteurization greatly outweigh any perceived benefit of drinking raw milk.

btw, most of the milk sold in stores that is "pasteurized" come from cows fed antibiotics and hormones & milked by machines that bruise their teets to the point of bleeding. that's right, all that goes into "SAFE p[asteruized" milk.

outrageous... but it's ok for big agra biz to grow & sell GMO produce that wrecks havoc in our digestive systems... oh, that's right, Monsanto owns Congress!

In the good old days people had to become sick or die from food before the authorities closed them down.
Ever since Shock & Awe (2003 in Iraq) preemptive policing now defines our homeland security.

I am struggling to see how the govenment has any business in what we eat or where we get it.

stupidamericanz did no read fine print under land of free hahaha

Destruction of property is not listed on the official documents. Also, the seizure of produce was only permitted after testing of samples were done. These will hopefully be legal setbacks to the legality of the excessive action that was taken. However, the search warrant is clearly designed to utterly destroy this organic company beyond repair and to eliminate the local network that has sprung around it. The search warrant even allowed the confiscation of prescription bottles. They took over $4k in cash.

I thought Obama said he would stop this. Oh, but wait. He said he would get an increase in taxes from the wealthy tool.

The folks at big pharm want us to be sick because they have a pill that will do something. Not cure but do something thats the whole deal. they don't want to cure what they can treat. They would lose money.

"If we are to be compelled to drink pasteurized milk, we should at least understand what pasteurization means. It set out to accomplish two things: Destruction of certain disease-carrying germs and the prevention of souring milk. These results are obtained by keeping the milk at a temperature of 145 degrees to 150 degrees F. for half an hour, at least, and then reducing the temperature to not more than 55 degrees F.

It is undoubtedly beneficial to destroy dangerous germs, but pasteurization does more than this-it kills off harmless and useful germs alike, and by subjecting the milk to high temperatures, destroys some nutritious constituents.

With regards to the prevention of souring; sour raw milk is very widely used. It is given to invalids, being easily digested, laxative in its properties, and not unpleasant to take. But, after pasteurization, the lactic acid bacilli are killed. The milk, in consequence, cannot become sour and quickly decomposes, while undesirable germs multiply very quickly."
June 1938 - Armchair Science (a British Medical Journal)

More outbreaks of e.coli and food poisoning come from the establishment mass dairies and factory farms, Unless the whole story is put out here without bias it is just the FEDs at their old game: Intimidate, incriminate, incarcerate against their bribers competitors.

Let's not let hysteria get in the way of the facts. Raw milk is NOT illegal to sell in California, but you must be licensed to do so. You must allow inspections of your cattle, the prep areas, your equipment, your procedures. Rawesome had been on notice since June, 2010 but continued to operate without the above conditions. Why, you ask, should the Feds be involved in the sales between a local market and its willing customers? Should we have the right to buy and eat/drink products that may be dangerous because of the way they were stored/prepared? In my opinion, no. Would you feel comfortable if the FAA decided that aircraft safety inspections were no longer necessary? That a pilot didn't have to have a license if he didn't want to get one? Okay, you may feel that's not a fair analogy because the consumers of raw milk feel they're making a healthier choice. But is it fair to me that my insurance premiums go up because a group of people partake in a health risk? I guess if Rawesome also had a mandatory cooperative health plan for all its customers, I'd have no problem at all.

Producers selling their products to willing consumers without the interference of Government sounds like the stuff this country was founded on. The East India Company 300 years ago squashed or absorbed competition, and received special tax treatment and subsidies that unfairly (the colonists thought) put the one-family business operation at a significant disadvantage.

This just appears to be the modern-day version of that.

The police/feds should be charged with excessive force, as what else can you call a raid of this sort?

Also, although it is stupid, I feel like these stores should change their practice in how they "sell" their milk. Correct me if I'm wrong, but they can always give the milk away for free, right? Just sell a pack of gum for $8, and include a promotion for "free" raw milk for every purchase of that particular pack of gum. Or, maybe they could sell it as "prehemogenized" for home homogenization or something.

Perhaps Big Ag has closed all possible loopholes, but I find that hard to beleive. Quite silly of the government to care about this crap considering the fact that you can buy hamburger meat and eat it raw all day long without anyone bothering you or the store that sells it.

This sounds insane.

Is there *any* medical/health reason they should do this?

They didn't get to lace it with fluoride and you might wake up if you don't have your fluoride to calcify your pineal gland,

The FDA can't bust a dairy for having unlawful chemicals into milk, but they raid health food stores. Government is not concerned about the chemicals which industry and big AG puts in our foods, but on behalf of Monsanto and Big Dairy they're concerned about milk that doesn't come through the Big Chain system. How much money are FDA execs accepting to prosecute this war on the small dairyman?

Is there like a different current site for the UK? The post here says it has 118 views, but according to my blog stats, there are over 200 visitors coming from this current link from the UK... Strange.

Eff these cops. They should be protecting and serving us, not Monsanto.