Raw Food Raid in Los Angeles
July 26th, 2010Via: Los Angeles Times:
With no warning one weekday morning, investigators entered an organic grocery with a search warrant and ordered the hemp-clad workers to put down their buckets of mashed coconut cream and to step away from the nuts.
Then, guns drawn, four officers fanned out across Rawesome Foods in Venice. Skirting past the arugula and peering under crates of zucchini, they found the raid’s target inside a walk-in refrigerator: unmarked jugs of raw milk.
“I still can’t believe they took our yogurt,” said Rawesome volunteer Sea J. Jones, a few days after the raid. “There’s a medical marijuana shop a couple miles away, and they’re raiding us because we’re selling raw dairy products?”
Cartons of raw goat and cow milk and blocks of unpasteurized goat cheese were among the groceries seized in the June 30 raid by federal, state and local authorities — the latest salvo in the heated food fight over what people can put in their mouths.
Research Credit: ltcolonelnemo
Baffles the mind. How much are these cops being paid by the hour? Uh, wouldn’t their time be better served on SPEEDING tickets? Wow.
I’ve decided that here in PA the “peoples” speed limit is 70-85 in 55-65 mile per hour zones. Time of day is key. I figure every states budget crisis would be solved if traffic police enforced the laws and gave tickets (good luck collecting on them) in the morning rush hours.