SWAT Team Conducts Food Raid in Rural Ohio
December 6th, 2008Via: Crossroad:
On Monday, December 1, a SWAT team with semi-automatic rifles entered the private home of the Stowers family in LaGrange, Ohio, herded the family onto the couches in the living room, and kept guns trained on parents, children, infants and toddlers, from approximately 11 AM to 8 PM. The team was aggressive and belligerent. The children were quite traumatized. At some point, the “bad cop” SWAT team was relieved by another team, a “good cop” team that tried to befriend the family. The Stowers family has run a very large, well-known food cooperative called Manna Storehouse on the western side of the greater Cleveland area for many years.
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Presumably Manna Storehouse might eventually be charged with running a retail establishment without a license. Why then the Gestapo-type interrogation for a 3rd degree misdemeanor charge? This incident has raised the ominous specter of a restrictive new era in State regulation and enforcement over the nation’s private food supply.
There is definitely a serious crack-down underway against the natural foods movements. About three weeks ago a food club in Illinois was hit by the Food Feds (un-approved meat being the contraband). I know about it because a good friend of mine who runs bootleg raw milk had some receipts discovered there, and they showed up at his door in short order asking to look around. They had no warrant so the answer was no.
Ultimately, as probably most of your readers know Kevin, this is all about corporate control of the food supply…but the deeper issue is that more and more people are beginning to see that our government is not serving the public interest and is in fact working against their life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. A revolt is growing, of people who know the corporate-government system is destructive and downright crooked, and that organizations like the USDA don’t serve the public interest but actually promote unhealthy and untruthful agendas in the name of personal profit.
And the movement is growing so quickly, too – it’s suddenly becoming cutting-edge uber-hip to get your food directly from farmers, to drink unpasteurized milk, to eat real, unadulterated food again. We’ll have Hollywood stars bragging about it very soon…
I suspect, and it’s something you’ve noted before, Kevin, that the thing that really disturbs US authorities is that this issue is NOT a divisive one. Our US authorities love divisive issues. But the natural foods movement is just the opposite: it’s quickly bringing very disparate groups of people together, uniting them in agreement based on fundamental beliefs. That’s what scares the “authorities”, because that type of thing grows quickly, and breeds confidence in people to assert control over their own beliefs and actions.
One more thing, if I might. I just saw a few days ago an open letter that Sally Fallon/WAPF penned to Obama asking him to urge a prison in his home state of Illinois to quit feeding prisoners the high-soy fake-meat diet they currently force on them. Evidently hundreds of prisoners are getting painful cramps and a host of other problems (some pass-out immediately after every meal), and a dozen or more have written to WAPF seeking help.
Now obviously some food manufacturer wants that cheap-prison-food contract really bad. But the bigger picture is that WAPF is clearly hoping to establish a formal, public admission that a diet high in soy is not really “healthy”, as the processed-foods industry and health-industry have spent so much effort to paint it….that in fact a high-soy diet is un-natural and very detrimental. So the soy industry really, really hates WAPF right now. (And as a side note, Kaayla Daniel, the author of break-thru book “The Whole Soy Story”, wrote an article for a popular health magazine about a year ago, and in her by-line they purposely, and without her consent, edited that book out – despite the fact that it was her newest release! They clearly wern’t about to piss-off some of their biggest advertisers).
Probably nothing will come of their request, but still, WAPF has been successful many times lately in fighting back the corporate regulatory crack-down on natural foods, and they’ve done it on many fronts and in many states. So we’ll see….
Natural food is THE gateway issue for getting people to see the wider horror show.
I saw that soy letter too, I extracted the full text and posted it:
https://cryptogon.com/?p=5329
Over the last few weeks, as we were waiting for our cow to calf, we really started getting desperate for raw milk. We found a company here that was unofficially letting raw milk go for sale out the “back door” so to speak. When I went there to pick up our stuff, the place was packed with people buying up the contraband product! HAHA.
Don’t ask me the name of the farm, because I won’t tell. In NZ, the trick to finding raw milk is just asking around your local area, or keeping your own cows and staggering their calving. Word is definitely spreading. For a company the size of the one that we got our raw milk from to just be ignoring the law must indicate that the dam is about to break.