Armed Raid on Raw Food Producers – the FDA Hasn’t Changed….
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. While agents said they would leave behind a warrant, no one has yet had any opportunity to even see if such a warrant exists or if it is a complete warrant.
Law enforcement then proceeded to destroy the inventory of the story by pouring the milk down the drain and / or confiscating raw cheese and fresh produce for destruction.
… We believe this was an ILLEGAL raid being conducted mob-style by government thugs who respect no law and no rights. This is an all-out war by the government against people who try to promote healthy raw and living foods.
James is now being held at the Pacific division police department at Centinela and Culver in Los Angeles. He is being held at $123,000 bail with no possibility of using bail bonds. Law enforcement has demanded that if he comes up with the money to cover bail, he must disclose to them all the sources of that money. (This is an illegal demand!)
Massive public protests are needed to teach these criminal law enforcement agencies that they cannot illegally arrest and persecute individuals merely for buying and selling raw milk and cheese…. — NaturalNews.com
If you want to help James Stewart with his legal costs, please go here.
Here’s a video of James Stewart at his farm:
It’s not the first time Rawsome Foods has been raided by armed police. This clip is from November last year. Watching the police at work, you could be forgiven for thinking they’d just hunted down a serial killer:
I think the history of the FDA can tell us a lot here. The FDA began its life more than a century ago, with the 1906 Food and Drug Act, otherwise known as the ‘Wiley Act’, after Harvey Washington Wiley, the main advocate of the law. Mr. Wiley pushed for legal protection of the public from a food supply increasingly, and stealthily, being adulterated by companies putting additives, fillers, drugs and chemicals into their products. At the time, this law was administered by a department of the USDA — ‘The Bureau of Chemistry’ — later to become (in 1927) ‘The Food, Drug and Insecticide Administration’, and later shortened to just ‘The Food and Drug Administration’; the FDA.
The originator of the 1906 Food and Drug Act apparently watched and battled for years as industry influences won over and adulterated the law and its original purposes. In 1929, a year before he died, he published the following title: The History of a Crime Against the Food Law — The Amazing Story of the National Food and Drugs Law Intended to Protect the Health of the People Perverted to Protect Adulteration of Foods and Drugs.
A snippet from this publication:
If the Bureau of Chemistry had been permitted to enforce the law as it was written and as it tried to do, what would have been the condition, now? No food product in our country would have any trace of benzoic acid, sulphurous acid or sulphites, or any alum or saccharin, save for medicinal purposes. No soft drink would contain any caffeine, or theobromine. No bleached flour would enter interstate commerce. Our foods and drugs would be wholly without any form of adulteration and misbranding. The health of our people would be vastly improved and their life greatly extended. The manufacturers of our food supply, and especially the millers, would devote their energies to improving the public health and promoting happiness in every home by the production of whole ground, unbolted cereal flours and meals.
The resistance of our people to infectious diseases would be greatly increased by a vastly improved and more wholesome diet. Our example would be followed by the civilized world and thus bring to the whole universe the benefits which our own people had received. — The History of a Crime Against the Food Law — The Amazing Story of the National Food and Drugs Law Intended to Protect the Health of the People Perverted to Protect Adulteration of Foods and Drugs, by Harvey W. Wiley, MD.
Decisions by those with an unbiased interest in the welfare of society were continually vetoed by the industry-influenced decision-makers above them. A century later, and nothing has changed, only the activities of industry have become all the more treacherous (we shared examples of this just yesterday) and dangerous, and now Big Agri has not only federal laws working for their benefit, but the soldiers of an increasingly fascist government to enforce them as well.
The FDA was supposed to ensure our foods were as natural and healthy as possible. Oh how this contrasts with what we’re seeing above. According to the FDA, today a ‘wholesome diet’ is represented by a glass of pasteurised, irradiated, recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH)-, antibiotic- and pus-filled glass of milk — one extracted by machine from a thousand cows who are all fed a diet so unnatural they have to be drugged to stomach it.
This is arguably the most serious of the multiple cycles of stupidity that we find ourselves in, in this thing we call ‘modern society’. I call it a cycle because the feigned intent is to protect us from bacteria and disease, yet the very actions of the FDA and Big Agri are ensuring we’ll lose the battle against pathogens. Indeed, they’re starting the war in the first place. They are creating diseases in our plants and animals. It is Big Agri that is destroying the healthy microbial flora in our soils and in our gut. Take these away, and we’re opening the door for all kinds of pathogens to spring up and kill us. We’re pouring poisons all over our soils and our food, we’re rolling out enormous monocultures in every area. Even normally benign things like sprouts are becoming deadly because we’re creating them at scale and in factory-floor, sterile environments.
If we are to follow this way of thinking to its logical conclusion, we’d simply drink bleach.
The FDA should be confiscating McFecal burgers instead, and the U.S. government should be incentivising a return to micro-organism rich, small scale, biodiverse farms (and yards) where the creatures within them enjoy sunshine, chemical-free water and soils, a natural diet and mutually beneficial interactions with each other.
Each individual officer involved should be held to account for their actions. “Just following orders” is not an excuse. Get their names and publish them.
America, the land of the free, huh! What a joke.
James’ bail was reduced from $123,000 to $30,000: bail condition: he cannot sell unpasteurized dairy without a license. Is that a reason to dump all that wonderful milk down the drain?
Victoria Bloch was released. Still to be arraigned is farmer Sharon Palmer.
Ironically, 73 people ill and 1 person dead from corporate ground turkey, yet no one raided them.
No one dead from raw milk in the USA for the last 35 years according for the Center for Disease Control.
This is just apauling. Terrible. I hope the people responsible for these raids are, sometime in the near future, in need of food from a ‘non mainstream’ supplier and they think back to the pain and suffering they have caused. Shame Shame Shame!
well guys it just proves we are having some effect, we just need to keep up all the great work.
In a newspaper called the rural, which is for farmers, chemical companies are stating that their products are safe because the organic movement is gaining traction and they are sacred of losing their control
Business as usual sadly
Nobody should have ever been granted the authority to control what another person may eat or drink. So thanks to government, we now have guns and jails involved in what should be a simple scientific and personal choice debate about which milk to drink.
Keep your eyes open, because this is government showing its true nature.
It’s not just government JBob. It’s industry controlling government to their own ends.
We do not have a problem with USDA organic certification and most organic production comes fro large corporate scale producers who also produce conventional products. What is frightening is these small scale local growers that pepper the entire countryside,especially thick on the East and West coasts.At some of these farms they actually milk their animals by hand this is a dangerous practice and sooner or later someone will get sick.For this reason it is a practice that will not spread. NAIS or National Animal Identity System has the potential to prevent the ownership of just a few farm animals the costs involved will discourage profitability of small farms.
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@gerald Anderson
Someone has to say it, so it might as well be me. I would like to know who’s payroll you are on and the real reasons why you object to the ‘small scale local growers’ peppering the entire countryside.
Perhaps you don’t realize that, sooner rather than later, there is coming a time when these local farmers will be the only ones with the capability to produce the food products necessary for life and there will be many more of them.
As for the ‘dangerous practice’ of milking by hand, do you not realize that this was standard practice for millennia prior to the industrial revolution and still is in many parts of the world. With the coming energy decline, it will soon become so again and your ‘corporate scale producers’ will be a thing of the past along with all other Big Agriculture.
Personally, I am not generally an advocate of using dairy products as a human food source but this James Stewart situation represents a principle that goes way beyond personal preferences and is such a fine example of oppressive government interference in the expression of personal rights of the individual, that all concerned people should be moved to raise their voice in condemnation of the action taken.
Text of H.R. 1830: To authorize the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products that are packaged for direct human consumption.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-1830
Craig, a look at “A People’s History of the United States” by Howard Zimm provides some good perspective on the approach of Government and industry and the oppression of the people.
“Mr. Speaker, many Americans who the government wishes to deny the ability to purchase unpasteurized milk have done their own research and come to the conclusion that unpasteurized milk is healthier than pasteurized milk. These Americans have the right to consume these products without having the federal government second-guess their judgment about what products best promote health. If there are legitimate concerns about the safety of unpasteurized milk, those concerns should be addressed at the state and local level.” – Ron Paul.
https://www.ronpaul.com/2011-05-16/statement-introducing-unpasteurized-milk-bill-hr-1830/
A witness on the scene during the Rawesome Foods raid has publicly stated that an agent of the Specialized Surveillance & Enforcement Bureau of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health stole $9,000 in cash from James Stewart after placing him in handcuffs. The $9,000 in cash was about to be used to acquire food products (honey, watermelons, eggs and others) that are offered to club members of Rawesome Foods.
During the raid on Rawesome Foods, $4,500 in cash was taken from the store and $9,000 confiscated from James Stewart, but only the $4,500 in cash was noted on the warrant. California law requires that all items seized at the raid are noted on the warrant, but the LA County Department of Public Health failed to note the $9,000, meaning there is no longer any paper trail for this cash that was taken from James.
Lela Buttery, a witness at the raid, explained this on the Robert Scott Bell Show (www.NaturalNewsRadio.com) Sunday, August 7, 2011:
“The warrant states that they are to take various samples of dairy products. It also says that they can take files, computers, hard drives, cash, etc., but they have to account for everything. So all of the milk that was dumped out is not accounted for. There’s a part of the warrant that they have to say what they confiscated. There were envelopes in the office that were already set out to pay these vendors… that was about $4500, but when Terrence Powell asked James Stewart how much money is on the premises — that was one of the first questions that was asked — so he said he had nine grand on him, and Terrance asked why would you have so much money on you right now? That money was taken and on the currency sheet it is not on there. So I’m looking at some government agencies that are pocketing some dough right now.”
Information source: http://www.infowars.com
The only reason this happened is because of the ignorance of the words strategically minded criminals use against us. Once you start to read those words you start to get your power back, because then you can challenge the very assumptions that those pretend ‘police officer’s’ are using, you will realize they are committing crimes against humanity. Using threats, force, coercion, duress and a criminal conspiracy to traumatize and impoverish those who are supplying whole natural foods in a world where our most precious genetic stock of seed and plant is being ravaged and under organized attack. Due to the consequences of warfare through food, ultimately those ‘police’ in this video committed the most serious acts of terrorism possible, and that lady was right there should have been a citizen’s arrest for acts of terror committed, and there is no doubt they have committed the most vile acts of treason against the oath they swore and the freedoms they swore to protect.
The biggest secret is that they make you think that reading these acts/statutes are boring, but once you watch videos like bursting bubbles of government deception by robert menard, or its an illusion by john harris, you will see the ‘code’ behind the matrix of legal deception. The key is comprehension of words, then you can go and discover for yourself how we are the greatest authority and are actually the government, and the pretend ‘government’ is the greatest threat to freedom and the law, as it always has been