HatTip Freedom 1781 NaturalNews.com. 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.
Note to NaturalNews readers: 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!)
Law enforcement is now destroying all the Rawesome Foods inventory by pouring the raw milk down the drain and collecting the raw cheese for destruction.
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. We are organizing a public protest day in cooperation with James. Please watch NaturalNews for an announcement of that. Story is developing…
Right now, James needs help raising money with his legal defense needs. Our non-profit Consumer Wellness Center is currently serving as the collection point for donations. You may donate right now at www.ConsumerWellness.org (100% of the donations go directly to James’ legal defense needs, the Consumer Wellness Center keeps
nothing).
See this video of James Stewart talking about his farm:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foKg…
Here’s background on Healthy Family Farms which was also targeted in the raid:
Healthy Family Farms in Santa Paula, California: “Healthy Family Farms is a sustainable, pasture-based farming operation. We raise all our livestock on pasture. We raise all of our animals from birth. We do not feed any of our animals soy, choosing instead to feed animals as they are designed to be fed. This results in healthy, sturdy animals needing no hormones, antibiotics, or other artificial “enhancements.” We harvest our animals humanely by hand before they are delivered to the farmers markets. We never freeze our products. In addition to farmer’s markets sales, we have an active CSA, which offers discounts to our valued members.”
Watch NaturalNews.com for more breaking news on this story. We are fed up with these illegal mob-style raids against the raw foods community! It is time to protest and fight back against tyranny! Learn more
Wow….just wow. This is a really popular place down here in Venice, California. (That’s just a little ways up from LAX.) I’ve been there once to buy sugar-free candy for my Dad who was diabetic. Place was clean….people were great.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/rawesome-foods-venice
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Gee, it’s too bad that they didn’t cite the “Food Safety Act of 2010” as the governing law behind this Federal raid.
Irony Alert!… Irony Alert! The same government who now treats natural foods consumers like terrorists (or, if Joe ‘Plugs’ Biden is to believed, like ‘Tea Party Republicans’) is the same government who sends illegal guns into Mexico and who refuses to stop the flow of criminal illegal aliens into the United States.
Damn, treepers… the Barack Obama Justice Department is more corrupt and morally decadent than the criminals it pursues.
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I meant to add an additional Irony Alert! I’ll wager that 99.9% of the natural food consumers voted for, and continues to vote for, Democrats, the same party who made them outlaws. Now, Moonbeam McSwain and Fawn Skyye are in the same company as John Dillinger, George “Machine Gun” Kelly, the Unibomber and Al Capone.
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Holy crap!
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Video of the end of raid… Feds removing food
http://www.naturalnews.tv/v.asp?v=A5A53BF2F844A0BB9FE1BD9C20E51684
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Alex Jones is also following. More info here….
We have learned that in addition to James Stewart, two other people have been arrested in this raid and are being charged with conspiracy to sell unpasteurized raw milk products. Sharon Palmer of Healthy Family Farms is currently in jail, with bond set at $120,000. Palmer was featured in the documentary Farmageddon. Victoria Bloch, an L.A. county liaison for the Weston A. Price Foundation has also been arrested.
http://www.infowars.com/raw-food-raid-armed-agents-bust-raw-milk-cheese-sellers/
What is up with those “bond amounts”… That’s ridiculously high. A bond is to insure the accused reports for judicial process. I would not think that farmers or food store operators would be a high risk group.
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White House Rural Council has something to do with this, I think.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/does-the-new-white-house-rural-council-uns-agenda-21/
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Did they check with big mama about this. I thought she wanted us to eat our vegetables and ohter “good” food. I didn’t see if the Dep’t. of Ed SWAT guys were in on this as I’m sure they had some subversive reading material in there.
I keep hoping that I’ll wake up one morning and someone will tell me this has all been a big april Fool’s prank. Afraid it probably won’t happen anytime soon tho.
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This is ridiculous. If people want to buy raw & organic food, let them! The government seriously has its priorities screwed up.
See also the Codex Alimentarius. It’s another power grab by the UN over the world’s food supply.
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I hate to repeat Rahm Emmanuel, but we should never let a crisis like this go to waste. If you want to get the freedom loving naturalists to join with us, this is the perfect thing to show them what happens when government runs am-muck. I know I sent this to my self-proclaimed hippie friend in Vermont who is all over this stuff. She has started quite a few good threads on FB and engaged socially liberal friends and have used these instances to really shed the light for them.
Freedom is freedom…when it’s lost, it’s lost.
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Yet the “organic” sh!talicious food from Mexico keeps coming in. And we don’t call it sh!talicious for nothing – Bill Ayers and George Soros’ dreams of killing several million of us off by ANY means creeps closer, controlling food is one facet. Here in TX we call these co-ops “farmer’s markets” – used to be a huge one in Artesia, NM that EVERYONE went to for fine chilies until the family got forced out (whether by taxes, family problems, whatever, I don’t know.) Shrimp are (or were, before the water problem) being raised out here in the desert in Imperial and everyone had their own family vegetable patch. It’s all part of controlling the food supply (or water), alright. Don’t believe anything different. Texans, remember to pray this weekend.
“If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.”
Thomas Paine
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I feel so safe and protected now.
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They will probably end up sharing a cell with that notorious Amish gangster, Josh “Little teats” Jebediah. When will these health “terrorists” learn that the only teat allowed in the USSA is the government teat!!
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