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Daily News @ http://RevolutionNews.US ~ VENICE, CA — Raw Food SWAT Police Confiscate Yogurt at Gunpoint...

It was an average weekday morning last month at Rawesome Foods in Venice, California when federal, state, and local authorities busted in, guns drawn, looking for an illicit stash of raw milk. Law enforcement at its finest.

The Los Angeles Times has the details of the raid, and Rawesome Foods's surveillance video, which shows police entering the premises as if they're busting into a warehouse full of cocaine. The authorities were there to confiscate jugs of raw goat and cow milk, which Rawesome sells to local connoisseurs. One official told the LAT, "This is not about restricting the public's rights. This is about making sure people are safe." Still reeling from the experience, Rawesome volunteer Sea J. Jones, who "still can't believe they took our yogurt," throws the neighborhood potheads under the bus: "There's a medical marijuana shop a couple miles away, and they're raiding us because we're selling raw dairy products?" Nice.

The raid was executed on June 30 by the Los Angeles County district attorney's office, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, the California Department of Food and Agriculture, the FDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Afterward, they posted a sign on the front door that said Rawesome had been "operating a food facility without a valid public health permit." The interagency raid hauled in an impressive amount of contraband, too: Investigators confiscated the club's computer and 17 coolers packed with, among other things, 24 bottles of organic honey, 10 gallons of raw whole milk and two bottles of raw cane syrup.

It's a good thing they got that stuff off the streets! The co-founder of Rawesome Foods, Aajonus Vonderplanitz, told the paper, "This is about control and profit, not our health. How can we not have the freedom to choose what we eat?" And although the investigation is ongoing, members of the co-op continue to shop there. A true food revolution.

http://gawker.com/5595804/daring-raid-on-la-foodiots-i-still-cant-believe-the...

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  • END THE FED!

  • Yeah, they better come with guns drawn.... But after the fact, I think I would have a different reaction. Life is too short, and the future is too valuable to allow people without values to keep thier cushy pen pushing, and gun toting jobs.

    Someday a riot will lead to a revolution.

    Many people will have to die, but only then will words and exposure change anything in this country.

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  • apparently they had nothing else to do that day.

  • @hrsqsiest Did u even bother to think that maybe somebody recorded it off of the real video using a camera? Did u notice that the date is no longer visible after he zooms in? Look at the top Icon where it says play as the camera is moving. Try to look for these things next time before you say something without truly knowing.

  • The video is BS. It says it's "actual security camera footage". A security camera is stationary unless there is someone controlling it and this one was shaking and following one guy around. They admited the shop was closed therefor no camera operator. The raid happened but not as they show.

  • @stavlaft Senate bill S510...

  • cop killer <3

  • how dare you ur hippy co op here? lol to cali really?look at any street corners a guy sellen oranges . much?excessive use of force? or fear and intimidation tactics>? shock and aw the citizens see if well revolt were Americans?

  • Wow ...that's scary ! You are condemned to eat shit food for the rest of your life ...

    No, seriously, you need to wake up guys, lobbies (food, guns) in the US have too much power just as your cops.

  • @zdamienz amen

  • What was the LAW the gov is going to pass against organic farming==???? i remember seing this on TV but i cant remember the law and i wanted to show it to my family and friends

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