Police raid organic grocery store with guns drawn

Well this is just bonkers... 

Multi-agency armed raid hits Rawesome Foods and Healthy Family Farms for selling raw milk and cheese. 

According to a blog posted on the LA Times website: 

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. 

But why are cops busting into a wholesome food store wielding firearms? George Hemminger weighs in:

In the video below, he claims that the battle over organic foods is heating up because large agricultural businesses and corporations feel threatened by local co-ops and have hijacked the FDA and other government regulatory agencies. The issue is that shared farming co-ops don't necessarily fit into the corporate model, and are taking away market share value from Big Ag companies.