Armed Police Raid Private Organic Co-Op Rawesome Foods, Security Camera Footage

By P.J. Huffstutter, Los Angeles Times
With no warning one weekday morning, investigators entered an organic grocery with a search warrant and ordered the hemp-clad workers to put down their buckets of mashed coconut cream and to step away from the nuts.

Then, 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.

"This is about control and profit, not our health," said Aajonus Vonderplanitz, co-founder of Rawesome Foods. "How can we not have the freedom to choose what we eat?"

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Comment by truth on August 3, 2011 at 11:08pm

Aaron Dykes
Infowars.com
August 3, 2011

Footage has emerged from the raid today on Rawesome Foods in California which includes crowds of citizens spontaneously gathered to question the seizure of cash money, raw milk and even produce like mangos. Black-is-white in a new world where retailers of healthy raw milk and other foods have been arrested and held on bond at $120,000 or higher, front-yard gardeners are threatened with 90+ days in jail, but GMO kingpins can get instant safety approval and force their products on the market via close government ties. Further protest of these raids is planned for tomorrow.

As Natural News earlier reported, multiple organic stores were raided as three were arrested and charged with ‘conspiracy’. The busts, conducted as if a terrorist or druglord were inside, included multiple federal agencies, including the FDA and CDC, as well as various local agencies including LAPD, health department officials, the L.A. County Dept. of Agriculture and others.

Comment by Nikki on August 3, 2011 at 10:12pm: They did it again today

http://www.infowars.com/citizens-confront-police-over-organic-food-...

Comment by jack l eich on August 3, 2011 at 5:57pm: lets arrest those pesky health food dealers and shut em down!! AAARRRGGHHHH,that a police expression also pirates!

Comment by jack l eich on August 3, 2011 at 5:54pm: welcome to the new world. militaristic anarchists armed to the teeth with no search warrant needed.

Comment by truth on August 3, 2011 at 5:16pm: The Colbert Report
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Comment by Occupy Fullerton on August 3, 2011 at 4:03pm: Please call the district attorney's office 213-974-3512 and give your complaints. CA Dept of Agriculture is "not dealing" with the Rawesome milk raid.

Comment by claudette langley on August 3, 2011 at 3:36pm: Please give these people something real to do with their time. I love the officer with the gun drawn sneaking up on the cooler in case there is a terrorist inside, I guess.