Raw Milk Raid in Venice: Three Arrested For Alleged Unpermitted Sales of Unpasteurized Dairy

Roger Bird

The real criminals are the FDA thugs and their degenerate, slim-bag cohorts. I say jail time for FDA thugs.

VokMoo

lol, sudden shortage of REAL crime in the area for cops to deal with?

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Scott Gordon Sr.

A SWAT type raid for selling raw milk??? REALLY???

Amendment 5 - Trial and Punishment, Compensation for Takings. ...nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law...

Amendment 9 - Construction of Constitution. The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and People. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

If you do not exercise your rights you will lose them.

Our founding fathers drank whole raw milk. Why can't you choose to do the same? It was their right. When did your right to do likewise vanish?

CommonSense033

Because elections have consequences, and people have been electing statists for a long time.

Americans have become terrified of freedom, because it also means you're responsible for the consequences of your own actions. True freedom means that someone who is lazy and lays around instead of working would starve, because government would not be stealing from those who work to give to them....and the recipient class, now 48% of the population, has discovered they can vote themselves other people's money.

Lazy Bastards

year long investigation over milk?! Talk about a giant waste of taxpayer money.

Natural Verities

With unpasteurized milk being so dangerous and all, why isn't the government arresting breastfeeding mothers? Child abuse is an ugly thing.

Alan Goldstein

That which is not permitted is forbidden.

Roger Bird

We live in a police state. The Congress has let us down. The bureaucrats are running the show. I say jail time for FDA thugs.

Dharmadan108

The real story is all those agencies have been obsessed with charging them for something for YEARS. By the way it was a private membership, not a retail store. THE REAL STORY is the hundreds of thousands of $ spent and years to get them for selling..... raw dairy.. sigh.

anon

They were set up as a private buying club and did not sell to the public. Why shouldn't people be able to join together to contract with farmers to raise for them the kind of foods they wan tho eat?

kris

Forming a private buying club exempts you from regulation? Wow, I didn't know that!

Christi Padilla

I think the problem here is that due to regulation (which I am a fan of, btw) , it is difficult to secure the permits needed to sell the product- and as people are becoming more food-aware, the demand is rising. I feel for these farmers, who likely started because they had a need of their own to know where their food comes from, and to have whole healthy food at their disposal. I'm sad that a state that claims to have such budget woes saw fit to spend so much to bust farmers so harshly. I think that money would have been better spent maybe having an inspector come out and assist the farmers in getting the necessary paperwork in order....

123

now you know

kris

It sounds like this "raid" was excessive, and maybe some rights were violated, but of course I don't know the details and can't say for sure. But would you suggest we don't enforce our laws? You can't sell foods just however you want. We have the FDA for a reason. And you can't operate a business without a license. Go through the proper channels and follow the rules. This isn't some conspiracy to keep "wholesome food" out of people's hands. It's a couple of "entrepreneurs" who think the rules don't apply to them.

Roger Bird

WAY too much government. WAY too much opportunity for abuse, as in this case. A big company sickens thousands, and no one goes to jail.

I say jail time for FDA thugs.

CommonSense033

So for a minor infraction, you're okay with shouting roid-rage adrenaline-junkie sorts coming in with loaded guns pointed at you, at customers, even at children?

Funny how the same people who are okay with that scream about rights violations every time they round up illegals in a peaceful manner...

Lightnapper

Right...then let the migrant workers shit on the spinach, import Chinese food with plastic chemicals in it, eat all the pesticides from Chili, Peru, and the rest of South America, and we can all run around with the squirts and growing tumors. The cream rises to the top for a reason, City Folk? Although, I do agree with the Lic. part. Don't cheat The Man...we got wars to finance. Fix-- just sign a liability waiver and drink the crap...before the ATF exports it to the Mexican drug cartels. Six years!!!

MikeJones

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/...Some great info regarding the FDA.

MikeJones

The FDA is really the problem here. If they were really looking out for our safety that would be one thing, but more often then not they are only out to protect the profits of big corporations.

dmass

Exactly, MikeJones. This is indeed a conspiracy to keep "wholesome food" out of people's hands. And it has been a conspiracy since pasteurization was instituted to take dairy distribution away from independent farmers.