Rawesome Foods Owner Released on Bail After Raid

By Elina Shatkin Tue., Aug. 9 2011 at 11:05 AM

Raw milk at an organic co-op.

[Update, 08.09.11: NaturalNews reports that as a condition of their release, the Raw Milk Three are subject to a gag order that prevents them from speaking about the case.]

After being frog-marched out of his raw milk speakeasy in a Wednesday morning raid then spending the night in jail, Rawesome Foods owner James Stewart was released yesterday on $30,000 bail under the condition that he cannot sell unpasteurized dairy without a license. (His bail was originally set at $125,000.)

Stewart and two others, Healthy Family Farms owner Sharon Palmer and Weston A. Price Foundation liaison Victoria Bloch were also arrested and each held on $60,000 bail. Bloch has been released and her bail was dropped, but Palmer's arraignment has not yet been scheduled, we're told.

Palmer may be considered a flight risk given that in 2000 she and her partner Edward Rostami were arrested near the U.S.-Mexico border as they fled to avoid prosecution for a real estate swindle.

While it's legal to manufacture and sell unpasteurized dairy products in California, licenses and permits are required. The 13-count indictment against Stewart, Palmer and Bloch alleges they sold raw milk and other raw dairy products without the proper permits and health safeguards.

The raid and subsequent arrests sparked outrage among organic food and raw milk advocates, who protested the actions today outside the courtroom where the Raw Milk Three were arraigned.

We'll keep adding details as we get them.

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Petra StJohn

Please people, wake up and read! We have been cheated and still defend these fraudulent guys???

http://unhealthyfamilyfarm.com...

TollerKoch

CONCLUSIONS:Even though HHF claimed to be compliant with organic standards by October 6th when Ms. Hanson obtained the chicken and eggs from Rawesome, the results are not organic or healthy. Those test results applied to the water sample reference limits for drinkingwater contaminants, the chicken tested even worse than Oortman/McMahon test which only had a cautionary arsenic level of 0.005 μg per gram versus your 0.023 μg per gram. The above tests prove that the feed Sharon Palmer was feeding her chickens up to October 6th, if they were HFF chickens, is not organic or healthy but is commercial.Considering the outright fraud committed by Sharon Palmer and James Stewart at HFF for about the last 2 years, no tests initiated by them should be considered valid.

Chip Hitler

That's BULL, man. Selling raw milk without a license is illegal?! What's next? Are the Fascists going to require training, permits, licenses, etc. to sell ground turkey? hand-guns? stocks and bonds?? See where this is taking our country??? If I want to buy raw milk or a Glock 19 for my brother's little daughter, as a free man I should be able to do that from a guy I know without worrying about no license!

TollerKoch

maybe it had to do with this?http://www.unhealthyfamilyfarm...