The food police

Originally Posted by Dennis Hultman

Also, raw milk products are legal in this state but the producers of such are still targeted at times.

In all the food raids mentioned here, there has never been a customer complaint or health problem.

It sounds like these raids might be the result of lobbying by the big food chain stores. They run on a very slender profit margin. If people find that food co ops can be better and cheaper, the chains might go belly up.

Unless it is the state itself worried about incurring health care costs if the foods caused illness, but if that were the case, wouldn't they say so?

Originally Posted by Lucille

It sounds like these raids might be the result of lobbying by the big food chain stores. They run on a very slender profit margin. If people find that food co ops can be better and cheaper, the chains might go belly up.

Unless it is the state itself worried about incurring health care costs if the foods caused illness, but if that were the case, wouldn't they say so?

Seems to me that it would be easier to hold accountable a local producer on a small scale if problems arises. It seems at least to me that it would be harder to hold accountable big ag. Small farmers don't want to get their limited customer base sick.

Originally Posted by Dennis Hultman

Seems to me that it would be easier to hold accountable a local producer on a small scale if problems arises. It seems at least to me that it would be harder to hold accountable big ag. Small farmers don't want to get their limited customer base sick.

Dennis

I think logic and clear thinking are not the strong suit of whoever is behind the raids.

It has been my personal experience that whenever I don't understand why someone is doing something, the cause is usually money. Probably, that is the case here then.

Watermelons and honey seized as well...

You are right Lucille.

It has been my personal experience that whenever I don't understand why someone is doing something, the cause is usually money. Probably, that is the case here then.

There's a tremendous amount of disinformation being put out on the internet about the Rawesome Foods raid, even by people who should know better. The most common complaint against Rawesome Foods is: Why don't they get licensed?

The answer is because they are not a public store. Rawesome Foods is a private member club where members actually own a percentage of the cows, goats and farms that produce the raw dairy. The Rawesome Foods facility is merely a distribution point where people pick up the food they already own; food which they could have theoretically picked up at the farm, but it's more convenient to bring it to a central distribution point.

This Rawesome Foods distribution point is a private location, not a public grocery store. The buyer's club itself, from a legal point of view, is private behavior, not public behavior. And yet the state of California is aggressively trying to force Rawesome Foods to be licensed and regulated as a public grocery store, which it is not.

The key element here is that the state wants to collect sales tax on these foods when people pick them up from the Rawesome distribution point. That's why the California Franchise Tax Board was secretly funding the prosecution of Rawesome Foods (http://www.naturalnews.com/033254_R...).

As usual, this is all about the state wanting its share of the pie (or the cheese, in this case). The state is horrified by the idea that people might enter into their own private ownership agreements of "farm shares" and then pick up their food without paying a state sales tax. And yet, in reality, no point-of-purchase "sale" is taking place at all. People are merely picking up the food they already own because they are partial owners of the farms, the cows, the goats and the chickens which naturally produce this food.

Guess I won't tell ya'll why I haven't been on the forum for a while...but I am eating very well!

Hi Troi. Come on, you have to share now.

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Originally Posted by Tiger Lilly

Guess I won't tell ya'll why I haven't been on the forum for a while...but I am eating very well!

You ate your pythons, didn't you!
Come on, fess up! We promise not to tell Uncle Sam.




Noelle