On a recent morning in Venice, Calif., workers at Rawesome Foods were opening up shop for the day when there was a knock on the door.
“I went back there to see who it was, and they said, ‘Police, we have a search warrant,’ ” Rawesome volunteer Jim Phillips says.
Guns drawn, the cops entered the natural food store. They found the contraband in the dairy case. It was raw milk.
“In particular, some raw goat’s milk we get from a farm,” fellow volunteer Lela Buttery adds.
The police said the co-op needed a permit to sell raw milk, and confiscated all the raw food Rawesome wasn’t cleared to sell — volunteers say about $10,000 worth of stuff. The shop reopened later that day, but it was a big hit that didn’t make a lot of sense to co-op members.
“There’s a marijuana dispensary down the street from my house,” Buttery tells NPR’s Guy Raz. “I can buy as much alcohol as I want, but I can’t drink this enzymatic, nutrient-rich superfood?” Read more…
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