On June 30th, federal, state and local authorities raided Rawesome on Lincoln. The story hit the LATimes yesterday along with some video.
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.
“I still can’t believe they took our yogurt,” said Rawesome volunteer Sea J. Jones, a few days after the raid. “There’s a medical marijuana shop a couple miles away, and they’re raiding us because we’re selling raw dairy products?”
Continue reading the rest of the article and watch the video by clicking here.
Rawsome Foods
665 Rose Ave
Venice, CA 90291
(310) 452-2244
Thanks to the LAist for the assist! Saw it there first!
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