Amish farms to hippie co-ops fight FDA's inquiry over raw milk
One sun-drenched August morning, armed officers wearing sunglasses and bullet-proof vests descended on a market in Venice, California, searching for illegally sold goods. It marked the end of a year-long investigation where undercover agents posed as customers.Their target: raw, unpasteurized milk.
U.S. regulators say its a dangerous and unnecessary public threat, pointing to 143 cases of contamination linked to still births, miscarriages and kidney failure since 1987, the latest involving five California children. Grassroots, back-to-nature consumers say the product strengthens the immune system by keeping intact good bacteria thats killed in pasteurized milk. The choice should be theirs, the activists say.
These guns are being drawn on basically aging hippies, all because of illegal milk, said Ajna Sharma-Wilson, a Los Angeles lawyer for the Venice market owner, in an interview. This is a waste of taxpayer money.
The Aug. 3 crackdown on the
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