Farmageddon: The Truth About the Food and Dairy Industry

Packers, slaughterhouses, and the feedlots have the money; and that's who controls the beef industry and USDA.  A whole revolving door, from the pharmaceutical and the beef industry to the USDA and get legislation passed on their pet projects.  USDA spends a million dollars plus monitoring small farmers.

Linda Detwiler is the USDA's spy who goes out onto small farms and harasses Americans.  Way to go, Linda!  Here is a book covering the mad sheep fiasco.

Several farmers in this documentary make the excellent point that food grown on a small farm allows a consumer to know where the food they consume comes from.  So if anything does go wrong, the consumer can contact that particular farmer.  Contrast that scenario with food grown at a large agri-farmer in several different states.  It's much more difficult to find the source of bad food through large farms.  I remember that in 2006 when there was the spinach scare in California that it took over a week to locate the source of the tainted crop.

Rawesome Foods in Venice, CA has been "raided" a few times in the past 3 to 5 years.  Because it is a membership co-op, it is open only 2 days a week, Wednesdays, 12-8, and Saturdays, 9-4.  Watch this:

It is interesting to learn who greenlights the warrants and on whose behalf. You have the LA County District Attorney's Office, LA County Police, and the LA County Sheriff's Department. That's quite an expenditure of law enforcement to take down a tiny, contracted farm in Ventura County. Didn't know that LA County has jurisdiction over Ventura County.  LA Building & Safety is threatening to shut down Rawesome Foods because of "illegal" structures.