It doesn’t take a political expert to see what’s going on in America and with the global economy. There’s enough stress and negativity floating around, so I’m not going to get too deep into the problems we have. But the problems with the economy worry me and many others, more specifically, experts, and I think that it’s imperative to create a disaster storage. Hazard preparedness has been a tradition practiced by many generations who have experienced depressions and similar events that cripple delivery or availability of necessities. If there’s one message that has been passed down and down since the great depression, it is be prepared. And this isn’t a message asking you to always be worried or stressed, but in-fact, the opposite. Imagine how comfortable it is to know that you have enough food and water and supplies to ensure the safety of yourself, your family, and hopefully, some spare in-case friends or neighbors are in need. There’s no sense in just hoping that everything gets better. I want everything to get better and I believe I do my part in assisting in that process, but I also understand that I have a responsibility to be prepared. I personally believe everyone should have [...]
August, 2011:
Rawesome Foods Raid: Safety or Tyranny?
On August 3rd, 2011, Rawesome Foods in Venice, California, an organic health food store, was raided by the FDA and federal agents for conspiracy to sell raw milk and raw milk sales. Although the raw milk program was a private club, legal in California, the federal agents stated that their reasoning was because of suspicion around malicious raw milk sales. That day and to this day, there have been protests and online lashback for what seems to be a misguided raid at an honest business attempting to make money in the current economy. The FDA and other organizations who authorized and organized this raid have spent citizen tax dollars to raid a legal business establishment and arrest citizens for legal acts. In my own opinion, the public outcry for a solution to this unconstitutional and unlawful raid is completely justified. To add to the economic turmoil that exists in every business, legal raw milk vendors are also to worry about unjustified random raids by Federal agents? The economy is already strained enough to be dealing with these kinds of regulations that seem to be without any actual benefit to the public or the public businesses. And to add to the [...]
