Authorities Force Members-Only Grocer To Stop Selling
A grocery business in Minneapolis has been shut down by authorities over health concerns related to their raw milk sales. The grocery venue, Uptown Locavore, is a $50-per-year, members-only grocery retailer and they sell a variety of items that mostly come from small organic farms.
On their website they highlight that they seek to provide items that are organic and sourced locally whenever possible, grass-fed, non-GMO, free-range meat, poultry, fish and more.
According to health inspectors, they say that the business isn't allowed to sell the raw dairy products that they've been selling. They want to make the decision of the consumer for them, essentially taking away their freedom to make the choice to purchase raw milk products from this members-only establishment if they want to.
If someone is interested in purchasing raw dairy products in Minnesota, state authorities want them to purchase those products directly from the farmer. And since the owner of the shop, Uptown Locavore, allegedly hasn't been purchasing the products in this manner, they've taken to shutting down the business.
The store has allegedly responded to the incident, insisting that they haven't done anything wrong and they don't intend to engage in any wrongdoing. They assert that it's a private buying club--where nothing is for sale to the open public--and that those who sign-up for the membership are fully aware of what they are buying.
Health inspectors still maintain that the private buyer's club business model is in violation of the rules the law.
If the owner doesn't cooperate in handing over the dairy products and fish, meat etc, then authorities say that they'll get a warrant and come confiscate it that way. They've already allegedly locked down some of his products in the store so that they cannot be sold.
On the contract...
This includes any harm that might come to them from consuming raw dairy products or other food that they purchased from the club.
The owner of the private buying club has said that he has never had any complaint related to his food products that are being sold there. Though, despite the seemingly peaceful nature of the operation, the investigation is allegedly still ongoing over this matter, with the food items being currently held under a health embargo.
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Sources:
http://www.citypages.com/restaurants/minneapolis-cracks-down-on-members-only-uptown-grocer-run-out-of-this-house-on-hennepin/482412011
http://www.startribune.com/inspectors-shut-down-uptown-dealer-of-raw-milk/482408841/
https://www.uptownlocavore.com
https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/016049_4d0d5f354b9a46f8849be266467aaf45.pdf
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/05/11/minneapolis-shuts-down-indoor-food-market
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Dammit!
While I can see the need to protect the public in the event this service is not safe, this really is a solution in search of a problem.
Cutting out middlemen, putting the profit in the hands of the farmers, and providing local and organic produce directly to the people who want it is the way things used to be done.
Would be so good to return to that without the govern-cement screwing it all up.
BOOOOO!
The gov. and their "regulators" don't like that kind of talk. What will all those poor gov. "servants" do then? You want these decent folks standing @ the unemployment line?
;-)
Find real jobs and contribute! Pour money into enabling small business.
Maybe get into food growing or start their own small business so they can see what it is like.
Now I feel like an armchair quarterback.
"Health authorities in the region are concerned about the raw dairy products that are being sold there, and have some concerns for their beef products that might not have been inspected to their standards."
Anarchist translation: People in costumes are worried that other humans will eat raw food with viable healthy microbes, enzymes, minerals, and other beneficial organic compounds not destroyed by pasteurization thereby causing irreparable harm and financial damage to the medical mafia because fewer humans will need or seek costly and mostly ineffective treatments and outrageously overpriced pharmacological products that oftentimes do more harm than good.
Here here! Highly Upvoted!
In the Splatts house, that is the ONLY milk we drink. Raw. I can’t stand the taste of “traditional” milk, neither can my kids.
The consumers are fully aware of these “potential” risks and signed on the dotted line. Have there been a bunch of reports of people getting sick? Then what the heck is is the problem? This is nuts and I hope this store stands their ground and their customers stand behind them and fight.
Problem is customers aren't getting enough steroids vaccines and gmos in there bodies! Glad they stopped this atrocious act of raw organic milk cuz that makes sense.
But on a serious note, ive never had raw organic milk :/. Wonder where i could get around here?.
When I lived in Cali I got it from Lassen’s in Fresno. Check any local family owned markets, you might get lucky. Now a local market here called Andy’s carries it. The dairy they get it from is about 1.5 hrs from here. Get ready to pay a pretty penny for it $$.
Maybe ill check out cat milk lol. Raw milk is here just a matter of finding. I love milk!
Badger milk, get the badger milk. 😂😂
Lol
If there is a signed contract and its members know what they consume, then why try to regulate that?
good ques😂👍
Excellent article friend @doitvoluntarily the authorities have the obligation to protect users, and hopefully innocent people have not been affected
I really hope it hasn't affected some innocent people who are unaware of the development, thanks for sharing the update
That has to be stopped, it can not continue like this, it is unacceptable not to take the consumer into account, in which case the owner of the store has to deliver all the products as many dairy products as meat and fish
Hola amigo @doitvoluntarily saludos desde venezuela un abrazo lo mas rico un vaso con leche :)
Raw milk is produced from cows that eat grass, or are raised organically. Milk is considered raw because it skips commercial chains of pasteurization.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is adamant advising people not to consume raw milk. In its report, the CDC found there were a total of 81 disease-causing bacterial outbreaks found in unpasteurized milk.
The CDC also lies and is well protected.
In a way,they are depriving the consumers the right to choose and that is totally unacceptable