More from Aajonus re Rawzsome issues:-
"Hi, raw-food lovers of Venice-branch Rawesome,
Sadly, denial of the toxic-food-supply charges against James Stewart and Sharon Palmer is how they have responded for at least 2 years. (See James Stewart's response below). They left us, RTCHF and Aajonus no other choice. Stewart and Palmer lack integrity and concern for customer's regarding members' health by having provided eggs with mercury, chickens with arsenic, and non-organic goat's-milk products. Eight paragraphs down is one of several witness-testimonies (with laboratory tests) that should settle any doubts about James Stewart's and Sharon Palmer's lack of integrity. We want Rawesome open but we do not want any member subjected to anymore mercury in eggs and arsenic in chicken. That is the issue of our actions. We want credibility and honesty regarding food supplied to members.
Rather than James Stewart finding another location for Rawesome, James Stewart begs for your donations to be wasted on legal fees. Know that any donations sent to Rawesome Legal "Defense" Fund will not go toward resolving anyone's rights to healthy food. That will only be resolved with RTCHF's lawsuit against FDA, CDA, LCDHS and City Attorney for raiding Rawesome on June 30, 2010. Those branches of government have not returned to enforce their closure of Rawesome. They have been notified, again, that they lack jurisdiction and consequently violated members' Constitutional Right to Association.
Mr. Stewart faces building and safety code violations for building and installing ALL of the structures on the his property except the toilet. However, even there, he did not get a permit to connect it to the city sewage system. If anyone donates to his Legal Defense Fund, that money will be wasted on attorney-fees to fight for his right to have those structures on his property. It is not a Rawesome legal defense fund issue. According to all Supreme Court-rulings, cities have authority to enforce building and safety codes, If James had been responsible and attained permits years ago, he would not be in this situation. If he would simply find another location for Rawesome, and use organic (by RTCHF-standards) chicken and eggs, there would be no problems.
James Stewart will not be able to keep those structures on the property without obtaining permits. He and his partners in the lot will face severe financial penalties if he continues to keep those structures on the property. Your donations will be wasted on legal fees and penalties. James Stewart wants you to pay for delaying his ultimate removal of Rawesome from the lot he partially owns. If he were practical, he would simply find another location for Rawesome that already has permits as several attorneys and a successful land-owner advised him.
Let us share a similar circumstance. Government branches mentioned above want Aajonus Vonderplanitz silenced and out of the way. They do not like that he has been effective in stopping them from closing farms and clubs that provide healthy food for members. They investigated everything they could about Aajonus. They discovered that he lived in a house that was built without any written permits 19 years ago in Malibu. Aajonus had rented the house for 11 years. Those governments pressured the City to evict him. The owner tried to negotiate with the city attorney but it was fruitless; the city attorney would not bend. The City could have grandfathered the house but refused. The City told the owner that the house in which Aajonus was living had to be vacated by June 2010. Aajonus had to pack all of his belongings and store them before he left for his Asia-tour in May. Aajonus will always contest things that he can contest but to contest building and safety code violations where permits are required is time-consuming, expensive and useless. Aajonus did not even consider using RTCHF-funds to "defend" his desire to remain in that wonderful house and simply searches for another home while he is homeless.
Serendipitously, we were contacted 2 weeks ago about starting another members-food club on the Eastside of Los Angeles so that members who lived on that side did not have to travel 1.5-3 hours weekly to get their food. We agreed to help the 2 people who made the request. Rather than supporting Eastside members, James Stewart called one of RTCHF-contracted suppliers and asked him not to produce any foods for them because he does not want to lose any profits; selfish greedy desire for monopoly? James does not have the authority to make such decisions. He does not have the contracts with the farmers; RTCHF members have the contracts.
If everything goes as we are told, we will have a new outlet for our quality raw food within in 2 weeks but we asked them to centrally locate the club in case James fails. No one at RTCHF has any monetary interest or investment in the proposed new outlet, nor any control except food quality, so we do not know how soon it will open. We will notify everyone when it has materialized.
Here is the testimony regarding Stewart's and Palmer's eggs and chickens:
what [was] stated about the activities of the healthy family farm/sharon palmer and james stewart is even worse:
since i have a daughter which unfortunately has been lead (heavy metal) exposed earlier in her life, we monitored her digestive system
and metabolism regularly through highly qualified doctors and lab tests.
she is on a very strict diet because of her lead exposure.. we have been buying all our meat and eggs through rawesome for a
long time.
we found out our daughter had arsenic and mercury in her system, which she didn't have before. we had no clue where that came
from.
we have done many lab testing on all the food we eat, amongst many others, and found out hffarm (Healthy Family Farm - hff) eggs
have mercury in them and hff chickens have arsenic in them. i have solid scientific proof for this. we've spent thousands of dollars
on testing.
i have confronted james with this and he basically reacted [with denial and anger]. we also have proof james was aware of the fraud
with this food and didn't care at all.
i have pictures showing hff [unfreezing and repackaging different brands [as their own], and feeding animals low-quality grain/food].
to be very honest with you, we feel these people should be brought to justice. (We withheld the name to protect the witness.)
That is so sad. James and Sharon should be apologizing rather than denying. We do not understand their lack of conscience and how they can go day after day defrauding, harming children and other members, collecting big profits and denying responsibility. Mr. Stewart only feigns concern for our members when it comes to his "Healthy" Family Farm interests.
RTCHF does not have Rawesome's members information because Mr. Stewart failed to give them to us. If you know amy members of Venice-branch of Rawesome, please contact them and share all of the information we divulged about this matter. All of them need to know that the eggs and chicken was and still may be contaminated.
We are holding an open-house so that members (except James Stewart and Sharon Palmer's attorneys) may see photographs, read the investigative report and testimonies on October 14th between 9 AM - Noon at:
1 Buccaneer St. #5, Marina Del Rey, CA 90292
(Just two blocks South of Washington Blvd on Oceanfront Walkway
where Venice and Marina Del Rey meet.)
Healthfully,
Right To Choose Healthy Food Trust
Aajonus vonderplanitz
President
Jeff Slay
Vice President
Louis Cangemi
Secretary
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From: RAWESOME CLUB <rawesomeclub@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:24 PM
Subject: RAWESOME RESPONDS TO ASSAULTS
To: organicchef@gmail.com
Dear Rose Ave Rawesome Club members,
For reasons that are not entirely clear to me, Aajonus Vonderplanitz has launched an all out assault against myself, James Stewart, Rawesome’s founder, and one of my suppliers, Sharon Palmer. We are saddened that he has chosen this course now, when more than ever we need to show unity in order to prevail against the government’s onslaught.
For your piece of mind, know that his claims regarding poor animal feed quality, negative laboratory testing results, alleged felony convictions, high temperature oil processing and huge profits are inaccurate and outlandish.
I have always been transparent and shared with everyone "exactly what I know” about the food represented in our club. If a food producer has lied, the minute those suspect items were proven to be false, they were removed from our club.
A new Legal Defense Fund has been set up that is entirely under our control and it is our pledge that all donations to Rose Ave Rawesome Club will only be used to keep our Rose Ave coop club open for our members.
Without your help and support, we will not have enough funds to continue our legal defense and keep Rose Ave Rawesome Club open. Please do your part by making a contribution to our Legal Defense Fund through our Pay Pal account athttp://realfoodrights.com/donate.html.
You can also help by sharing links to our website, blog, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube channel with your community.
Links here.
http://www.realfoodrights.com/ http://realfoodrights.tumblr.com/ http://www.youtube.com/user/RealFoodRIghts http://www.twitter.com/RealFoodRights http://www.facebook.com/pages/Real-Food-Rights/136309869741658 If any of you have any other questions, please feel free to stop in the office next time you’re in our club. As always, we remain truly dedicated to not only protect your right to eat healthy foods, but to ensure that you have a place to go where that choice becomes real. Please let’s focus and stay together as a community.
With love and in great appreciation of your support,
James Stewart, Facilitator
Rawesome Food Club, 665 Rose Ave, Venice, CA "
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