Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster has sought a court order to force the destruction of raw milk cheese at a farm in the Ozarks, but the owners of the Morningland Dairy dispute whether their cheese is contaminated.
The cheese standoff began in June, following a raid in California of Rawesome Foods. With guns drawn, federal, state and local authorities entered the Venice raw food club and seized cartons of raw milk and packages of unpasteurized goat cheese.
A Los Angeles Times report treated the action as somewhat of a laughing matter, with quotes such as "I still can't believe they took away our yogurt." Comedy Central's Colbert Report satirically re-enacted the raid.
But the California Department of Food and Agriculture notified Missouri officials that Morningland cheese confiscated in the raid contained traces of Listeria Monocytogenes and Staphylococcus Aureus.
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