James Supplying Arsenic and Mercury Eggs

[2010] 

[Aajonus] 

But then there was a problem with James supplying eggs that had mercury in it and chickens that had arsenic in it because he was giving us eggs that were grown off commercial feed in commercial chickens. And the farmer, Sharon Palmer, actually went out and bought commercial chickens and commercial eggs and sold them to James, Rawsome Club as organic, no soy or anything in them and it was absolutely just commercial junk.  

[Attendee] 

How'd you find that out?  

[Aajonus] 

Well, I kept having problem with the change. One time there was heavily salt in it and another time the chicken was just really, really foul and not bad. Like very low-grade feed. So, it's an inconsistency and I know that doesn't happen on an organic farm. There's no inconsistency in quality and the eggs were almost always uniformly sized and always chemically cleaned, washed. And our contract on the membership and with the farmer is that they have to be organic, no soy, and that the eggs are not to be washed. 

They may be wiped with a wet cloth, damp and only water, and that's it. So, none of this was like that and James kept, every time I told James, James just said, "Oh, you know what you're talking about. This is perfectly good". Well, you have to understand he owns part of the. And he made $10,000 a month from it, and Sharon took another $10,000. 

So, they were making a lot of money on taking this commercial stuff and selling it for a very high price and then we were the consumers.  

So, I got fed up with it and in June, right after the, I said, well, this is a good time to stir up everything cause some everything's already stirred up. 

So, I got a detective agency involved in it and had them watch the farm, interview certain old employees that they had and the evidence was outstanding. The employees were actually fired, they were disgruntled because they kept telling her, "Wait a minute, you're selling this as organic at 12 farmer's markets and to Rawsome, and we know what you're buying. We know what you're doing. You have us cleaning the chickens and putting", and we've got pictures, taking them out of the companies bagging and putting them into non-labeled bags and then giving them to us.  

And then one another reason we found out about that I finally did something about it was that when we started investigating, it started coming up about this one person who had written the district attorney up in that area saying that my little girl had lead poisoning. She's in a very serious state, and so we check everything that goes into her and everything we bought was from Rawsome for this period, and her mercury and arsenic levels started hitting the roof.  

So, they had the eggs tested and the chicken tested. The chicken came up high in arsenic and the eggs came up high in mercury. So, we have that evidence too. So, it's, it's just outstanding and it's outrageous. James still denies it. He's in total denial about it and we just have to go through legal means to settle it cuz there's a lot of angry people.  

I know that I've been working with people who are very, very chemically sensitive and when your chicken with arsenic in it and mercury, made it very difficult. It's only been that difficult in the past two years that we've been getting those eggs and that chicken.  

Every time I came to LA and would eat those eggs, and I eat a lot of eggs. I eat anywhere from, let's say 8 - 50 a day, and that's how much mercury I was consuming and because their commercial eggs are not good value. So, I was getting these big sores all over my neck every time two days after I got here in LA, every time. And I just thought, well, it's better food, every time that I'm here, I'm getting the best. 

And then when I found out from this report from the investigator, and then this one father with that little girl testing it, I realized what it was. So, I stopped eating the eggs and the chicken and all the breakout went away. Now I've returned to Los Angeles last Friday. I don't have that breakout, so it's a very, very bad thing that James Stewart did. Very bad thing.  

And he was told also, the ex-employees told him what she was doing. So he was told many times, and we have all this testimony in writing, signed. 

[Attendee] 

I'm kind of unfamiliar with this whole case and like you're getting the raw eggs... 

[Aajonus] 

Not anymore. I tell everybody not to buy it. He's still carrying her eggs.  

I'm talking about Rawsome up in Venice. 

Mothers. I don't trust any eggs from the store.  

[Aajonus] 

Really?  

[Aajonus] 

Yeah, because they only grow them in big houses. Maybe they're not small cages.