Things are heating up in Baraboo, Wisconsin as a long awaited food rights trial approaches.
Raw milk drinkers are outraged
that Wisconsin DATCP is bringing criminal charges against a farmer who
serves a private buying club. Do citizens have a right to contract with a
producer and grow food to their own standards? That is what is at stake
in this case. – Kimberly Hartke, Publicist Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund
Customers and Other Supporters to Attend Court with Farmer
Food rights activists from around North America will meet at the Sauk
County Courthouse in this tiny town on May 20 to support Wisconsin
dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger and food sovereignty. Hershberger, whose
trial begins that day, is charged with four criminal misdemeanors that could land this husband and father in county jail for up to 30 months with fines of over $10,000…
The Wisconsin Department of Agricultural Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) targeted Hershberger for supplying a private buying club with fresh milk and other farm products.
DATCP has charged Hershberger with, among other things, operating a retail
food establishment without a license. Hershberger repeatedly rejects
this, citing that he provides foods only to paid members in a private
buying club and is not subject to state food regulations.
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