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Amish

Courts Vindicate Amish Farmer for Fourth Time

By Farm-to-Consumer | July 13, 2016

If at first you don’t succeed at harassing a farmer out of business, try again…and again…and again. That has been the tack the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Hopewell Township have taken since 2012 against Amish farmer

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This article can be found in: Food Rights News, State News This article is related to: Amish, food clubs, FTCLDF Cases, Pennsylvania

Farmer Hershberger Seeks Full Vindication

By admin | July 3, 2013

Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund Files Appeal in Wisconsin Raw Milk Case
 
Falls Church, VA—July 3, 2013 (GlobeNewswire)—The absolute right to private, unregulated, direct trade with a local raw milk producer is being fully tested in the heart of “America’s Dairyland.” The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund decided to appeal the

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This article can be found in: Food Rights News, Press Room, State News This article is related to: Amish, food freedom, FTCLDF Cases, Hershberger, raw milk, Wisconsin

Wisconsin Aims to Jail Amish Farmer

By admin | June 3, 2013

Farmer Acquitted by Jury Now Threatened with Jail by DOJ
 
Baraboo, Wisconsin—June 3, 2013—Less than a week after the jury acquitted him of three criminal charges, Eric Defort and Phillip Ferris, attorneys for the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ), move to have the judge revoke the

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This article can be found in: Farm Raids, Food Rights News, Press Room, State News This article is related to: Amish, farm raids, FTCLDF Cases, Hershberger, raw milk, Wisconsin

Vernon Hershberger Trial Verdict: Acquitted on Three of Four Charges

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. | May 25, 2013

In what Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund vice president Elizabeth Rich called a victory for the food rights movement, a Sauk County jury acquitted dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger on three of four criminal charges for violations of the Wisconsin food and dairy code after

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This article can be found in: Farm Raids, Food Rights News, Pete Kennedy, Esq., State News This article is related to: Amish, food freedom, FTCLDF Cases, Hershberger, Wisconsin

The Vernon Hershberger Trial Begins Today

By Pete Kennedy, Esq. | May 20, 2013

After months of contentious wrangling between attorneys for the state and the defense, the trial of the Loganville dairy farmer for four criminal misdemeanor violations of the Wisconsin food and dairy code begins today at the Sauk County courthouse in Baraboo with the selection of of the jury. Circuit Court Judge Guy Reynolds has

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This article can be found in: Food Rights News, Pete Kennedy, Esq., State News This article is related to: Amish, food freedom, FTCLDF Cases, Hershberger, Wisconsin

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