The Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund said the weekend verdict in favor of Wisconsin dairy farmer Vernon Hershberger “should be a major step in increasing the freedom of people around the country to be able to obtain the foods of their choice from the course of their choice regardless of whether that source has a license from the state.”
Hershberger was charged with running a farm store, a dairy and and a dairy plant facility without state licenses.
Hershberger’s attorney, Glen Reynolds, said in a statement: “This is as close to Prohibition as anything I have ever seen, but this time it’s milk and an Amish farmer rather than liquor and gangsters.”
The jury agreed with Hershberger, acquitting him on the main counts. The only one on which he was convicted dealt with his admission that he removed state security tape from his supplies of food....
