More Walker over - Reach - Wi dairy farmer faces jail

welcome back to world view now a few weeks ago pete kennedy joined us to discuss the legal battle of the transporter brought new across state lines that's unpasteurized milk and how that opens hard-working farmers to the specter of rest well indeed house now the issue receives global attention starting next week is a trial begins in tiny saw county courthouse in wisconsin they're going to be filing suit against the local the reformer vernon hirsch burgers charged with four criminal misdemeanors that could land this husband and father in county jail for up to thirty months confides in excess of ten thousand dollars now the wisconsin department of agricultural trade and consumer protection targeted hirsch supply private buying with fresh milk and other farm products will want to governor scott walker withdrawals fortified would you go out to cheese heads of the men and women who produces in the dairy state you'd better be prepared for a fight joining us today is with his right side she is co-founder of the farm from freedom coalition and the grass fed on the hill farm buying clout she spent the last six years representing small farms and consumers at the state legislature and in the halls of congress looking for a few restrictions on farmers loses a mother of five young children whom she feeds nutrient dense foods from local farmers she knows and loves liz leipzig welcome to world view hi thanks so much for having me on an thanks recovering us important topic goes great to have you who is this issue just before mixes how and why covered with here prison pursuing his intended for with his state has sold anymore bigger problems live in that really that big question and that they could we could figure that i think we'd be able to act to solve the issue and they when they go after them anymore but i i think we really like comes down to you guys that the government protecting the interests of the dairy industry no s the small farmers are threat to that on d_-day are indeed as this booking room moves away from genetically modified and other foods towards uh... wanting to know where it is it's the local forces and become leads how did you personally become involved in the in the world issue well i guess i'm out of the ronald issue in my oldest daughter who is almost eleven which is a baby and i decided to transition my family ever to run out of the change in status it became very difficult and my state i live in maryland together although and when i realized just how difficult was it why it got me really a that and had not really motivated me to get active politically on at and ever since that is just an snowballing from there yet it to you you've been active in in starting this thing called the form food coalition tell us a little bit about what that is and how that works well defines a freedom of religion is basically of an organization dedicated to helping kernigan purser direct firing consumer transactions so where there is a poor farmers are facing incarceration where their health facility people who are looking for networks of food by uh... you know we we work with other ngos on that g_m_ out issue and we work with groups like the kennedys from the consumer legal defense fund and just collaborate as much as possible to make sure that people are aware that they have the right to procure the fields of their choice from the producer of their choice and said that producers can feel like they have support in in food production even when they know that this state does not support them we're talking the other way with his crises of the form from the freemen collision viewed in the scandal uh... list let's take a look into some of the specifics of that its case and is this uh... potentially a test case org more of a nuisance to big food producers uh... absolutely this is a test case basis uh... precedent-setting either way the status of the scene tremendous energy and resources on s they've already spent about three years of the prosecution many many pretrial hearings they're calling in over forty witnesses and they've been allocated five days for brennan's criminal trial does have a big deal to the state and it's a big deal fast because it burnin impertinent found guilty orthodontist media impact a bank that is amazing farmer husband and father will go spend time in jail and the bigger picture of that is that the way he operates is buying clout through through a private contact with with members that way people procuring phases now crept across the country this will set a precedent either way so if you look at it if you don't need this week as you said it's been a deeds one farmer but because of potential for ripple ripple affect obviously worldwide is the foods so worried about this one former watch do you think that same type of action against farmers across the country so it's not just described farmer unfortunately however in this case is president that indicate that in testing that private buying clout that the con contractual arrangement there and aids testing a feeler really that came out a couple years ago and which at the wisconsin judge basically said nobody has the right to consumer fears of their choice it's really a testing for that started to tell us a little bit more about the future that uh... audience would be interested in hearing well i'm not sure an aqua all the details translate there was another case in wisconsin involving those in her farm and the judge ruled a few things in that case including that people do not have the inherent right to the milk from their own and hal nor do they have the right to procure the fears of their choice or he healthy fats they don't have a right to t dot and i mean that's not predate presents to declare that well a couple weeks after he made his ruling he retired and went to work for monsanto okay sumo wrestlers requested buses these uh... was that there's so much that the jury is still one of the weaknesses in what was going to for food for coalition you could read more about the coalition's work alone w_w_w_ dot pharmaceutics freedom that's one word or or and you can follow who is on twitter at farm food freedom now coming up on the program will see another piece from austin partners of pharmacologist sustainability and their recent conference that fighting the frightened industry you're watching world view with dennis campbell stay right here