Kansas Concedes Law on Raw Milk Ads is Unconstitutional

ASSOCIATED PRESS Dairy November 8, 2019

A central Kansas farm couple prevailed in a lawsuit challenging a state law that limited advertising of raw milk.

Shawnee County District Court Judge Richard Anderson signed a consent judgment Wednesday ending a lawsuit filed by goat farmers Coraleen and Mark Bunner, who run Shepherd’s Gate Dairy near Pfeifer.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the Kansas attorney general and agriculture secretary conceded the 50-year-old law was unconstitutional.

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