A Biden administration grand scheme to inject competition into the meatpacking industry has left an Iowa chicken ranch in bankruptcy and the landscape littered with 1.3 million state-euthanized chicken carcasses. Minnesota-based Pure Prairie Poultry, the recipient of a $6.9 million grant and a $38.7 million USDA-guaranteed loan declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in September, citing higher-than-expected costs and lower-than-expected poultry prices. It notified Iowa that it could no longer afford to feed its chickens and had stopped doing so at least two weeks earlier. One subcontractor said, “The chickens would swarm around her, pecking at her legs in hunger.”
Like so many disasters, this started out with a great idea proposed by the venture Marxists who grift their way to the top of most federal agencies.
The Biden administration in 2021 unveiled an…
