U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack defended his agency’s $46 million investment in an Iowa chicken processing plant that shut down in bankruptcy, leaving the state in custody of 1.3 million chickens it later destroyed when it found itself unable to sell them to other processors. Vilsack, a former Iowa governor, said Thursday in a news conference that the $38.7 million loan guarantee and ... More @Wikipedia
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