WASHINGTON — In comments filed March 24 with USDA's Grain Inspection, Packers & Stockyards Administration (GIPSA), the National Chicken Council explained in great detail the numerous reasons why the agency's interim final rule and proposed rules are ill-advised, would inflict billions of dollars of economic harm to American agriculture, exceed GIPSA's statutory authority, and represent an arbitrary and capricious abuse of federal regulatory authority.
"GIPSA fails to provide an adequate justification for imposing such sweeping and detrimental changes to the poultry industry and does not explain corresponding benefits to counterbalance the billions of dollars of detrimental effects. . .