The ongoing drumbeat from the Biden-Harris administration blaming the meat and poultry industry for rising meat prices in the United States was amplified by presidential candidate Kamala Harris on August 16 in her first major policy statement since the Democrat Party chose her to replace Joe Biden as their standard bearer in the November race for White House control.
Blaming the food industry for alleged “corporate price gouging” resulting in rising bills paid at the checkout counters of supermarkets and other food stores, the vice president is advocating the establishment of price limits on groceries at the federal level. In response, Gary Kushner(pictured above), interim president of the Washington, DC-headquartered National Chicken Council (NCC) issued the following statement:
“Americans are seeing inflation in nearly every part of their livelihoods – rent, gas, automobiles, furniture – not just in the meat case.
“Chicken prices are largely affected by supply and demand, by major input costs like corn, soybeans, energy, packaging, transportation, and by fiscal policy and burdensome government regulations. Not price gouging.
“It’s time for this administration to stop using the meat and poultry industry as a scapegoat and a distraction for the root causes of inflation and the significant challenges facing our economy.”
Meawwhile, a campaign statement on behalf of former President Donald J. Trump and opponent of Harris in the 2024 US Presidential election, labeled the vice president’s price-control fixing ideas as “Maduroesque” and more “third-world” than American.
