"I received what would be a final email from Cooks Venture: The company was ceasing operations immediately ... What would become of the chickens? There were per

"I received what would be a final email from Cooks Venture: The company was ceasing operations immediately ... What would become of the chickens? There were perhaps a million of them in contract farmers’ barns across Arkansas. And what would become of the Cooks Venture Pioneer breed in general ... Soon I heard reports from the Ozarks that state officials were working to “depopulate” the chicken houses with foam, in some cases without permission from the farmers who owned the barns. So far, it doesn’t seem like anyone has been tasked with the responsibility for cleaning up the carcasses, which prompted a state senator to appeal to the governor to declare a state of emergency." Shades of Next here (the last novel by Michael Crichton): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_(Crichton_novel) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_(Crichton_novel)