The Buffalo County District Attorney has been urged by Animal Partisan and the Humane Farming Association to bring charges against Pure Prairie Poultry (PPP) in western Wisconsin for violating the state's animal protection regulations. PPP left thousands of birds and their contracted guardians without support following its sudden bankruptcy attempt, and the complaint, which was filed in late June 2025, seeks 30 misdemeanor counts—one for each chicken that was discovered dead from starvation on Terry and Dawn Filla's farm near Mondovi on September 29, 2024. Additionally, the organizations ask the firm to pay them $300,000 for breaching their agreement to provide the birds with food and care.
According to the complaint, Terry and Dawn Filla, contract growers in the Mondovi, Wisconsin, area, produced birds for PPP as part of a production agreement that required the firm to supply feed and make transportation arrangements. The pair stated that after multiple unanswered requests for additional feed, their supply of grain ran out on September 28, 2024, allowing the chickens to be murdered weeks later for the highest possible profit. Since PPP had already missed its deadline for collecting 24,000 hens, the contracted farmers were helpless to stop the birds from suffering and dying, and they went 19 days without nourishment. The Fillas had no means of supplying food as a result of the terrible experience, and the corporation is said to owe them $170,000 in compensation.
“Here we had thousands and thousands of chickens that were not given food for many, many weeks by a company that was contractually obligated to do so,” stated Will Lowery
In addition to bringing PPP to justice, Animal Partisan and the Humane Farming Association want to end systemic entitlement and corporate exploitation in exploitative animal agribusiness, which treats nonhuman animals as commodities for financial gain.
