The investigation could spell bad news for Big Chicken
called “Chickentown.”) The suit alleges that these companies used a subscription service called Agri Stats to share information with each other about the age of their chickens and operating costs. Carstensen points out that trading this kind of info would be “extraordinarily beyond what any rational business would do.
” According to the, the price of broiler chickens jumped by 50 percent between 2008 to 2016, despite the fact that cost of feeding the chickens went down during this period. Three of these companies — Sanderson, Tyson, and Pilgrim’s Pride — controlOf course, if the DOJ does find credible evidence that there was a price fixing scheme, the investigation could lead to criminal charges or injunctions for these four big companies.
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