Some of America’s Top Chicken Purveyors Are Under Investigation for Price Fixing

The U.S. Justice Department is pursuing a criminal investigation into claims that some of the country’s biggest poultry companies — including Tyson, Perdue, and Pilgrim’s Pride — orchestrated a massive price-fixing scheme involving broiler chickens. Maplevale’s suit claims that Tyson Foods, Sanderson Farms, Perdue Farms, and Pilgrim’s Pride worked together to drive up the price of broiler chickens by destroying flocks of breeder hens, thereby reducing production rates. • U.S. Probes Claims of Poultry Price-Fixing [Bloomberg]
• Why Chicken Producers Are Under Investigation for Price Fixing [NYT]
• Justice Department Investigates Chicken Industry [WSJ]

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