Yes, especially if you count burning down poultry farms and cattle barns,
and infecting poultry with diseases. Yes, that's price fixing.
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Yes. JD Rockefeller was a notorious monopolist. He had tons of cash flow from his oil businesses. He would move into a new territory and try to buy out to competition. If they didn’t agree he would sell at a loss until he drove the local independent producers out of business. Of he would simply have their warehouses burned down. Allegedly.
At least that’s what I learned from my AP US History teacher. I doubt she was completely wrong. Ultimately Standard Oil had to be broken up later. Didn’t harm him or his family he still owned a big piece of all the new companies.
There are two or three companies controlling the processing plants. Tyson and a Brazilian company. They pushed the small guys out and they are the ones fixing the market. The farmers are not getting it. I don’t know anything about this agri company but knowing this DOJ I would bet they are innocent
“ Yes, especially if you count burning down poultry farms and cattle barns,
and infecting poultry with diseases. ”
There is a lot of meat around so that’s not affecting anything.
Grain is cheap so animals can be fed to higher weights so more meat produced that way .
Not long after the lockdown, a lot of cattle herds were refuced. Beef was artificially low for a few months and then shot up.