Posted on 06/04/2020 12:58:22 PM PDT by Dacula
JUSTICE NEWS Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, June 3, 2020 Senior Executives at Major Chicken Producers Indicted on Antitrust Charges First Charges Filed in Ongoing Investigation into Fixing Prices of Broiler Chickens A federal grand jury in the U.S. District Court in Denver, Colorado, returned an indictment against four executives for their role in a conspiracy to fix prices and rig bids for broiler chickens, the Department of Justice announced.
“Particularly in times of global crisis, the division remains committed to prosecuting crimes intended to raise the prices Americans pay for food,” said Assistant Attorney General Makan Delrahim of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. “Executives who cheat American consumers, restauranteurs, and grocers, and compromise the integrity of our food supply, will be held responsible for their actions.”
In my area of Georgia, The Poultry Captial of the World, most of the population is from outside of the United States. If the Immigration Department were to show up, almost all of the chicken processing factories would shut down.
All of the plants, including Tyson, are within a few miles of each other. Tyson may not be a part of this indictment, but they do rig their prices. Maybe the Hillary lobby is covering for them?
I wish Sonny Perdue would do something and make our lives better, but when he was our governor, he did not do a thing.
There was a Tyson processing in the town we lived in before we moved to Spain.
Peak beak.
If you’ve ever bought fast food chicken you’ve bought from all of them. About the only way to avoid it is to raise and process your own.
Me either. Same reason
They need better hen supervisors.
And better interns. Kramerica never had a chance!
Those dirty cluckers...
And someday, in a galaxy far far away, they will be convicted and pay some fines and we will still pay high prices and the gooberment will piss away the small amount paid in fines.
Nothing new to see here citizen, move along.
Probably won’t see it in our lifetime.
Costanza!!!
I’ll have Costanza on the next plane!
Nah, I don’t do much fast food, and no chicken, just burgers or pizza. And at sit-down restaurants I always get steak.
The times I’ve had Tyson chicken (from the supermarket) it was very tough. Perdue is better, IMO...
The Country burns, a Race War is imminent, a successful Coup is in progress and we worry about paying $.50 a pound more for Chicken. I’m just glad we can still buy Chicken.
#13. Re “I hope they’re (chickens) are not in bed with the Clintons”.
Well, if they are female chickens, you know both Bill and Hillary will be in bed with them, and the younger, the better.
Talk about an “ECH”!!!!
Yep.I wonder whose next?
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