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Chicken Distributors Face New US Cartel Claims

By  |  September 21, 2020

Tyson Foods, Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., and other top poultry processors were hit with a federal antitrust lawsuit in Kansas City, Kan., alleging an industry wide scheme to drive down compensation for the permanently indebted “modern-day sharecroppers” who raise chickens for them, reported Bloomberg Law. 

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    The processors “illegally agreed to share detailed data on grower compensation with one another, with the purpose and effect” of artificially depressing it, the suit says.

    They also used a “no poach” agreement, a pledge not to solicit one another’s chicken “growers”, “to insulate themselves from normal competitive pressures that could potentially erode the effects of their information sharing.