As meat prices continue to rise, Biden administration takes aim at Big Chicken
Source: Washington Post
Business
As meat prices continue to rise, Biden administration takes aim at Big Chicken
The government blames high food prices on pandemic profiteering in the meat industry and aims to prosecute poultry conglomerates for price fixing, wage fixing and other antitrust infractions
By Laura Reiley
Today at 11:48 a.m. EDT
As consumers chafe at growing food price inflation, the Biden administration is pointing a finger at some of the countrys largest meat companies, suggesting pandemic profiteering may be responsible for the steep rise in the prices of beef, pork and poultry.
Recently, the prices for beef, pork and poultry have all increased far more than other kinds of food, accounting for as much as half of price inflation at grocery stores.
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By Laura Reiley
Laura Reiley is the business of food reporter. She was previously a food critic at the Tampa Bay Times, San Francisco Chronicle and Baltimore Sun. She has authored four books, has cooked professionally and is a graduate of the California Culinary Academy. She is a two-time James Beard finalist and in 2017 was a Pulitzer finalist. Twitter https://twitter.com/lreiley
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/10/04/poultry-companies-antitrust-crackdown/
Ritabert
(667 posts)....chicken in 10 years. Don't miss them at all.
Coventina
(27,101 posts)OneCrazyDiamond
(2,031 posts)paleotn
(17,911 posts)We eat local meat if at all possible. More expensive than industrial meat, but that automatically limits our consumption.
Raine
(30,540 posts)CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Magoo48
(4,705 posts)Big Chicken is a Big Polluter, as is Big Hoggs and Big Beef.
Hug trees, eat plants, worship dirt.
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IronLionZion
(45,426 posts)this is all a liberal conspiracy
MiniMe
(21,714 posts)We still have some of the side left, but I ordered another side for this year. We should be getting it in December. It has been the best beef ever.
moose65
(3,166 posts)Not BIG CHICKEN!!!1!1!!!!1
yonder
(9,663 posts)No wait... Sorry.
House of Roberts
(5,168 posts)BumRushDaShow
(128,839 posts)(sorry I had to... )
Six117
(205 posts)Gouge people who are already hurting -for every penny possible, and foment public discontent with a Democratic administration.
Yup, sounds about *right*.
summer_in_TX
(2,731 posts)Teasing out the multiplicity of causes will be interesting.
cinematicdiversions
(1,969 posts)Que that one holocaust poem... meanwhile.