By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/05/2026*How* do they rig those prices? After all, it's *very* illegal for these four companies to get together around a table to rig prices. Instead, they use a "price consultancy" called Agri Stats that does the price-rigging for them. 18/ 1110
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/05/2026Every week, the packers send a detailed list of all their costs and prices into Agri Stats, and Agri Stats "advises" them all to raise all their prices at once, and anyone who doesn't play along is pushed out of the Agri Stats cartel. 19/ 190
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/05/2026Everyone wins - except families paying for groceries: pluralistic.net/2023/10/04/d... 20/pluralistic.netPluralistic: For 40 years, Big Meat has openly colluded to rig prices (04 Oct 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 180
