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
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/05/2026Agri Stats has been doing this since the Reagan years, but they grew steadily more brazen, until, back in 2023, Biden's DOJ brought history's most obvious, easily won antitrust case against them: www.meatpoultry.com/articles/291... 21/meatpoultry.comDOJ sues Agri Stats for complicity in meat market manipulationThe data company allegedly distributed competitively sensitive information among participating meat and poultry processors. 191
