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
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/05/2026And wouldn't you know it, Trump just settled that case, in a way that will make Agri Stats much, much richer and give them far more opportunities to rig prices: prospect.org/2026/05/08/m... 22/prospect.orgMeat Industry Price Fixer Sentenced to Make Money - The American ProspectAgri Stats collected proprietary information from all meat producers and encouraged price increases for decades. After a Trump DOJ settlement, it’s allowed to stay in business. 1120
