{"id":71872,"date":"2019-08-05T14:39:53","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T14:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/?p=71872"},"modified":"2019-08-05T14:39:53","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T14:39:53","slug":"is-the-us-chicken-industry-cheating-its-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/is-the-us-chicken-industry-cheating-its-farmers\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the US Chicken Industry Cheating Its Farmers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\"><em><strong>Leaked documents reveal remarkable power US poultry industry holds over farmers struggling to stay afloat on thin margins<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Poultry firms in the US have access to detailed information about farmers\u2019 pay that gives them extraordinary power over suppliers when negotiating the terms of their contracts, leaked documents have shown.<\/p>\n<p>A report for poultry companies produced by a secretive data-sharing firm, reviewed in a joint investigation by the Guardian and the&nbsp;<a data-link-name=\"in body link\" href=\"https:\/\/thefern.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Food and Environment Reporting Network<\/a>&nbsp;(Fern), shows sensitive market information including how much producers are being paid per chicken.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">US anti-trust officials are currently conducting a&nbsp;<a data-link-name=\"in body link\" href=\"https:\/\/thefern.org\/ag_insider\/justice-dept-intervenes-in-major-poultry-price-fixing-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">grand jury investigation<\/a>&nbsp;into poultry companies in response to a major&nbsp;<a data-link-name=\"in body link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/app\/details\/USCOURTS-ilnd-1_16-cv-08637\/USCOURTS-ilnd-1_16-cv-08637-0\/summary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">class-action lawsuit<\/a>&nbsp;alleging that the firms use information supplied by Agri Stats, a data company, to keep farmers\u2019 pay low and chicken prices high.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px;\">Agri Stats produces daily reports for the poultry industry on chicken production, and has enabled companies to share detailed financial information with one another for&nbsp;<a data-link-name=\"in body link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/features\/2017-02-15\/is-the-chicken-industry-rigged\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">decades<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poultry firms in the US have access to detailed information about farmers\u2019 pay that gives them extraordinary power over suppliers when negotiating the terms of their contracts, leaked documents have shown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":71873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1031],"tags":[5],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is the US Chicken Industry Cheating Its Farmers? 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