The Compelling Case Against Agri Stats
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 28, 2023
CONTACT: Ashley Woolheater, woolheater@openmarketsinstitute.org
MINNEAPOLIS – Open Markets Institute Food Program Manager Claire Kelloway released the following statement regarding the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against the meat industry data company Agri Stats:
“Agri Stats’ detailed information exchange has been at the center of several price-fixing and wage-fixing scandals that have depressed wages for workers and prices for farmers in the meat industry. We applaud the Department of Justice’s action here to stop problematic information exchanges,” says Claire Kelloway, food program manager at the Open Markets Institute. “Next, we’d hope antitrust enforcers will tackle the high levels of concentration in meat processing that facilitate collusion and give packers power to set wages for workers and prices for farmers.”
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