Source: AGWEB, 10/7/20

The U.S. government has indicted six more chicken-industry executives over alleged price-fixing, expanding antitrust prosecutions in its probe of the $65 billion poultry sector, according to court documents. In June, the Justice Department indicted Pilgrim's Pride Chief Executive Jayson Penn and three others in its first charges in the criminal probe involving broiler birds, which account for most U.S. chicken meat. Court documents filed on Tuesday show that former Pilgrim's Pride CEO William Lovette has also been indicted.

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