'People Need to Go to Jail for This Sh*t': Video Shows How US Meat Industry Colludes to Boost Prices

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'People Need to Go to Jail for This Sh*t': Video Shows How US Meat Industry Colludes to Boost Prices
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Jake Johnson is a senior editor and staff writer for Common Dreams.

A former grocery executive told a progressive media outlet in a video released Tuesday that 'people fucking need to go to jail' over a long-running scheme in which dominant U.S. meat industry players have used information provided by a little-known data analytics company to increase prices and pad their bottom lines.

''The complaint alleges that Agri Stats violated Section 1 of the Sherman Act by collecting, integrating, and distributing competitively sensitive information related to price, cost, and output among competing meat processors,' the DOJ said. 'This conduct harms customers, including grocery stores and American families.

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