The Pilgrim’s settlement is just one part of the multidistrict litigation that kicked off in 2016 with food service distributer Maplevale Farms suing poultry farms and chicken product producers over purported price fixing of “broiler chickens” — a chicken bred to gain lots of weight very fast.
Over the years, several bulk purchasers of the broiler chicken product like Walmart, Kraft Heinz and Nestle joined the suit and the case ballooned with over 100 associated lawsuits and more than 7,400 filings.
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