The Profit Prophet

The Chicken Cartel: How a Sleepy Commodity Business Quietly Became One of America's Most Ruthless Price-Fixing Machines

Episode Summary

You eat chicken twice a week and never think about where it comes from. You should. Behind the grocery store sticker price is a decades-long saga of coordinated collusion, destroyed family farms, and a handful of executives who allegedly turned a barnyard bird into a masterclass in market manipulation — and mostly got away with it.