The egg cartel paid a $3 million fine. Investigators say the price-fixing made a thousand times that (thebignewsletter.com)
The producers — Cal-Maine, Versova, Hickman's — agreed to pay roughly $3 million total and donate 53 million eggs to food banks, with no admission that changes the math Matt Stoller put in his headline: the fine is a rounding error against the profits.
The sharpest thread voice wasn't the outrage; it was the correction. It can be both, one reader argued — a genuine hen-culling shock AND collusion riding on top of it. And a commenter who'd spent years citing the egg saga as proof greed doesn't set prices publicly ate his words.
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