Chick or treat: The Tipline for 30 July 2021

The world may never know if the chicken or the egg came first, but the Department of Justice plans to get to the bottom of whether the prices or the bids came first in the broiler chicken industry. The Antitrust Division has secured indictments of an additional corporate defendant and four more executives in its criminal price-fixing probe, while hinting that more may be about to hatch.