A Georgia chicken company has offered to settle a lawsuit that accused the chicken industry of colluding to keep meat prices artificially high. Fieldale Farms Corp. proposed to pay $2.25 million to settle the charges, according to terms of a settlement agreed with plaintiffs in the case and submitted in federal court in Illinois. The company also agreed to provide documents and other information to the plaintiffs, which are suing 13 other chicken companies in the same case.
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