Plaintiffs in the antitrust class action lawsuit, Brown et al v. JBS USA Food Company et al, petitioned the court on Aug. 7 to dismiss their case against Triumph Foods. The lawsuit, filed in November 2022, in the U.S. District Court of Colorado, alleged that pork and beef companies engaged in fixing and depressing employee wages.
On Monday, plaintiffs asked that all claims against Triumph be dismissed with prejudice. In exchange, Triumph will agree to cooperate with the plaintiffs as they continue their legal action against the remaining companies named in the lawsuit.
“These allegations were false and bring hardship to farmers and families like mine that worked hard to break out of the traditional market to create Triumph,” Kenny Brinker, owner of Harrison Creek Farm and president of the Board of Directors of the Allied Producers’ Cooperative, a co-op of smaller Midwest pork farmers, said in a statement.
Allied Producers’ Cooperative is comprised of 22 small pork producers and is one of the owners of Triumph Foods. Triumph Foods is unique within the industry because it is one of the only farmer-owned pork processors in the U.S., the company said in a release.
Triumph Foods is solely focused on processing for its farmers and does not directly market nor sell its pork products, the company explained in a release.
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