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Two months earlier, an Ohio farmer named Angela Huffman had carefully composed an email of her own. Hers, too, was about eggs and a possible crime.
“Attached please find a letter outlining potential monopolization and anticompetitive coordination that we uncovered,” she wrote to the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department.
Huffman, who scrambled her organic eggs with feta, asked the agencies to investigate alleged profiteering and collusion by the companies dominating America’s egg market — in particular, Cal-Maine.
Huffman sent the letter on behalf of Farm Action, a watchdog organization she co-founded. When the 42-year-old farmer wasn’t breeding sheep or tending chickens, she was leading a team of six people who fought corporate practices they said were hurting small farmers, food chain workers and consumers.
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