Pork Antitrust

Product purchasers for Subway restaurants claim key U.S. pork producers --- including Hormel, Smithfield and Tyson --- conspired with a pork industry data service to regulate the price of their products, causing Subway to pay inflated prices for sandwich meat.

Young hogs at a farm in North Carolina. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome, File)

HARTFORD, Conn. — Product purchasers for Subway restaurants claim key U.S. pork producers — including Hormel, Smithfield and Tyson — conspired with a pork industry data service to regulate the price of their products, causing Subway to pay inflated prices for sandwich meat.

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