Geoff Manne on Meat Prices

Successful Farming – ICLE President Geoffrey Manne was quoted by Successful Farming in a piece about a House Judiciary Committee on hearing on the effects of competition on the food supply. You can read the full piece here.

Economists from the Heritage Foundation and the International Center for Law and Economics said at the hearing that other factors, such as supply chain disruptions or surging consumer demand, were responsible for inflation. “The purpose of antitrust law is to protect competition rather than to guarantee low prices in and of themselves,” said Geoffrey Manne of the ICLE.