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More than 40 contract chicken growers and farms in Sevier County filed suit contending Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. lied to them before requiring expensive equipment upgrades without promise of future flocks, according to Wednesday’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.

The suit, filed Friday by Clark Mason of Clark Mason Attorneys in Little Rock, contends the chicken company misuses its power as the nation’s largest chicken producer to bully growers into investing thousands of dollars in poultry houses that are abusive to the birds, environmentally wasteful to operate and economically unworkable ...