A contract farmer for Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. is blowing the whistle on what he says is the poultry company’s repeated violations of federal law covering the raising of birds.
Eric Hedrick, a West Virginia-based chicken producer, sued Pilgrim’s Pride, a unit of Brazil’s scandal-plagued JBS SA, alleging the company retaliated by sending him diseased chicks and moldy feed when he objected to some of its practices.
