Chicken Wing Company Says NFL Player Protests Are Hurting Sales
- U.S. wing prices have slumped for three straight months
- Sanderson shares post their biggest decline since 2004
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First it was pizza. Now the NFL is catching flack for hurting sales of another game-time favorite: chicken wings.
A slump in chicken wing prices has Sanderson Farms Inc., one of the nation’s biggest poultry producers, wondering aloud if the player-protest controversy in the National Football League might be to blame.