Trump FTC Urged to Probe Egg Giants Reaping 'Dramatic' Profits by Keeping Prices High | Common Dreams
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"Evidence indicates that by not increasing their supply, the five dominant egg firms are forcing prices to stay high while reporting dramatic profit increases and level sales," according to the group Farm Action.

An advocacy group dedicated to fighting corporate agriculture monopolies on Wednesday urged federal antitrust enforcers to take action against egg producers that the group accuses of taking advantage of the bird flu crisis in order to raise prices, inflate their profits, and consolidate their market power.

  • wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io
    9·
    4 hours ago

    Just deregulate the eggs! No inoculations, no inspections.

    If regular Joe anti-vaxxer wants to guzzle 6 blended raw eggs for breakfast well then I say let ‘em have it!

  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
    24·
    6 hours ago

    Step 1: Ignore the problem.

    Step 2: Create another problem so it seems like it’s not your fault and then “solve” it.

    Step 3: Mission accomplished.

    Not saying that price gouging doesn’t exist and I’m sure some places are fully taking advantage of the situation. I’m just saying that bird flu isn’t gonna just disappear because you wanna pretend it doesn’t exist.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      42 minutes ago

      I don’t know; the level of delusion is very, very high. As others have pointed out, the birds that have the flu are not going to last long, but we already saw that crazy spokescreature flapping her face about farms culling birds as if it was Biden’s personal kink being done to annoy good 'Mericans or something.

      I could easily see them acting as if it’s not a problem by letting them sell tainted eggs from birds dying of bird flu - maybe even insisting on it, given how crazy these people are. And at least some of the stupid base will probably insist on being able to buy them, too. These are the people that think RFK jr is great, the same people that went Full Karen over masks, social distancing and the Covid vaccine. These are the same idiots that argued that people were only dying “with Covid”, not fucking FROM COVID. The kind of people that cheered on monsters like DeSantis yelling at kids for wearing masks.

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
    28·
    8 hours ago

    I’m sure they are, but don’t you dare ask why bird flu is such a problem in the first place.