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The U.S. government is on a global egg hunt, seeking exports from countries in Europe and elsewhere to ease a severe shortage that has caused egg prices at grocery stores to hit record highs.
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It’s Easter time - go and fucking find them yourself.
Vance “Denmark hasn’t done enough for Greenland”
Also Vance “We need your eggs cause our prices has skyrocketed for some reason.”
Eggs are cheap up here in Canada…
Pathetic…
Don’t sell them
This administration is a bunch of eggocentrics
I’d vote to ship as many eggs as the market can bear. With the proviso that each egg comes painted with the face of Donald Trump and an “information” pamphlet…
The eggs are all in Greenland.
Russia is hoarding eggs. Largest country of the world. Most eggs. Easy to fight, Mr. 47!
Can anyone explain why there is a shortage of eggs?
Is it bird flu? Or did a big buisness close down? Tarrif?
What is it?
Bird flu. millions of chickens are having to be euthanized. entire farms.
Crazy how people are like: “where my eggs?” And not enough people are like: “poor chickens, we need to do something.” Everyone deserves this “egg crisis” that only effects people who even eat eggs for no reason.
This really speaks volumes to how little people care about where their food comes from.
The amount of meat, for example, that is just thrown away sickens me. As if it’s not bad enough that we farm animals in deplorable conditions, we kill them so they can be thrown straight into the trash.
Sometimes, when I am reminded of the plague our species is upon this planet, I just can’t care about keeping homo sapiens sapiens from going extinct.
Isn’t birdflu common? I have it every year in my country but does not have such a large scale disruption.
Seem like a new variant or something
I think it’s still H5N1.
The main issue is that america loves it big, and big chicken farms make an outbreak more likely and way more catastropic.
A farmer would have to kill 100 chicken. With a big factory, it could be well over a million.
Just don’t Europe. Keep your eggs.
Our eggs are too good for the US anyway: not bleached and can be safely eaten raw.
“USA first and only! Tarrifs for you, you and you! We hate employees. Healthcare is a benefit for the rich! You owe us money because we say so! We’ll take greenland one way or another. Nazi salutes in the presidential office are cool! Ukraine needs to be thankful that they are allowed to give us all their natural resources!”
Moments later.
“Hey, btw, would you mind giving us some eggs please? What? Why not?”
Maybe EU should… Put 200% tariffs on it?
#fartofthedeal
A country doesn’t enforce tarriffs on other countries… unless I’m misunderstanding what you mean.
“Pathetic.”
Didn’t even say thank you once
Egg prices aren’t even being driven by a shortage. Every local market near me has thousands of eggs that are about to expire. Which means they have sat there long enough to expire, because nobody is buying them. People are seeing the increased egg prices, and simply eating fewer eggs.
Studies have found that the recent issues should only affect egg prices by ~10-15%. But instead, we have seen increases as high as 200-500%. The real issue is greedflation; Egg producers did the math on supply and demand, and realized selling less eggs could be more profitable. Imagine they can sell 5 egg cartons at $2 each, or 2 cartons at $6 each. The latter nets them more profit and they don’t have to produce+package+ship as many eggs, which lowers their overhead costs.
The only thing foreign eggs would solve is that it would introduce competition. But even then, why would other countries’ egg producers have any incentive to compete on price? They can simply match existing prices, blame the cost on higher international shipping, and make more profit too.
Your experience is interesting, because where I am it absolutely is a shortage. Most stores are putting a limit of 1 dozen eggs per customer because it was getting so bad. The only place where I can reliably find eggs is the farmer’s market and the organic store.
“Freeloaders”
I’d hate it if we were to bail them out.
The US is raising egg prices in my country. Keep your hands away from my eggs!
