Summary
US egg prices are rising due to a severe avian flu outbreak that has killed 14.7 million egg-laying hens since January, surpassing all of 2023’s losses.
Wholesale egg prices have surged, with shortages driving costs as high as $8.35 per dozen in California.
Restaurants and bakeries are struggling with higher costs, while grocery stores try to absorb some of the increase.
The issue has become politically charged as Trump and Republicans blame Biden.
Wait, wait, wait. I thought magic donvict had a recipe to make bird flu disappear overnight, just like he had for Covid.
Concepts of a recipe.
I am still annoyed at all the news using verbiage like “the avian flu outbreak that has killed 14.7 million…” when in fact the avian flu didn’t kill them. The corporate farmers did the killing usually using horribly inhumane methods (like “foaming” and “Ventilation Shutdown”)
H5N1 has a 90% to 100% fatality rate in chickens according to the CDC. Either the chickens are killed by farmers before the virus spreads more, or the virus will kill the chickens.
Sure, eggs are going to be more expensive, but at least he lowered the price of eggs, right?
This week: The price of eggs has been decreased to an all time low of $15 a dozen.
Next week: The price of eggs has been decreased to an all time low $20 a dozen!
What’s wild is we could lower the price of eggs if people just committed to not buying them. I know some things they’re absolutely a requirement for, but it’s not impossible to reduce the amount of eggs you need in your life.
Vegans somehow manage to do without them entirely.
Imagine if donvict actually created more vegans. How the magatqons would be so very triggered… 🤣
Trump may have actually lowered the price of eggs – albeit not of products in general.
So, he just imposed tariffs on Canada and Mexico. Canada and Mexico stated that they would impose agricultural tariffs in response – not a surprise, as the US is a major agricultural exporter. The list of countertariffed items is not up, but:
A full list of these goods will be made available for a 21-day public comment period prior to implementation, and will include products such as passenger vehicles and trucks, including electric vehicles, steel and aluminum products, certain fruits and vegetables, aerospace products, beef, pork, dairy, trucks and buses, recreational vehicles, and recreational boats.
They don’t explicitly list eggs, but they do list things adjacent to that, and I can believe that eggs might be on the tariff list.
The US runs a trade surplus in eggs.
https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/eggs/reporter/usa
2022 exports: $549 million, top partner Canada at $77.4 million
2022 imports, $118 million, top partner Canada at $8.19 million.
Trump’s 25% tariffs will tend to reduce the amount of eggs being exported from Canada to the US, which will drive up egg prices in the US.
However, if the Canadian countertariffs – also 25% – have eggs on the list, which we don’t yet know, they will tend to reduce the amount of eggs being exported from the US to Canada, which is about ten times the amount coming the opposite direction. That will tend to drive down egg prices in the US…and one would expect that effect to dominate the effect from reduced egg exports from Canada to the US.
But why is that? Is this one of those tar sands vs sweet crude situations
Over a dozen states have so-called “cage free” laws now, with some states like Colorado only recently having them go into effect as of January 2025.
So then the smart move for Canada would be to not put tariffs on eggs, to keep them flowing into Canada and prices in America high?
Canda’s interest is, I expect, to do whatever provides the most political leverage on Trump relative to the cost to Canada. If high egg prices are a cost-effective way to do that, then sure. My guess is that there are a lot of factors that go into that, though.
I would guess that if Canada is doing targeted tariffs – which they stated that they were – that the best things to hit are in swing states (which Presidents have to worry about the most), in politically-influential industries, on products that are very visible to consumers, and in areas where Canada can deal with higher domestic prices relatively-well. Given that a major Trump concern in his first term was the auto industry, was what got the most significant change in the USMCA changes, maybe that. They did list vehicles as one of their targets.
This is assuming, though, that Trump isn’t just aiming to get in the news for having tariffs for a short period of time, declare that his policy was a success and that fentanyl has been dealt with, and then pull the tariffs. If that’s the case, then I wouldn’t expect this to go on for long.
How can eggs be real if birds aren’t real?
The eggs are laid by the bourgeoisie.
Found Jaden Smith’s Lemmy account.
I’m waiting for the next Lab Leak theory, only this time, it’s because dogs are peeing on the eggs
