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“The amount we could export would not solve their egg shortage,” says the head of the Finnish Poultry Association.
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US authorities have turned to Europe for help
Good luck with that.
Europe should just send Kinder Eggs, with the toys, just to fuck with them.
European Diplomats should send real eggs, personally and ballistically, direct to the White House. I think that would send the proper message.
Now now let’s not waste food.
Be an ass on the international scene. Show you are untrustworthy and do everything you can to not pay a bill. Just be generally unreliable as a trade partner.
Get turned down when you ask internationally for help.
shocked Pikachu
The most infuriating thing is that Trump gets to take a victory lap no matter what.
If a country gives us eggs, he gets to pretend to be a hero by saying he strong armed them into “surrendering.” Then he’ll say they’re inferior eggs and encourage his cult not to buy them anyway.
If they a country doesn’t, he gets to call them evil and will use that as justification for slapping massive tariffs on them. Then he’ll say American eggs are the best and that he always supported American farmers. He’ll probably say something like “they tried to smuggle their eggs into our market but I stopped them!”
The most frustrating part is that my grocery store has so many eggs. The shelves aren’t empty. In fact, there are cartons on the shelves which are weeks old at this point. And that means supply is outpacing demand at the current prices. People are seeing the increased prices, and simply using less eggs. Which means prices could feasibly drop while we continue to have eggs on the shelves.
This price increase is just more greedflation. Studies have shown that the bird flu issue should have only increased the price by 12-15%, but here we are with increases in the high triple digits. Why sell ten cartons of eggs at $1 each, when you could simply sell two cartons at $6 each and make more money than if you had sold ten cartons?
Fucking A so true. Just this morning I watched a employee empty a shelf of eggs and put them a grocery basket. It was a shit ton of eggs that gone bad.
The US doesnt have a real egg shortage btw. There is also no impact that is larger than in previous years from the bird flu. The egg monopolists are just making/buying fewer egg laying hens and producing fewer eggs to drive the prices and profit margins up.
This entire “egg shortage” could be solved in a matter of weeks if Trump ordered the companies to do so.
For the doubters, just open your eyes and read. (Obligatory fuck NYT)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/business/us-egg-prices-investigation.html
Yup. Egg production is down ~2% from last year. Prices have doubled.
Egg monopolists are just saying “Fuck you, Pay me” and price gouging. Most of this country’s problems stem from not breaking up big business.
Or eggs do cost that much to produce in the US. Pinning this problem on Big Egg seems like the easiest solution, but I have an inkling this stuff goes deeper.
