Yeah, bird flu is really bad.
What are the precautions the USA government is taking? Also how much of the local market is consumed by USA?
Bluntly: None.
Eggs US – Price – Chart
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#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eggs store pretty poorly in the fridge because liquids transpire through the shell. Within a month your egg will be 20% air.
This is disturbing and not what I found with eggs at all - Are eggs somehow different in the US compared to the rest of the world?
Yep.
In the U.S. the eggs are all machine washed which removes a natural protective outer coating (as well as dirt).
This means that they don't store as well or as long, and really should be refrigerated. It _might_ reduce salmonella.
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#133Michigan here, this is has been made worse by a new law requiring all eggs to be 'cage-free'. I think I paid $9 for the cheap store-brand eggs (18) last week. And that is, if they even have any eggs at the store. I've been to Wal-mart and Kroger when the entire section is empty with a sign saying there are egg supply issues. It's also winter so my 'chicken farmer friends' are low on eggs, when it's cold the chickens…
How does cage free make this worse? The supply shortages are coming from avian flu in every report I have heard.
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#134What's going on with eggs in the US? The whole world had high inflation after Covid, so that's not US-specific, but eggs tripling in price? That is extreme. I don't think my (Dutch, free-range organic) eggs went up more than 25%.
Meanwhile, chicken prices haven't increased at KFC, Hooters, or Popeyes.
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#135Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eggs store pretty poorly in the fridge because liquids transpire through the shell. Within a month your egg will be 20% air.
This is disturbing and not what I found with eggs at all - Are eggs somehow different in the US compared to the rest of the world?
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#136Fake/Vegetarian eggs are priced the same here, so I made the switch and am only using fake eggs now for most of my cooking.
arent eggs already vegetarian
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#137I live in CA and saw a massive jump in prices when the state ordered chickens to be euthanized due to bird flu. It was also the first time I saw grocery store shelves completely empty of eggs for days at a time. Prices for organic eggs have somewhat returned to pre-bird flu levels but the regular sales and discounts have stopped. Non-organic eggs are still significantly higher.
I'm in socal and have been buying vital farms eggs. The price has been near constant.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
Eggs store pretty poorly in the fridge because liquids transpire through the shell. Within a month your egg will be 20% air.
This is disturbing and not what I found with eggs at all - Are eggs somehow different in the US compared to the rest of the world?
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Musk and Trump have both publicly said that people will need to accept higher prices.
Please stop the precedent of saying both their names in the same breath
They seem to be joined at the hip now, what with Elon being granted carte blanche. If it helps, I prefer "fat man and little boy".
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#140Earlier quoted context omitted.
To cite a close-to-home example, chicken farms in Canada typically have about 25,000 chickens, whereas ones in the U.S. often have millions. So an infection that requires the entire flock to be slaughtered has a much bigger effect on the supply of eggs south of the border.
That makes a lot of sense, because I lookup up how we handle it in Denmark and it's the same, destroy the entire flock if a farm is infected. It's just it's not millions, it's 6000, 40.000, 20.000 chickens per farm, not a million. Weird that the size of the farms aren't being regulated if you know from other countries that it makes containment easier.
But the population is about 57x smaller. So 17.5k chickens would be equivalent in terms of impact.