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What, exactly, should they do? At this point it's pretty much just on the producers to protect their flocks.
One smart thing would be: don't actively disrupt -- and perhaps even accelerate -- clinical trials for H5N1 vaccines. But uh... I don't see that happening.
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Do you mean cage-free hen regulation? This statewide regulation has been in effect since 2022.
Free ranging chickens is the proximate cause of Bird Flu. Chickens get it from wild birds that land near them. States are going to have to repeal those laws and confine chickens in sealed buildings to protect them.
Source? Why is it only American free-range egg farms are being affected, while Canada and Mexico’s are being spared?
I 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 am in NJ and shelves are not empty here but the prices are off the charts. In December I bought eggs in Stop and Shop for $3.19 for a dozen of large brown eggs. Yesterday I bought the same eggs for $9.75 each.
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Who is mocking egg prices? I see people mocking the administration's total lack of effectiveness or even giving-a-fuckness about egg prices. Which is exactly what should be amplified over and over and over, because you're right, this stuff does actually hurt people.
I mean if the avalanche of responses to me doesn't tell you that this was "a thing", there's nothing to say.
Fresh, local eggs have remained around the same price here. While more expensive than eggs from large producers in normal times, they are now often cheaper. This is a great reminder of how important it is to support local farmers and small operations, which increase the resilience of the system as a whole.
I'm 50 and grew up in a medium sized New England mill town. One of the few memories I have of my grandfather is taking a quick trip to the local egg farm to get some eggs. These have all but disappeared from New England.
I hope this bird flu thing is a push for other places to re-establish demand for local eggs and chickens. As someone else pointed out, it’s also a great opportunity to push your local legislators to allow backyard chickens.
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That's true when you're talking about foxes and wolves, but not if you're talking about an airborne flu. Rows of adjacent cages keeping groups of chickens in close proximity with each other with shared air.
Many cage free chickens are also free range chickens, where they can roam outside. That massively increases their chances of picking up the bird flu, as opposed to those they are inside all day. I'm not advocating for one or the other, just explaining. Even cage free chickens will come into close enough proximity where they will all die if just one chicken picks up the flu. It's incredibly virulent.
Are they getting bird flu at a higher frequency?
Eggs store very well when refrigerated and are naturally optimal in terms of physical volume. Buy eggs in bulk and store them in a large mixing bowl or other round container in your refrigerator.
Oblate spheroid packing is anything but optimal! Eggs that perfectly tile 3-space when?
Edit: This is an interesting problem that ChatGPT can't quite hatch. It immediately gets confused and thinks 100 eggs fit in a 5L mixing bowl!
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This is also a great defense against something like bird flu. When you centralize operations a disease can spread through a population like wildfire. When it's a number of smaller, separate operations the impact is lessened.
Actually the inconvenient truth is that it's not. Free range birds are able to interact and spread the disease more easily than the caged birds which can be quarantined. At least in my location all the cage free inventory is totally wiped out.
Edit: I guess also the birds are indoors much more anyway, given the winter. It's 11 F here today, so probably they're huddled up inside :)
Fake/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
Vegetarians don’t eat meat (including fish, although some religious sects have a marketing deal with fishermen to count fish as a vegetable for some reason), do eat animal products.
Vegans don’t eat meat and also don’t eat animal products.
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That's not it at all and it's hard to see how you interpreted it that way. Trump promised to bring down egg prices and grocery prices on day one. It was an obvious lie and now that it has been proven it was a lie it's important to let people know the current president lied to them flagrantly. >"I don't care that working people find things expensive" Literally no one is saying that.
> It was an obvious lie It wasn't obvious to the voters. And at the risk of repeating myself, calling people stupid is not effective. > it's hard to see how you interpreted it that way. Try in good faith. > Literally no one is saying that. "but egg prices!!!". They might as well be.
Again, not at all. It's said when instead of actually working to help the average American this administration is starting trade wars with our allies and taking time out of their day to remove gender identity language from all federal websites. Try in good faith is some advice you might try to follow your self.