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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Bird flu. millions of chickens are having to be euthanized. entire farms.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/farmers-must-kill-42m-chickens-bird-flu-hits-iowa-egg-farm-rcna154424

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