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fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

US to import eggs from Turkey and South Korea to ease prices

www.bbc.com

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US to import eggs from Turkey and South Korea to ease prices

www.bbc.com

fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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A bird flu epidemic has caused egg prices to soar, and projections show they could rise by 41 percent this year.
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  • fox2263@lemmy.world
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    Ah yes. Transporting eggs via cargo container from the other side of the planet.

    I’m sure this added logistics cost won’t hamper anything.

  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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    While banning them from Canada and Mexico. Makes sense. Checks out.

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    But… we don’t have an egg shortage. We have an egg price surplus. More eggs aren’t going to help. We need to stop appeasing the shareholders over the consumers.

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      I thought it all started with the bird flu…? Meaning there is a shortage of flu free eggs.

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        Lot of the price hike is just greedy dickheads blaming avian flu while they stuff their pockets.

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        If we could somehow vaccinate chickens, I wonder what the anti vaxxers would say. On the one hand they would be eating “potentially mutated and unsafe eggs” on the other hand they would be able to afford eggs.

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          There actually are vaccines for chickens that protects against Bird flu with multiple in development. However they are nog mass produced yet and currently only small trials are staking place where they vaccinate all or part of the chickens on a single farm. Information about two of the vaccines van be found at https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/human-regulatory-overview/public-health-threats/avian-influenza-bird-flu

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    Why not just ask us, the friendly Canadian neighbours for help?

    All Trump needs to do is say thank you!

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    Well, I’ve never had turkey eggs before, but there’s a first time for everything…

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      They’re YUGE

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        The YUGELYEST

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    So they first begged the Danish for eggs. Then they came to beg for meine Deutschen Eier. Now they begged even more. I don’t even know how to make fun of this.

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    I don’t get it why there is an egg crisis. If they are too expensive, don’t eat eggs. Are eggs like insulin for some people?

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      Eggs used to be one of the cheaper food items you could buy here so a lot of poorer people relied on them

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    Mexico is a lot closer.

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    can I offer you an egg in this trying time?

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      Frank is the golden goose.

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    They’ll arrive so fresh they’ll have legs

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    But turkey eggs have a completely different flavor…

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      Nothing better than a Korean laid egg tho

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    I hope countries start putting big export tarrifs on eggs to “protect domestic support” 400% should be a starting point.

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