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.
Eggs are cheap up here in Canada…
It’s Easter time - go and fucking find them yourself.
Vance “Denmark hasn’t done enough for Greenland”
Also Vance “We need your eggs cause our prices has skyrocketed for some reason.”
Don’t sell them
Pathetic…
Egg prices aren’t even being driven by a shortage. Every local market near me has thousands of eggs that are about to expire. Which means they have sat there long enough to expire, because nobody is buying them. People are seeing the increased egg prices, and simply eating fewer eggs.
Studies have found that the recent issues should only affect egg prices by ~10-15%. But instead, we have seen increases as high as 200-500%. The real issue is greedflation; Egg producers did the math on supply and demand, and realized selling less eggs could be more profitable. Imagine they can sell 5 egg cartons at $2 each, or 2 cartons at $6 each. The latter nets them more profit and they don’t have to produce+package+ship as many eggs, which lowers their overhead costs.
The only thing foreign eggs would solve is that it would introduce competition. But even then, why would other countries’ egg producers have any incentive to compete on price? They can simply match existing prices, blame the cost on higher international shipping, and make more profit too.
Your experience is interesting, because where I am it absolutely is a shortage. Most stores are putting a limit of 1 dozen eggs per customer because it was getting so bad. The only place where I can reliably find eggs is the farmer’s market and the organic store.
Just don’t Europe. Keep your eggs.
Our eggs are too good for the US anyway: not bleached and can be safely eaten raw.
This administration is a bunch of eggocentrics
“USA first and only! Tarrifs for you, you and you! We hate employees. Healthcare is a benefit for the rich! You owe us money because we say so! We’ll take greenland one way or another. Nazi salutes in the presidential office are cool! Ukraine needs to be thankful that they are allowed to give us all their natural resources!”
Moments later.
“Hey, btw, would you mind giving us some eggs please? What? Why not?”
Maybe EU should… Put 200% tariffs on it?
#fartofthedeal
A country doesn’t enforce tarriffs on other countries… unless I’m misunderstanding what you mean.
“Freeloaders”
I’d vote to ship as many eggs as the market can bear. With the proviso that each egg comes painted with the face of Donald Trump and an “information” pamphlet…
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?
Bird flu. millions of chickens are having to be euthanized. entire farms.
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.
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.
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
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.
People are buying more eggs because of fomo. We don’t need more eggs. People just need to chill tf out
No they don’t.
Not when their current president campaigned loudly about how high egg prices were all Joe Biden’s fault, and that when elected, Trump would bring down prices immediately.
Now prices are far higher, coupled with shortages, with no Imediate anything.
People need to do the opposite of chill tf out.
I meant stop buying more eggs than they were before. People are panic buying eggs. Just stop paying high prices for everything, that’s why prices are high.
You can absolutely cling to DARVO-style explanations for Trump’s fuckups if you want. You can even cut back on eggs a bit, and do your part.
It’s econ 101. Demand should go down if prices go up, but people are fucking dumb and just accept higher prices. I’m seeing signs at the grocery store that say “limit 3 cartons.” People are absolutely panic buying more eggs than they need. Just like ps5s there was a “shortage” due to scalping, but people were buying them from scalpers because fomo. The same people elected DT, you reap what you sow.
It’s DARVO 101.
I bet you think the president personally calls every gas station to set the prices. There’s literally nothing he can do about egg prices, he lied if you can actually beleive it. Consumers are responsible for the prices they pay. If the store is gouging you and you still buy it, then you have no right to complain.
He sure boasted like he would.
Also didn’t mind stating that the high prices (at the time) were caused by Joe Biden.
What ya got next, DARVO Vader?
