Eggs, they are in many of the everyday things we eat. They aren’t just two over easy for breakfast, they are a commodity, and high egg prices drive up the cost for everything egg related. Mayonnaise, pasta, breads, breaded and battered foods, cakes (including pancakes) and hundreds more food items have egg in them.
There are also industrial NON food uses for eggs such as the production of vaccines (irony), cosmetics, paints, and adhesives. Egg waste products like shells are processed into calcium carbonate and incorporated into fertilizers that improve soil.
Just like high oil prices drive up the cost of everything, high egg prices are bad for the economy too. It is more than just a breakfast table issue.
So what EGGzactly is causing prices to soar? It appears that the egg industry is doing a bit of price fixing. In spite of low inventory, egg hatcheries are earning record profits, all at the EGGspense of the American consumer.
DOJ Launches Antitrust Investigation Over High Egg Prices
The Department of Justice has launched an anti-trust investigation into escalating egg prices, including whether large producers have conspired to raise prices or hold back supply.
Basic supply and demand principles apply here in a very big way. Fewer egg-laying hens means fewer eggs produced. Fewer eggs produced means egg prices go higher, which is exactly what’s happening.
134M poultry and counting: Interactive charts show hardest-hit counties in bird flu crisis
Georgia, the nation’s leading chicken producer, has suspended all poultry sales after detecting its first case of bird flu in a commercial flock. This development adds to the list of states impacted by the ongoing bird flu crisis, including Iowa, California and Ohio.
The latest data from the CDC and USDA show the continued devastating effects of bird flu outbreaks across the United States – with Iowa, the nation’s leading egg producer, suffering substantial losses.
Isn’t it funny that there is no shortage of chickens, yet there is a shortage of eggs? If the bird flu is sickening egg laying chickens, why isn’t is affecting poultry chickens?
egg lay’n hens arent the same as poultry chickens. besides, they were all destroyed. If one or two birds tested positive, they just destroyed all the birds. probably dog food now.
After researching what they do with culled birds… They are NOT put into the human food supply, some infected birds have found their way into raw animal feed like dog and cat food resulting in the sickening and occasional death, mostly of cats.
Most of the destroyed birds are incinerated, or composted in specially designed pits and furrows. Some of the birds are rendered to extract fat for non food industrial use, and then composted or incinerated.
So the short answer is, euthanized birds are not ending up on your bbq grill.
It is unlikely that even healthy egg laying hens would end up in the human food supply as they are not the same as meat chickens.
1. Are there any differences between egg-laying chickens and chickens raised for meat?
Yes, there are differences. Egg-laying chickens, also known as laying hens, are typically a different breed from chickens raised for meat. Laying hens are smaller in size and have less meat on them compared to meat chickens. Can you eat egg laying chickens? - Chef's Resource
Still, the question remains… Why are only egg laying hens being culled. Over 1.2 million laying hens have been destroyed leading to an egg shortage. Why is bird flu only affecting the egg supply? Why is there no scarcity of meat chickens?
The question that needs to be answered… why did the Biden administration order the killing of over 100 million egg laying hens, but not the others in November and December???
Maybe follow the money…
A Million Culled Chickens Show Pitfalls of Biden’s Meatpacking Revamp
