The US is on an egg hunt in Europe to ease prices at home

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.

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

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.

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

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

Russia is hoarding eggs. Largest country of the world. Most eggs. Easy to fight, Mr. 47!

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.

A country doesn't enforce tarriffs on other countries... unless I'm misunderstanding what you mean.

Maybe EU should... Put 200% tariffs on it?

#fartofthedeal


I'd hate it if we were to bail them out.

If people were rational, then they would use a substitute or reduce their consumption. Demand goes down, then price goes down. Egg prices affect baked goods as well, so when people are paying high prices they are shooting themselves in the foot.

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?


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.

It's DARVO 101.

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.

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.

https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-02-26/poultry-culling-hasnt-stopped-h5n1-bird-flu

150 million chickens have been killed. How do they keep up with support if the demand stays the same?

You're also not just paying for lower demand, but they offload the cost of the dead chicken to us.

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.

I can easily just buy fewer eggs and wait for prices to come down. When I saw the toilet paper panic starting to happen I bought a second bidet and pooped at work more often. I just don't get the "pay inflated/scalper prices" mindset. Just don't buy it.

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 don't think that's *all* of it, but you're not wrong. Part of it *is* supply shortage (whether it's truly real or partially artificial), but there's definitely an aspect of "this is toilet paper all over again".

Didn't even say thank you once

Our eggs are too good for the US anyway: not bleached and can be safely eaten raw.

Just don't Europe. Keep your eggs.

"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?"

"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.

It's Easter time - go and fucking find them yourself.

"Freeloaders"

Vance "Denmark hasn't done enough for Greenland"

Also Vance "We need your eggs cause our prices has skyrocketed for some reason."

The US is raising egg prices in my country. Keep your hands away from my eggs!

Don't sell them

Just in time for Easter!

Pathetic...

Eggs are cheap up here in Canada...


This administration is a bunch of eggocentrics

Heaven forbid Asia has any eggs.

I just want to say that while scrolling by the thumbnail for this post, my brain guessed that the article was about chickens playing checkers using their eggs as game pieces.

That's why I stopped to check on what it was about.

Brains are odd.

The eggs are all in Greenland.

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?

People are buying more eggs because of fomo. We don't need more eggs. People just need to chill tf out