The U.S. is making more seizures of illegal eggs than fentanyl at its Canadian and Mexican borders
The U.S. is making more seizures of illegal eggs than fentanyl at its Canadian and Mexican borders
Since October, U.S. customs officers have made 3,768 seizures of bird and poultry-related products, including eggs, compared to 352 fentanyl seizures.
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Why does the US have high egg prices, but Canada and Mexico do not?
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Actual answer?
Canadian egg farms have tens of thousands of chickens on average, and there's a lot of separate farms.
US egg farms have millions, and there are fewer total farms.
If a single bird gets infected with avian flu the whole flock needs to be culled. Bigger flocks are both more likely to catch it, and more birds affected when it happens.
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There is also a massive chicken cartel in the US which dictates the laws so small farmers cannot abide by all the nitpicking rules.
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Inversely, most provinces have supply management of dairy and poultry products to insure a stable price for consumers and protect farmers from inevitable variable conditions.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_and_poultry_supply_management_in_Canada
Just because I wanted to read more about it
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Sounds like time to nationalize
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Did you know that committing atrocity against chickens is in fact entirely optional? You can live a longer, healthier, wealthier life by simply not abusing animals.
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...noted
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Capitalism turning people to veganism like it did tiny homes
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most people are not abusing animals.
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But also the cartel thing.
And the gov is apparently "protecting" us from solving this ourselves with black market eggs. Bootleggs?
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As I understand, this is also why bird flu took longer to spread on the west coast
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I heard that we actually vaccinate our livestock too while apparently doing so is illegal in the US?
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The eggs are woke
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Damn transgenic eggs
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*yolk
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Didn't you get the memo? Woke is out, DEI is in
Those eggs were DEI hires!!
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Given that egg is actually a term used in some suitable contexts, it probably will be a dangerous word soon.
First they came for Enola Gay...
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First they came for Enola Gay...
That is brilliant. The caveat is that anyone that understands the reference, significance, and warning probably is already on the right side. It will go right over the heads of the ones that are the problem.
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The Enola Gay was on the front page of BBC yesterday.
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You ever wondered how 90%* of chickens in the US are female? Almost half of them are transgender!
*not the real number, it's (un?)surprisingly hard to find.
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Well it's because male chicks are all wholesale slaughtered in big grinders.
Fun fact- technology exists to sex the eggs rather than the chicks but it's a little more expensive so we have baby chicken grinders instead.
Some countries have mandated this, but they are a minority:
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They think they can just hatch and get free meals!
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Because there is a big bird flu in USA and it is being mismanaged by a government of idiots who rather insult every one.
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No, that is not the issue anymore and has not been for a while. Last time, to stop this, the government had to threaten with anti cartel actions - the prices were suddenly down again.
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What do the cartels have to do with eggs?
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You might be thinking drug cartel when you see the word cartel. A cartel is a group of companies in the same business colluding for reasons like to remove safety regulations or keep prices high. There is a worldwide diamond cartel that keeps those prices up and spreads bullshit about how your fiance won't be happy without an expensive, natural diamond. Yes, there is even a cartel for eggs. They are loving bird flu because they can blame it for high prices.
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Same thing as the willi Wonka prequel.
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There is not enough competition.
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I'd like some sauce on this.
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I imagine the US standard of shoving antibiotics into the chickens instead of vaccinating them probably doesn't help
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capitalism.
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You'ld be surprised how scarce something like eggs can get in a state-run economy, too...
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Or sugar. Or gasoline. Or butter. Or meat. Or passports.
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