[COPENHAGEN] The United States has reached out to Denmark and other European nations asking if they can export eggs as Americans face surging egg prices, the Nordic country’s egg association said on Friday (Mar 14). Read more at The Business Times.

“The United States has reached out to Denmark…”

You know, the country the United States wants to invade and forcefully take land from.

America: The dumbest rocks in the sock drawer.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    192·
    22 hours ago

    Meanwhile, the egg department in my grocery store is absolutely full not a single carton sold.

    Nobody’s paying eight bucks for a carton they can rot.

    Meanwhile I bought a pack of chicken breasts at 267 a pound which is the normal price.

    There’s no shortage of chickens, there’s no shortage of eggs

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      7 hours ago

      They are not the same birds. Layers are older birds then the meat birds. So yes the laying hens could be wiped out well the meat birds are not.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        So, to be clear, you’re claiming that meat birds are not wiped out by the flu and there’s a vast shortage of laying hens, while the markets are absolutely overflowing with eggs?

        that math doesn’t math.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      11 hours ago

      If eggs are $8 a pack (I’m assuming that’s a pack of six), then there is no way that imports would be any better even if they weren’t tariffed. The average price of eggs in the UK comes out at the equivalent of around $1-3 per pack of 6, so unless you can internationally ship them for $4 or less, it’s not going to make any difference.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        4 hours ago

        Every store I’ve been in for months is absolutely full of eggs. No one will buy them. If having too many eggs on the shelf lowers prices we’d already be there.

        This is just him trying to find a way to not have everyone quite so mad at him.

    • keys42@literature.cafeEnglish
      11·
      21 hours ago

      I’m not suggesting that corporations aren’t inflating prices, but your chicken breasts come from birds which are slaughtered pretty young, as opposed to egg layers so there is a much larger window to be infected.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        61·
        19 hours ago

        HPAI A(H5) or A(H7) virus infections can cause disease that affects multiple internal organs with mortality up to 90% to 100% in chickens, often within 48 hours.

        They’re not that young :)

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        51·
        19 hours ago

        If there were any empty shelves, I’d buy it. I should have taken a picture. Nobody is buying any eggs. The price should have ridden that wave, there should be almost no eggs on the shelf, priced at the maximum that pushes product without quite selling out.

        There were thousands of eggs there.

        In covid we ran out of toilet paper, it wasn’t 8x the price on the shelf. Those eggs on the shelves are weeks old now.