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USA asks Sweden for help in the egg crisis
- Gys 2y agoOnly if you give a part of Florida in return
- throwaway784989 2y agoThey can take all of Florida.
- Akasazh 2y agoWho wants part of a drug pushing retirement state. Give us California!
- manojlds 2y agoNo tariffs?
- hombre_fatal 2y agoThe beauty of tariffs is that it creates a bottleneck that lets you dole out favors to certain companies and industries.
- josefritzishere 2y agoThe beauty of tariffs is that it creates a bottleneck that leaves other countries disinclined to do you any favors. Everything becomes transactional and exploitive.
- jacknews 2y ago"In the USA, the egg shortage is primarily due to bird flu" nope I think this is fake news the current shortage is not actually that great, just look at the numbers and historically any shortage would have been quickly relieved by farmers increasing their capacity that's where the shortage lies the big producers deliberately constricting supply by not expanding capacity, and wielding market power to prevent others doing so I believe there is a pending trade investigation on this point, so any 'news' about eggs should probably be taken with a pinch of salt (and pepper).
- drivingmenuts 2y agoI suspect any investigation will get shut down in a hot second - either by political donations to certain key individuals or by lack of capacity to do any investigations. Or both. While the price of eggs was a campaign point for some politicians, the current crisis puts egg on their face which can only be washed away with greenbacks.
- barbazoo 2y ago> by not expanding capacity, and wielding market power to prevent others doing so Why would they not expand capacity and how would they prevent others from doing so?
- theGeatZhopa 2y agonot expanding capacity: because less eggs == expensier eggs == more money. If everyone wants a restricted good, then the prices goes up and the one willing to pay more gets the good. And eggs are needed in a lot of areas starting with mayonaise for the quarter pounder and ending with the breakfast in rural restaurants known from the movies :) wielding their market power to prevent others from: while its not meant, that they prevent the small guy's small company or your neighbours from keeping chicken from laying eggs, its an economical question. If you're a big player, one possible way is to buy amounts of chicken food for even lower prices making it expensier for small quantity buyers to produce eggs. The eggs from competition are not competative in their price, so big mayonaise producers won't buy. ... And so on.. the bigger, the cheaper, the less competition is possible for the small ones.
- jacknews 2y agowell explained, and there's also the issue of chicks - farmers don't generally hatch their own eggs but buy chicks, and it's easy the big companies to manipulate that supply chain, indeed I believe there are ownership and licensing deals in place that favor the big producers.
- theGeatZhopa 2y ago
- kasperni 2y agoThey are asking Denmark as well [1]… All your eggs and Greenland are belong to us! [1] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/trump-egg-prices-denmark-greenland https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/14/trump-egg-pr...
- thrill 2y agoAre they the only people still talking to us?
- metaphor 2y ago> In the USA, the egg shortage is primarily due to bird flu, which led to the culling of over 40 million birds last year. So that's, what, roughly 10-15% of egg-laying birds across the country? It takes less than 6 months for a chick to mature to egg-laying hen. This source[1] asserts per-capita egg consumption was already realizing proportional decline for years since 2020 peak. The real game[2] being played has a distinct smell. [1] https://unitedegg.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/UEP_WebsiteGraphics_2023_WebPerCapitaConsumption.png https://unitedegg.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/UEP_Website... [2] https://doi.org/10.7275/cbv0-gv07 https://doi.org/10.7275/cbv0-gv07
- bryanlarsen 2y ago18 weeks is the typical age for the first egg, although it does take a little longer before they're laying daily. The market should be responding quickly to shortages. That it isn't does smell.
- nth_degree 2y agoPart 1: Hatching a Conspiracy (https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/hatching-a-conspiracy-a-big-investigation https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/hatching-a-conspiracy-a-b...) Part 2: How Chicken Genetics Barons Created the Egg Crisis (https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/fowl-play-how-chicken-genetics-barons https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/fowl-play-how-chicken-gen...) Part 3 hasn't been released yet, but it's a good read so far.