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The Trump administration faces a dilemma as skyrocketing egg prices due to bird flu have forced Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to consider emergency imports.

With eggs now averaging $8 per dozen (up from $2.25 last fall), Trump may need to request imports from countries he's recently antagonized—particularly Canada, the largest U.S. egg importer, which Trump has threatened with tariffs and annexation.

Other potential egg suppliers (Netherlands, UK, China) have also faced Trump's recent hostility through tariffs or threats.

Meanwhile, Turkey plans to export 420 million eggs to the U.S., but this represents less than 5% of monthly U.S. production.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

The egg thing is really strange to me. Are people eating a few eggs every single day? I usually buy an 18 count every few weeks at most.

I understand that eggs are used in a significant amount of products that aren't just raw eggs, but the people complaining so loudly are probably not the businesses that use them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

The direct issue is the price on the shelf. People see it and get angry, but it raises the cost of a significant number of products in the store.

The other problem I see is that eggs are $8 a dozen and the shelves are FULL. That's not a shortage driving the price-up scenario. That's farmers doing a money grab.

If your self is mostly empty and their high priced, it's super legit. If there's no shortage week after week and the prices are 2x-3x it's shenanigans.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

I eat one a day and sometimes the family has breakfast together with eggs on the weekends