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The U.S. government is on a global egg hunt, seeking exports from countries in Europe and elsewhere to ease a severe shortage that has caused egg prices at grocery stores to hit record highs.
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“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?”
Maybe EU should… Put 200% tariffs on it?
#fartofthedeal
A country doesn’t enforce tarriffs on other countries… unless I’m misunderstanding what you mean.
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.
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.
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.
Just don’t Europe. Keep your eggs.
Our eggs are too good for the US anyway: not bleached and can be safely eaten raw.
“Pathetic.”
Didn’t even say thank you once
It’s Easter time - go and fucking find them yourself.
“Freeloaders”
I’d hate it if we were to bail them out.
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!
Just in time for Easter!
Don’t sell them
Pathetic…
Eggs are cheap up here in Canada…
This administration is a bunch of eggocentrics
Heaven forbid Asia has any eggs.
