Nemeski@lemm.ee to United States | News & Politics@midwest.social · 2 days agoU.S. egg industry sees record chicken deaths from bird flu outbreakwww.cbsnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square19fedilinkarrow-up1105arrow-down10
arrow-up1105arrow-down1external-linkU.S. egg industry sees record chicken deaths from bird flu outbreakwww.cbsnews.comNemeski@lemm.ee to United States | News & Politics@midwest.social · 2 days agomessage-square19fedilink
minus-squaretree_frog@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29arrow-down1·2 days agoWe call it factory farming, which is different than ranching. You pack thousands of chickens into a giant warehouse together. Vaccines don’t do much in an environment like that. And the federal government is being gutted by Nazis currently so that doesn’t help.
minus-squareLazylazycat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·2 days agoYeah that’s bleak, although we do have factory farms here too. Perhaps it’s just the scale of it in the US.
minus-squareTikiporch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 days agoI get that, but eggs aren’t a commodity yet non factory farmed egg prices are also soaring. This. Is. Greed.
minus-squaretree_frog@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-249 minutes agoI’ve been paying the same price for local free-range eggs for four years. But yes, the egg cartels and large grocery stores are fixing the prices too. Better to not buy from folks like that rather than supporting their oligopoly.
minus-squareLemmyoutofhere@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoMore like millions of birds.
We call it factory farming, which is different than ranching. You pack thousands of chickens into a giant warehouse together.
Vaccines don’t do much in an environment like that. And the federal government is being gutted by Nazis currently so that doesn’t help.
Yeah that’s bleak, although we do have factory farms here too. Perhaps it’s just the scale of it in the US.
I get that, but eggs aren’t a commodity yet non factory farmed egg prices are also soaring.
This. Is. Greed.
I’ve been paying the same price for local free-range eggs for four years.
But yes, the egg cartels and large grocery stores are fixing the prices too. Better to not buy from folks like that rather than supporting their oligopoly.
More like millions of birds.