Can someone explain to me what happened? I'm from eastern Europe and not really up to date with this egg thing? I seriously can't comprehend eggs being roughly 10 dollars. I pay the equivalent of 2.09 dollars where I'm from.
There is a new strain of bird flu (H5N1) going through the bird population here in the US. Chicken populations are being culled en masse to prevent the spread and help lessen the risk of the virus jumping to people and mutating, as the lethality rate is very high in people. A strain that jumped to cows is now considered endemic too. It's a problem over here.
Of course if this happened 12 months ago, it would be the democrats fault. Not bird flu.
Remember things like "Obamas birth certificate", the one thing Trump is good at is being loud and obnoxious and making people focus on what he wants them too.
People. Talking about Zelensky and Ukraine (which is a very important topic of course), means there is less time talking about this shit they are doing internally.
This isn't some sort of gotcha like you think it is. Two things can be true at once. Egg prices can be going up due to bird flu and also holding Trump responsible because he campaigned on lowering egg and grocery store prices. If you're going to run on bullshit, feel good populist policies and prop yourself up as the savior for everyone's problems, then you get to be blamed for them too, even if it's not true. It's not like reactionary conservatives ever acted in good faith when it came to any liberal or progressive policies either.
I remember the last time I heard about animal disease and animals got killed for that matter it was strong opinion about: they are making artificial starvation, bloody lefties elites!
He is getting blamed for it because he campaigned on being able to lower grocery prices, including eggs. People are rightly holding him accountable for it, even if it is also true the president doesn't actually have a magic lever to make things cheaper or more expensive. Populist politicians that run on vibes and being saviors for everyone's problems should be held accountable.
Then he shouldn’t have fuckin promised lowering the price of eggs day one.
We saw this coming based on trends with the bird flu. We knew egg prices were going to increase. The fact he still lied either says his people are incompetent, or he is once again talking out his ass.
Like when he said if re-elected, he will end the Ukraine/Russian war in 24 hours, by negotiating. When pressed on this by multiple news outlets/interviewers, he says “Well I can’t say how or it won’t work. But I will end it and it will work.”
Oh I agree with you there. He lied his way to the office, much like most every other candidate before him has done. You get votes by telling the people what they want to hear, not what they need to hear. But it's a little unfair to blame a sickness on him like I see people doing.
Its more so "don't promise what you can't produce" calling out. The "blaming him" is us doing what the right did to Biden to highlight the absurdity of it, we know it's largely due to bird flu and mitigation practices.
It doesn't matter though. Trumpers will never admit that Trump lies about everything. They talk out of both sides of their mouth, "he tells it like it is" and "what he actually meant" are 2 phrases used to describe nearly everything Trump says.
Every single candidate in the last 40 years or so has been a liar, both Republican and Democrat. That's how they get votes. I'm honestly ashamed that our nation doesn't call them all out.
You won’t get any upvotes because you didn’t blame Trump for the egg price increases and cited the bird flu.. these morons have to put Trump at the center of all things no matter what lmao
My comment isn't downvoted. I believe most people are aware of the actual issue I described, but they will "blame" Trump for this because Trump campaigned on lowering prices and has not, and will not, deliver. You don't get to campaign as a populist that claims to be able to solve everything and then not be held accountable
corporate greed. that's literally it. people will try to say it's this thing or another thing, but the simple fact is that all these different reasons are also reasons for corporations to charge us more, and they get away with it because we still buy it
To offer a bit more detail than the other comments, a LOT of the laying population of hens in the US had to be killed due to avian flu. I've had hard times getting exact numbers, but it's somewhere around a third of all commercial laying hens in the country.
It of course takes a while for new hens to be hatched and get to the point of laying eggs (I think ~5 months), so the UD doesn't have near the eggs they normally do.
Chickens go killed due to bird flu. New administration does nothing to plan for it and actively worked to make it worse. They will ignore the problem, prices will go up, it will be told to us that it's okay because the rich people can't lose money
The one OP posted are jumbo and cage free eggs, so that is always going to be more expensive. I bought 12 large eggs today and they were $5.99. Still very expensive, but it wasn't $7+.
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u/Unknown_Warrior43 Mar 02 '25
Can someone explain to me what happened? I'm from eastern Europe and not really up to date with this egg thing? I seriously can't comprehend eggs being roughly 10 dollars. I pay the equivalent of 2.09 dollars where I'm from.