USA asks Sweden for help in the egg crisis
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·March 14, 2025metaphor
bryanlarsen
18 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.
kasperni
They 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-pr...
nth_degree
Part 1: Hatching a Conspiracy (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-gen...)
Part 3 hasn't been released yet, but it's a good read so far.
thrill
Are they the only people still talking to us?
manojlds
No tariffs?
hombre_fatal
The beauty of tariffs is that it creates a bottleneck that lets you dole out favors to certain companies and industries.
josefritzishere
The 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
"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
I 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.
> 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_Website...
[2] https://doi.org/10.7275/cbv0-gv07