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by fransje26 462 days ago
Or quite a flex. If you want to create artificial scarcity to keep your prices high.

Reminds me of the current egg "crisis".

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Egg production fell because of avian flu, which the US has regulatory restrictions limiting the usage of the vaccine in agriculture compared to other developed nations. Its not an intentional crisis.
Egg prices didn’t raise because of a flu.

Egg prices raised because the government asked for the killing of a hundred million of chickens - for fear of spreading bird flu. It may have been the right call, we’ll never know.

Small difference, but important.

Here, CNN is obscuring the fact that the chickens killed were not tested or confirmed to have flu, but some around them might have so they had to go too.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/28/business/chickens-avian-flu/i...

That’s not why they cull flocks once one gets it. They cull the flocks because all of those birds will be dead in days anyways.
> Egg production fell because of avian flu

Well... Yes but no.

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/hatching-a-conspiracy-a-b...