Egg prices expected to raise to record highs for all of 2025. WTF
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You gonna start rationing your eggs, or you got the $16 for another dozen
Yinny
Sweet and Sour Patch Mom
They’re $11 for 18 eggs out here
I have two cartons from before the price increase
Feel like I’m sitting on my kids college fund
I have two cartons from before the price increase
Feel like I’m sitting on my kids college fund
I bought an extra carton right as prices really started to climb. Haven’t even touched them yet because I already had a new carton. LolThey’re $11 for 18 eggs out here
I have two cartons from before the price increase
Feel like I’m sitting on my kids college fund
BK The Great
Veteran
Eggs close to $10 in NYC, madness.
I've been checking my local Sam's Club website twice a day for the past week.
Eggs haven't been in stock once.
But the price listed on the website is up $3.
Yall haven't even had any eggs in stock and you're increasing the price.
Eggs haven't been in stock once.
But the price listed on the website is up $3.
Yall haven't even had any eggs in stock and you're increasing the price.
Farmers say bird flu a 'crisis' as egg prices soar
Farmers say they are losing the fight against bird flu as Trump officials propose vaccines for birds.
www.bbc.com
Farmers say bird flu a 'crisis' as egg prices soar
2 days ago
Madeline Halpert
BBC News, New York
Farmer Brian Kreher is relieved none of his birds (pictured here) have gotten sick - but he worries about the avian flu every day
For Brian Kreher, a fourth-generation farmer in the small town of Clarence, New York, the latest outbreak of bird flu has meant many sleepless nights.
He considers his 18-acre farm one of the lucky ones. With extensive safety precautions, he hasn't lost any birds to the virus, which has ravaged poultry farms across the US.
But the outbreak forced him to make tough calls, like deciding whether to accept a new batch of baby chicks from a hatchery near a virus hotspot in Pennsylvania. If he didn't, he would have no chickens to replace those that die or get sick.
"I had no choice," Kreher told the BBC. "It was either accept those baby chicks, or over the next year, we slowly exit farming."
"Egg farmers are in the fight of our lives and we are losing," he said.
Though the avian flu, or H5N1, has circulated among American poultry flocks for years, an outbreak starting in 2022 has wreaked havoc on farms, killing over 156 million birds and sending egg prices skyrocketing. The virus then got a foothold among dairy cows last year, and this month, a different strain - tied to severe infections in humans - was found in the cattle.
Mr Kreher and other farmers have had to implement a host of safety precautions to ensure their birds are safe
Cows, dairy workers, and America's struggle to track bird flu
The worsening outbreak comes as President Donald Trump's new administration makes sweeping cuts to government staffing and research funding that public health experts say threatens the country's ability to respond to bird flu and other potential pandemics.
This week, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) told the BBC it fired several officials who were working on the response to bird flu before trying to hire them back days later. The administration also promised billions in funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health, which scientists say could hamper research that helps them understand the evolution of viruses.
"Right now, the risk to most Americans remains low, but the virus is continuing to surprise us, and so that could change, and could change quickly," said Michaela Simoneau, a global health security fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
"I worry, as all of these funding cuts are in the political conversation, that we don't cut those programs that have been shown to be most essential."
Trump officials said they are working on a new plan to respond to bird flu, one that includes more safety precautions and vaccines while moving away from culling - a process where farmers kill all their birds after one flock becomes infected to prevent the spread of the highly contagious and fatal disease.
When asked for details about the new strategy, the White House did not provide specifics to the BBC, but said Joe Biden's administration had "crushed American agriculture with regulatory uncertainty", inflation and "radical environmental policies".
Red flags as a virus mutates
Scientists have seen a number of warning signs in recent months that the avian flu is adapting to infect humans, said Andrew Pekosz, a molecular biology professor at Johns Hopkins University.
Influenza viruses don't typically grow well in mammals, so the length of time the virus has circulated in dairy cows is concerning because it allows more opportunities to evolve, Mr Pekosz said.
Bird flu infected cattle for the first time ever in the US at the beginning of last year. Since then, there have been nearly 1,000 confirmed cases across 17 states. There also have been 68 confirmed cases among humans, most of whom worked closely with animals.
Then, in February, a new variant of the virus - called D1.1 - was detected in dairy cows and an infected worker in Nevada for the first time. The strain also caused two severe infections in humans in North America, a teenager in hospital in British Columbia and a patient in Louisiana who died from the virus.
The new variant also means there are now at least two instances in which cows have caught the virus from wild birds, and not other dairy herds.
"We're seeing these little red flags, real signs that the virus is making some inroads," Mr Pekosz said.
The virus has upended poultry and dairy farms where workers have had to kill millions of birds to prevent more infections. It's a battle US consumers have felt at the grocery store and a recurring theme during the presidential campaign - in January, the average cost of eggs in the US rose more than 15% from a year ago, to $4.95 a dozen.
Mr Kreher said that despite a host of security measures, including washing vehicles on farms, wearing steel-toed boots and using lasers to deter wild birds, the outbreak continues to worsen across the country.
Bird flu "is on our minds from the moment we get up to the moment we sleep, if sleep comes", he said. "We need new strategies to fight this virus."
A new Trump strategy for farmers in crisis
California poultry farmer Christian Alexandre has seen firsthand the financial and emotional devastation of a bird flu outbreak. In 2022, he had to kill all 45,000 of his chickens when the virus spread at his family farm near the Oregon border.
"It was extremely painful," said Mr Alexandre, president of the American Pastured Poultry Producers Association.
In response to soaring egg prices, Trump officials now say they want to move away from the slaughtering, focusing instead on preventative measures.
Kevin Hassett, director of the National Economic Council, told the BBC's US partner CBS News last week that he is working on a plan with newly confirmed USDA leader Brooke Rollins to combat the virus "with biosecurity and medication".
"Rollins and I have been working with all the best people in government, including academics around the country and around the world, to have a plan ready for the president next week," Hassett said.
Mr Alexandre said he was not sure that vaccinations and other precautions could replace the need to cull flocks - but he said new ideas were desperately needed.
"What farmers and the USDA have been doing has just obviously not worked," he said. "We're in a crisis."
Vaccines for birds against the avian flu already exist in countries around the world, and last week, the USDA granted conditional approval to a new shot developed by Zoetis.
Still, many poultry industry groups oppose vaccinating birds against the virus. This is because most countries don't accept exports of poultry that are vaccinated because of fears that it masks the presence of the virus, said Tom Super of the National Chicken Council.
Public health experts have been critical of the US government's response to bird flu since the virus first spread to dairy cows, arguing Biden officials fell short in their disease surveillance efforts.
But Trump's team has slowed communications about the disease, which also concerns public health experts. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reportedly withheld weekly reports on bird flu and canceled weeks of briefings with lawmakers and state health officials.
"I haven't seen anything from this administration that would say that they're taking this outbreak any more seriously," Mr Pekosz said.
Ms Simoneau sees one encouraging sign from the Trump administration: Gerald Parker, a bird flu expert, veterinarian and former top-ranking health official, was chosen to lead the White House's Pandemic Office.
At the same time, she said, the wide cuts and the decision to withdraw from the World Health Organization under Trump's leadership could hamper efforts to respond to H5N1.
"We're cutting ourselves off from that global information system at a time when we really need all of those signals that we can get," she said.
Ms Simoneau said fatigue and a decrease in trust in public health officials following the Covid pandemic makes for a difficult environment for any administration to respond to a potential health crisis. But, she said, the threat is one Trump officials should take seriously.
"We don't know if this could be an emergency for humans next week, or if it could be several months from now, or if it might not happen at all," Ms Simoneau said. "But taking your eye off the ball isn't really an option."
1/21
@rothschildmd
He said he'd lower food prices on day one. He said he'd end the war in Ukraine before inauguration. He said he'd cut your electric bill and gas prices in half.
None of it happened, none of it will happen. We got taken by a bunco man. Again.
[Quoted tweet]
Jeanine: Don’t you think it’s ridiculous for the Democrats it’s just four weeks and eggs haven’t come down. How ridiculous is that?
Kayleigh: Totally ridiculous
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1893064134578839556/vid/avc1/1280x720/z3IFgiRNCl4wJOht.mp4
2/21
@FedericoMusic3
He (Trump) said he didn’t know Julian Assange or Jeff Epstein.
[Quoted tweet]
Great - let’s see the EPSTEIN NYC MANSION LIST WHERE DERSHOWITZ & TRUMP
partied & got massages. Oh. We can’t see them. Trump had the guest book and security videos destroyed - I can’t believe that MAGA is so into promoting this hypocritical buddy of Epstein - Trump, who wants chuckled when he said “yeh, Jeff likes girls. He likes them on the young side …” are you MAGA serious or just plain STUPID?
The Pedo island flight log is a distraction from all the goings on at the NYC MANSION. Of course Trump isn’t on the fight logs Blondi will make a fuss about. And dopey MAGAs will say that “Trump blocked him from partying at mar a lago”. Yeh sure he did. BUT ONLY AFTER HE DISCOVERED EPSTEIN WAS BEING ACTIVELY INVESTIGATED BY THE FBI FIELD OFFICE IN PALM BEACH FL. Trump only banned his perv party buddy because Jeff got caught. Not out of any sense of moral decency. Trump jokingly said repeatedly before FBI Epstein investigation opened up in 2011 that he knew his friend Epstein was having whatever with girls “a little on the young side” ha ha ha. That’s your il-LUST-TREOUS president MAGA. You can have the old fornicator.
3/21
@TinFoilHatDan
Geez if all those things happen but delayed by 6 months I would be so disappointed
4/21
@TayoMurph
5/21
@fukinbizness
Now it’s ridiculous to be questioning white supremacy!
6/21
@LisaBarth20
I did not get taken . I knew.
7/21
@How_I_See_It_2
8/21
@TremblantLodgin
Unfortunate part is you were easily taken in fact you marched yourself to the slaughter
9/21
@YungNeil4
FAFO
10/21
@Newsforachange
Funny story - in the 1860s, there was a blowhard congressman from western North Carolina, Buncombe County (Asheville). When he would get up & talk, other members would say "Here comes another load of Buncombe".
Load of buncombe>load of bunk>bunco man>debunk.
11/21
@Neale10Rg
12/21
@DonnaGallipeau
You did,maybe.
13/21
@MetsYeet
It’s this game they play where *you* are the dishonest one for taking him at his word when he says something. If you were honest, like Judge Jeanine and the people on The Five, you would know he doesn’t mean any of the stuff he says. So he’s not a liar, you are—get it?
14/21
@Itsmyright88
What about no taxes on tips
No taxes on overtime
Didn’t see those in the new budget only more tax breaks for the wealthy
15/21
@CraigBeam1
Trump's promises (not a complete list)
16/21
@Barbara0699
Market crashes, inflation increasing from his policies
17/21
@Marigny2331
18/21
@giannis_mvp
The national average for gas was $2.85 on election day. I'll do Trump a favor and round the penny up, but he still owes me $1.43 gas
19/21
@PennySerenade66
20/21
@nmewrath
He said he would only be a dictator for ONE day
21/21
@Randall_65
MAGAts will be on their death bed still thinking any day now he'll lower the price of eggs!
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@rothschildmd
He said he'd lower food prices on day one. He said he'd end the war in Ukraine before inauguration. He said he'd cut your electric bill and gas prices in half.
None of it happened, none of it will happen. We got taken by a bunco man. Again.
[Quoted tweet]
Jeanine: Don’t you think it’s ridiculous for the Democrats it’s just four weeks and eggs haven’t come down. How ridiculous is that?
Kayleigh: Totally ridiculous
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1893064134578839556/vid/avc1/1280x720/z3IFgiRNCl4wJOht.mp4
2/21
@FedericoMusic3
He (Trump) said he didn’t know Julian Assange or Jeff Epstein.
[Quoted tweet]
Great - let’s see the EPSTEIN NYC MANSION LIST WHERE DERSHOWITZ & TRUMP
partied & got massages. Oh. We can’t see them. Trump had the guest book and security videos destroyed - I can’t believe that MAGA is so into promoting this hypocritical buddy of Epstein - Trump, who wants chuckled when he said “yeh, Jeff likes girls. He likes them on the young side …” are you MAGA serious or just plain STUPID?
The Pedo island flight log is a distraction from all the goings on at the NYC MANSION. Of course Trump isn’t on the fight logs Blondi will make a fuss about. And dopey MAGAs will say that “Trump blocked him from partying at mar a lago”. Yeh sure he did. BUT ONLY AFTER HE DISCOVERED EPSTEIN WAS BEING ACTIVELY INVESTIGATED BY THE FBI FIELD OFFICE IN PALM BEACH FL. Trump only banned his perv party buddy because Jeff got caught. Not out of any sense of moral decency. Trump jokingly said repeatedly before FBI Epstein investigation opened up in 2011 that he knew his friend Epstein was having whatever with girls “a little on the young side” ha ha ha. That’s your il-LUST-TREOUS president MAGA. You can have the old fornicator.
3/21
@TinFoilHatDan
Geez if all those things happen but delayed by 6 months I would be so disappointed
4/21
@TayoMurph
5/21
@fukinbizness
Now it’s ridiculous to be questioning white supremacy!
6/21
@LisaBarth20
I did not get taken . I knew.
7/21
@How_I_See_It_2
8/21
@TremblantLodgin
Unfortunate part is you were easily taken in fact you marched yourself to the slaughter
9/21
@YungNeil4
FAFO
10/21
@Newsforachange
Funny story - in the 1860s, there was a blowhard congressman from western North Carolina, Buncombe County (Asheville). When he would get up & talk, other members would say "Here comes another load of Buncombe".
Load of buncombe>load of bunk>bunco man>debunk.
11/21
@Neale10Rg
12/21
@DonnaGallipeau
You did,maybe.
13/21
@MetsYeet
It’s this game they play where *you* are the dishonest one for taking him at his word when he says something. If you were honest, like Judge Jeanine and the people on The Five, you would know he doesn’t mean any of the stuff he says. So he’s not a liar, you are—get it?
14/21
@Itsmyright88
What about no taxes on tips
No taxes on overtime
Didn’t see those in the new budget only more tax breaks for the wealthy
15/21
@CraigBeam1
Trump's promises (not a complete list)
16/21
@Barbara0699
Market crashes, inflation increasing from his policies
17/21
@Marigny2331
18/21
@giannis_mvp
The national average for gas was $2.85 on election day. I'll do Trump a favor and round the penny up, but he still owes me $1.43 gas
19/21
@PennySerenade66
20/21
@nmewrath
He said he would only be a dictator for ONE day
21/21
@Randall_65
MAGAts will be on their death bed still thinking any day now he'll lower the price of eggs!
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I just think it's sad we live in a country where people are stretched so thin financially this is even an issue. I mean we're talking about a carton of eggs here. Big deal if it's $10 the upper class shouldn't be hording all the wealth to the point where the middle and lower class feel this as a pain point.
dora_da_destroyer
Master Baker
Y’all better start eating yogurt for your morning protein. You can substitute egg for baking as well 
1/11
@Acyn
Jeffries: In fact, costs aren't going down, costs are going up. Grocery prices are going up, inflation is going up. Republicans are crashing the economy in real-time.
2/11
@ConservBlue2020
Trump is destroying the economy to own the libs.
3/11
@Patriot_45_
I hope Dollar Tree Obama is feeling alright. He forgot the eggs
4/11
@Jill3989
Democrats caused the inflation which Republicans are fighting to control
5/11
@DjOmegaMVP
MAGA VOTED FOR THAT!
6/11
@andrewsrodgers6
That was their plan... They want the dollar to tank so they can make money on foreign currency investments they have been making for 10 years.
7/11
@sophieellielab
The people who need to hear this are not going to hear any of it. There needs to be a coordinated ad campaign running on FOX. You don't fight fire with a teaspoon of water, you set backfires to run to the fire and deprive it of fuel.
8/11
@EpicPeasant
Maybe he could donate his AIPAC funding to help.
9/11
@MightyFetta
Trumpflation is here!!
10/11
@AuroraO83
And just wait until the tariffs start next week. It will only get worse.
11/11
@nehpets1985
Lmao!!! Libtards are hilarious. It’s like an adult version of “kids say the darnedest things”
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@Acyn
Jeffries: In fact, costs aren't going down, costs are going up. Grocery prices are going up, inflation is going up. Republicans are crashing the economy in real-time.
2/11
@ConservBlue2020
Trump is destroying the economy to own the libs.
3/11
@Patriot_45_
I hope Dollar Tree Obama is feeling alright. He forgot the eggs
4/11
@Jill3989
Democrats caused the inflation which Republicans are fighting to control
5/11
@DjOmegaMVP
MAGA VOTED FOR THAT!
6/11
@andrewsrodgers6
That was their plan... They want the dollar to tank so they can make money on foreign currency investments they have been making for 10 years.
7/11
@sophieellielab
The people who need to hear this are not going to hear any of it. There needs to be a coordinated ad campaign running on FOX. You don't fight fire with a teaspoon of water, you set backfires to run to the fire and deprive it of fuel.
8/11
@EpicPeasant
Maybe he could donate his AIPAC funding to help.
9/11
@MightyFetta
Trumpflation is here!!
10/11
@AuroraO83
And just wait until the tariffs start next week. It will only get worse.
11/11
@nehpets1985
Lmao!!! Libtards are hilarious. It’s like an adult version of “kids say the darnedest things”
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after clamoring that Trump can reverse inflation Day 1, they'll talk falsely scholar tones to explain that 4 years are not enough to change the economics
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Tribal Outkast
Veteran
I don’t miss eggs at allY’all better start eating yogurt for your morning protein. You can substitute egg for baking as well
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