Why is it always eggs that are the problem?
There was a cartoon back during the pandemic that showed a guy proposing to a woman with a dozen eggs.
Chickens aren’t that hard to raise unless there’s a bad case of bird flu.
I recommend the book “City of Thieves”. It is a 2008 historical fiction novel by David Benioff. It is, in part, a coming of age story set in the World War II siege of Leningrad. It follows the adventures of two youths as they desperately search for a dozen eggs at the behest of a Soviet NKVD officer for a birthday gift, a task that takes them far behind enemy lines.
They eat the eggs before they become chickens ,LOL
eggs are up 50 cents a dozen here since last week at walmart. they actually cost more here than in Both Ukraine and Russia, which Both countries have a eggflation problem right now......We should ship a few hundred billion to Ukraine, so they can sell them to Russia on the black market and lower the cost for both countries simultaneously.
“Why is it always eggs that are the problem?”
Because eggs are inexpensive protein and they’re integral to most baked goods. Interruptions to egg production are also indicative of failures in the supply chain.
I raise chickens and sell eggs. The first supply chain issue for me is going to be composite feed. That’s a big one for me and an even bigger concern for factory-level egg production. No feed means no eggs.
And it’s not like you can just put out scratch for the chickens. There’s feed additives and feed ferments that go into a good composite formula for egg layers.
I have no idea what component of feed is missing in Russia because they make plenty of grain and etc. so it’s going to be something they get from outside of Russia that’s the problem.
In any case, egg production is an indicator of issues and where eggs are so important to our diets it’s no joke when you have an egg shortage.
Maybe it has something to do with the brutal Russian winters? My chickens pretty much go dormant during the winter.