Funny, I get about three dozen a day from my hens and can’t even give them away.
[[Egg Smuggling Is on the Rise at the US Border as Prices Soar]]
I never in my wildest thoughts imagined that “Egg Smuggling” woudl become a thing of necessity in one of the most advanced nations on earth
Yay Third World Poverty! The middle class are becoming just like poor nations now- maybe the nations that hate us won’t anymore? yeah right!
I am spending about $40 a month to feed my chickens now, up from about $25. We get 8-12 eggs daily
“severe bird flu epidemic”
I follow this one “kook” on X (Twitter) who has this elaborate theory about the real pandemic being caused by a particular variant of avian flu called H7N9. The only reason I follow him is because Kevin McKernan (genomics expert) follows him. When another scientist asked McKernan why he would follow a “kook” he just said he found his theory somewhat interesting. H7N9 is much more lethal than covid.
John Cullen 🐓
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“Maybe, Kayleigh was right?
Maybe, the virus in China and the virus in New York were not the same?”
Sure doesn’t look like the same virus..
https://twitter.com/I_Am_JohnCullen/status/1774472727652405647
By Reuters Fact Check
May 4, 20223:21 PM EDT
EXCERPTS:
Social media users are sharing the claim that there is a planned increase in fires at food processing plants to purposefully create food shortages. However, there is no evidence to support this claim.
Examples can be seen (here) and (here).
The text in one post reads: "Food processing plants don't just "accidentally" burn down at this rate and they certainly don't "coincidentally" become landing pads for plane crashes at the rate they are. Our food supply is under attack in America. The question is---by who?"
One image (here) lists 12 fire incidents in food processing plants around the country.
There is no evidence to suggest that any of these fires were premeditated in an effort to create a food shortage.
Fact checkers Snopes (here) and Logically (here) have debunked the claim.
U.S. News & World Report (here) and WCNC (here) have also debunked the claim.
WCNC linked to further reports on several of the 2022 incidents, noting most were accidental or did not have any indication of foul play (here).
Likewise, Reuters did not find any evidence that the 2022 incidents were intentional or planned for the sake of creating food shortages, and fires at food processing plants are not uncommon. Past examples can be seen (here) (here) (here) (here) (here).
The USDA told Reuters via email that the claims saying these fires were caused by arsons are false.
Senior Vice President of Communications at the National Chicken Council Tom Super told Reuters via email that the claims seemed to be "fake news."
"I can only speak for chicken, but like any manufacturing plant/industry, there are generally a few fires that occur each year across the country. The majority of them are accidental and are contained rather quickly. And certainly not enough to affect the chicken supply," Super said.
A representative for General Mills, one of the companies named in the posts being shared, told Reuters via email that the company has not "experienced any arson at our manufacturing facilities."
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Complied list of nearly 100 fires from 2021 and 2022 from Rumble:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4219902/posts?page=15#15
We have a Zeeper who will just be mortified by this news.
If I didn’t have bird dogs I would get chickens. I love eggs.
they are more expensive b/c stores are getting away with raising prices.
Is Russia making our egg 🥚 prices go up too? RUSSIA!!!!!
The hens are going on strike for better pay...they have been just scratching by.
And the eggs that are hatched to be raised are causing problems...the female hatchlings do not want to be called “chicks”...and neither do most of the male hatchlings!
The USDA DEI inspector is fining poultry farms for misgendering hatchlings and is requiring them to let the hatchling decide their own sex.
Someone inform Marcus Maximus.I thought only Russia had an egg crisis.