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Dems conveniently leave out the key part of this story—150 million chickens lost to bird flu under Joe Biden, driving egg prices to record highs.
Citizen Watch Report ^ | Alex Mark

Posted on 02/16/2025 10:54:13 AM PST by davikkm

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1 posted on 02/16/2025 10:54:13 AM PST by davikkm
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Given that BIRDS includes all those wild feathered critters in our yards, trees and all, the notion the culling of entire flocks would do anything against a true bird-killing epidemic is illogical.

Remember during the media hype of SARS that the un-vaccinated -- like us -- were "repositories" for the virus, and that ALL would have to be forced with jabs to assure something or the other, the number of "repository" wild birds far exceeds some chicken ranchers' flocks. So this was all a manipulation. To what aim?

Get farmers to use more drugs on their critters. Mandate them! "Take one for the team!" Et cetera.

Our neighbors raise chickens. Fresh eggs. None of us worry -- or even notice -- when one of them gets the sniffles.

2 posted on 02/16/2025 11:00:53 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: davikkm

Ten bucks a dozen at Winco in Chico this week


3 posted on 02/16/2025 11:03:00 AM PST by abigkahuna
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“Since the bird flu outbreak began in 2022, over 100 million chickens have been culled ... leading to a shortage in egg supply and subsequently driving up prices.”

The cabal’s dream is to create famine.


4 posted on 02/16/2025 11:04:52 AM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: davikkm

$5.46/dozen at Aldi’s

I have one egg left.


5 posted on 02/16/2025 11:06:05 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: davikkm

This is a silly article.

We destroyed over 40 million birds in 2015 due to an avian influenza outbreak.

After that, Trump had four years to promote discontinuing the practice of culling during outbreaks, if it’s such a bad idea.


6 posted on 02/16/2025 11:07:11 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: davikkm

I didn’t check Walmart pricing, but their egg section was nearly empty.


7 posted on 02/16/2025 11:07:36 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Jamestown1630

“the practice of culling during outbreaks”

Due to the heavily Hispanic nature of the poultry industry work force and the frequent Hispanic cultural practice of having a few chickens at home, culling may no longer be an effective option.

Huge egg farms may no longer be feasible.


8 posted on 02/16/2025 11:15:12 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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Here is the other half of the story.

I will lay the food crisis squarely at the feet of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.

People forget about the ripple effect of the backlog at the Los Angleses port that most famously resulted in the scarcity of baby formula for many months.

As I posted last August:


People are forgetting that the root cause of the increased food prices today is due to the Biden-Harris-Buttigieg administration's failure to manage the supply chain back in 2022.

If you recall, the fallout from the botched supply chain backup resulted in rail companies declaring force majeure and canceling transport contracts for grains and feedstocks to farmers. This forced farmers to dump milk, and eventually slaughter their chickens and livestock because they couldn't feed them. The rail companies had to prioritize their rolling stock to help alleviate the backlogs at the west coast shipping ports and transport those goods across the country.

We're now seeing the prices of milk, cheese, eggs, ground beef, bacon, bread, and other farm products rise because it takes years to recover from the slaughter of herds of beef livestock, milking cows, pigs, chickens, and the loss of the resulting dairy and meat byproducts.


-PJ

9 posted on 02/16/2025 11:15:28 AM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: davikkm

My friend Don grew up in DC and his family raised chickens.

When a rooster got too noisy and a policeman stopped by, the problem was solved by dinnertime.


10 posted on 02/16/2025 11:17:17 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time; Jamestown1630; reasonisfaith; davikkm

When was their anything beyond clairvoyant, political rhetoric to say killing chickens would mitigate or solve the problem?


11 posted on 02/16/2025 11:22:35 AM PST by Retain Mike ( Sat Cong)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Culling does seem kinda dumb. Just let it run it’s course. Some will survive. Throw some roosters in and breed a stronger flock.


12 posted on 02/16/2025 11:22:41 AM PST by Pocketdoor
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To: reasonisfaith

Famine? I think their dream is to cull conservatives.


13 posted on 02/16/2025 11:24:43 AM PST by Pocketdoor
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To: reasonisfaith

Not much different than 1933 when FDR had cattle and hogs shot and buried to get the price up Up UP! And the meat was buried, not given to the starving poor in the 1930s.


14 posted on 02/16/2025 11:24:46 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Jamestown1630

In 2015 a bunch of stupid blue states hadn’t passed cage free egg laws yet.

The price increase is a caused by both the cage free laws and the bird flu.

I also think the current culling protocol is just making weaker chicken flocks and maybe they need to stop culling and start looking for survivors to use as breedstock for new laying flocks.


15 posted on 02/16/2025 11:25:21 AM PST by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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Not necessarily the flu, but the PCR TEST they were forced to administer.

This was done on purpose., so they could use an issue EVERYONE, even the urban humanoids and the immigrants could understand: "Why duh eggs be so much money?"

If Kamala won, they wouldn't mention it. Only conservative "complainers" and "racists" looking to blame a bLACK woman for e'rrrythang would be whining. If Trump won the election somehow, they planned on this being the common man issue, I mean, common uh...

16 posted on 02/16/2025 11:27:11 AM PST by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: Retain Mike

Culling to control diseases is as old as large scale poultry farming in the US:

https://www.aaap.info/assets/documents/Hist_article_2004.pdf


17 posted on 02/16/2025 11:27:34 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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The price increase is so extreme because it is ON TOP of the inflation we'd already experienced; and we can blame Biden for that.
18 posted on 02/16/2025 11:28:58 AM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Jamestown1630

Yep, that too. A perfect storm of stupid.


19 posted on 02/16/2025 11:33:38 AM PST by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: Retain Mike
--- "When was their anything beyond clairvoyant, political rhetoric to say killing chickens would mitigate or solve the problem?"

So very, very often about the Benjamins. Turns out Moderna -- remember them? -- and Zoetis want farmers to be required to jab their flocks. Ka-ching, that is what is hoped.

As bird flu concerns grow, scientists race to develop new vaccines NBC, 17 January 2025

U.S. conditionally approves vaccine to protect poultry from avian flu Science.org, 14 February 2025

Company says it received conditional approval for bird flu vaccine from US Department of Agriculture CNN, 16 February 2025

The narrative speeds our way....
20 posted on 02/16/2025 11:34:53 AM PST by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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