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  • US egg farmers worry fight against bird flu is unwinnable as experts consider vaccinations: ‘I call this virus a terrorist’

    02/15/2025 11:34:20 AM PST · by dynachrome · 127 replies
    NY Post ^ | 2-15-25 | Katherine Donlevy
    Egg farmers are starting to worry that the fight against the avian flu is unwinnable. Producers across the country are bleeding millions of dollars to invest in biosecurity efforts to rebuild their rapidly dying flocks — all while protecting humans from catching the deadly disease, according to a report. “I call this virus a terrorist. And we are in a battle and losing, at the moment,” Greg Herbruck, the CEO of Herbruck’s Poultry Ranch in Michigan, told the San Antonio Express-News. Herbruck’s Poultry Ranch — one of the largest egg producers in the nation — was first hit by the...
  • Your Egg Prices Could Be So High Because of Price Gouging, Farm Group Says

    01/20/2023 10:13:16 PM PST · by blueplum · 30 replies
    Time ^ | 20 Jan 2023 | NIK POPLI
    The price of eggs has skyrocketed in recent months, up 138% year-over-year last month. A dozen eggs now averages about $4.25, due in part to avian flu, which is tearing through poultry farms across the U.S.—wiping out some 58 million birds in the last year. But there’s another culprit, says a farm advocacy group: price gouging. America’s largest egg producer saw a 600% jump in profits in the last quarter... ...“Avian flu is not manufactured—it’s real,” says Joe Maxwell, the co-founder of Farm Action. “But the dominant firms are using that supply chain disruption to gouge the consumers...” ...Overall, U.S....