Summary
The Trump administration’s effort to import eggs to offset losses from bird flu is struggling due to logistical challenges and global supply constraints.
Many countries, including Turkey, are prioritizing domestic supply and imposing export taxes.
Experts warn that replacing U.S. egg production with imports is unrealistic, as the industry operates on a local scale.
To meet demand, the U.S. would need 70 to 100 million eggs in the next month, a goal analysts say is nearly impossible to achieve quickly.
No, why would you trade with other countries and widen the trade deficit? Apparently that’s a big deal.
Sell eggs to US? Who would do such a terrible thing to them?!? Trump treats every country that sells more stuff to the US as an aggressor, so why would anyone want to sell them anything? (And once eggs are no longer needed, trump would put tariffs to ruin all business that helped him out)
Maybe we could ask Canada for eggs… oh wait… how about Mexico…. Hm. Gee. It’s almost like pissing off our trade partners for self-aggrandizement and market manipulation was a bad idea…
It’s almost like isolationism was a bad idea or something.
I don’t need anyone else!
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Why isn’t anyone helping me?!
Importing fresh eggs is probably a non-starter, anyway. Look around your country at the price of eggs, it varies a lot even at large scales. Eggs don’t ship that well.
But throwing money at basic science research could, actually, solve the problem. Eradicate bird flu and the prices will drop. But you’d need a pro-science administration to do that.
OH MY GOD WITH THE FUCKING EGGS ALREADY…
Maybe Marx was wrong, maybe eggs are the opiate of the masses and maybe Trump truly bungling this fucking clown show will spur action. Maybe not… but I’d hope so.
elon is gonna hire a bunch of h1b’s to lay eggs
He can ask rfk jr, parasites lays thousands of eggs a day per parasite
And considering about a billion other people in the world have the same worm that rfk had, that’s a lot of eggs
