Egg prices are still high, even though bird flu cases are down and production costs are falling. So why aren’t prices falling, too? And why does it all feel a little unfair?
Nobody's being forced at gunpoint to buy eggs. Definitionally, if someone engages in that transation, they're better off, and it was voluntary; ergo, the transaction was fair. "Unfair" is, as Norm would say, a bunch of commie gobbledygook.
MEDIA: Stop talking about egg prices and tariffs! They are minimally related if at all!!
93 billion eggs are produced in U.S. every year (2023). In 2020 U.S. imported 180 million eggs: about 0.2% of egg production.
The high cost of eggs is primarily due to a severe bird flu outbreak that has significantly reduced the egg-laying hen population. Outbreaks of avian influenza, or bird flu, have led to the culling of millions of birds, including many egg-laying chickens, causing a decrease in egg supply and a subsequent increase in prices. As chicken populations are revived and egg production goes up, egg prices will come down.
Nobody's being forced at gunpoint to buy eggs. Definitionally, if someone engages in that transation, they're better off, and it was voluntary; ergo, the transaction was fair. "Unfair" is, as Norm would say, a bunch of commie gobbledygook.
MEDIA: Stop talking about egg prices and tariffs! They are minimally related if at all!!
93 billion eggs are produced in U.S. every year (2023). In 2020 U.S. imported 180 million eggs: about 0.2% of egg production.
The high cost of eggs is primarily due to a severe bird flu outbreak that has significantly reduced the egg-laying hen population. Outbreaks of avian influenza, or bird flu, have led to the culling of millions of birds, including many egg-laying chickens, causing a decrease in egg supply and a subsequent increase in prices. As chicken populations are revived and egg production goes up, egg prices will come down.