U.S. egg industry sees record chicken deaths from bird flu outbreak

www.cbsnews.com

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Hmmmm. No possible way we could have seen this coming.
To people who eat eggs: it's currently in your best interest to boycott eggs. Hands-down, no question.
- Local free range eggs at our co-op are still five bucks a dozen. So it looks like it's the big factory farmed chickens that are getting hit the hardest.
  
  Same where I live. Free-range egg prices haven’t changed a bit. Seems like taking care of your chickens brings benefits. Hmmm how strange; no lessons to be learned here corporate folks, no sir…
- eggs are already boycotting themselves
- Or we need to restructure HOAs so people can have a couple hens in the backyard
As someone who doesn't live in the US, how has this got so out of hand? Are there not vaccinations, birds being kept indoors/segregated to stop the spread? It's here in the UK too but it's not tearing through the country like this.
- We call it factory farming, which is different than ranching. You pack thousands of chickens into a giant warehouse together.
  Vaccines don't do much in an environment like that. And the federal government is being gutted by Nazis currently so that doesn't help.
  
  Yeah that's bleak, although we do have factory farms here too. Perhaps it's just the scale of it in the US.
  
  More like millions of birds.
- From my understanding, the antivaxxers are in the food chain regulation now.
Birds died? Like bucolic lives were tragically cut short by the flu? What do news services think happens to female chickens as soon as their prime egg laying time is over? And how about male chicks?
- I'm not entirely sure where you're going with this but it seems you're wondering why an article on egg prices isn't instead an article on the morality of chicken farms?
~~Don't worry. Mango Mussolini will help us out with more tariffs on imported eggs.~~
We need to wake the fuck up....

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