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"The amount we could export would not solve their egg shortage," says the head of the Finnish Poultry Association.

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[-] TripleIris@lemmy.wtf 16 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

The most infuriating thing is that Trump gets to take a victory lap no matter what.

If a country gives us eggs, he gets to pretend to be a hero by saying he strong armed them into "surrendering." Then he'll say they're inferior eggs and encourage his cult not to buy them anyway.

If they a country doesn't, he gets to call them evil and will use that as justification for slapping massive tariffs on them. Then he'll say American eggs are the best and that he always supported American farmers. He'll probably say something like "they tried to smuggle their eggs into our market but I stopped them!"

[-] Mic_Check_One_Two@reddthat.com 5 points 5 hours ago

The most frustrating part is that my grocery store has so many eggs. The shelves aren’t empty. In fact, there are cartons on the shelves which are weeks old at this point. And that means supply is outpacing demand at the current prices. People are seeing the increased prices, and simply using less eggs. Which means prices could feasibly drop while we continue to have eggs on the shelves.

This price increase is just more greedflation. Studies have shown that the bird flu issue should have only increased the price by 12-15%, but here we are with increases in the high triple digits. Why sell ten cartons of eggs at $1 each, when you could simply sell two cartons at $6 each and make more money than if you had sold ten cartons?

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