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submitted 3 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

Summary

Finland has declined a U.S. request to export eggs amid a severe American shortage caused by bird flu.

The Finnish Poultry Association cited the lack of prior trade agreements and complex regulatory hurdles. Even if exports were possible, Finland’s limited egg production would not significantly impact the U.S. crisis.

Other European nations, including Sweden and Denmark, also face difficulties meeting U.S. demand, while Europe grapples with its own egg shortages.

The U.S. has turned to countries like Turkey and the Netherlands for supplies as bird flu remains a global issue.

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[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 316 points 3 months ago

Nobody should send us eggs. Nobody should give us anything, given the government we have now

Orangeboi wants transactional, so give him transactional. Hold the US state department over the barrel as long as you can. Hold our feet to the fire. Make the negotiations as torturous and hostile as possible. Squeeze us until you see blood. Get absolutely everything you can out of any “deal” you make with us - it’s the “art of the deal”, after all.

There are huge swaths of Americans and political leadership that now really need to find out, because they’ve been fucking around and ruining things for far too long.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

The US is going to be begging for more than just eggs in a few months. California is one of their biggest agricultural states and they have no water; Trump had them empty their reservoirs in an idiotic attempt to fight the wildfires earlier this year. Plus, the whole country is dependent on Canadian potash to fertilize their crops.

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[-] rockettaco37@lemmy.world 151 points 3 months ago

This is what happens when you burn all your bridges. I'm American myself and to be brutally honest, I hope most of the free world will continue to refuse requests to export to us.

[-] Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 37 points 3 months ago

The US is no longer a member of the 'free world'. Traveling to US now is just as dangerous as travelling to China.

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[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 147 points 3 months ago

"Okay, but you have to become the 20th province of Finland."

[-] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 53 points 3 months ago

I accept Finland's terms. Now that I'm a Finnish citizen, I would like to move to the country proper.

[-] Senseless@feddit.org 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

First you have to learn proper Finnish swearing. For that I suggest "My summer car" on steam. As proof you'll have to get all achievements.

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[-] Azal@pawb.social 10 points 3 months ago

I for one welcome our Finnish overlords.

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[-] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 93 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I'm sure the Finns aren't exactly keen to take a price hike on eggs to meet a hostile country's needs.

[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 37 points 3 months ago

The Finnish Poultry Association cited the lack of prior trade agreements and complex regulatory hurdles.

Such an understated way of saying: you started a trade war, now go fsck yourself!

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[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 61 points 3 months ago

How about we introduce export tariffs on eggs instead.

[-] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 60 points 3 months ago

Egg prices aren’t high solely because of bird flu. They’re high because of regional monopolies and a price fixing cartel. The largest egg producers are seeing record profits.

I hope it’s clear that I’m not saying bird flu doesn’t exist or affect prices. I’m not much of a conspiracy theorist. But if I had to guess, I’d say it’s 10% bird flu and 90% companies raising prices in unison because they can blame bird flu. If it were just bird flu, the companies would be losing money.

NB: it feels very weird to call them “egg producers” because hens are the actual egg producers. Egg distributors, maybe? In any case, the distributors are doing fine and their only competition in most regions are small, organic farms whose eggs were already $7 a dozen. It’s just the low end of the market that’s gone crazy.

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 28 points 3 months ago

it feels very weird to call them “egg producers”

Chicken pimps?

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[-] GiantChickDicks@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago

This is important to bring up. If we want to stop being subjected to this kind of fuckery, we need to unite and vote with our dollars. I love making egg-based dishes, but there are other options. The real problem is most people struggle with the idea of making sacrifices to get what they want later. Just don't buy eggs as an average consumer if they are that unaffordable.

In the United States, we are spoiled for choice when we shop. We're used to being able to get what we want when we want it, and that's led to a sense of entitlement. Eat other things, get creative. Look up effective substitutions for eggs in baking.

We don't have to take this. So don't.

[-] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I’d say it’s 10% bird flu and 90% companies raising prices in unison because they can blame bird flu.

Why yes, there was no consequences during covid so the companies are gonna keep doing this until there are consequences.

Remember, there was the bread price fixing in Canada too, yeah, feels like such a long time ago

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[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 58 points 3 months ago

Every country should avoid doing business with Trump’s regime because he will screw you over either way.

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 29 points 3 months ago

Trump still owes my county from his 2016 campaign. He rented out the fairgrounds for a rally and never paid up.

[-] Hawke@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

Your county officials made an unofficial donation to the trump campaign in 2016, is what actually happened.

[-] faythofdragons@slrpnk.net 11 points 3 months ago

Effectively, yeah. I'm still gonna complain tho, haha

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[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 49 points 3 months ago
[-] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 30 points 3 months ago

158% increase in egg interceptions

Thank you for the first real lol of the day.

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
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[-] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago
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[-] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

Did you say thanks ? No? Go lay your own...

[-] whyalone@lemm.ee 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

This egg trade is insane, not a single euro country could help USA here simply because the us has a 340m+ population and that being said, it would take the entire eu support/ supply in order to meet the demand of the USA

[-] Noizth 22 points 3 months ago

It would take a sacrifice from EU countries to help an "ally" whose leadership will then threaten them, put more tariffs and make unfair deals when is your turn to request help.

[-] SolidShake@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

trump is going to tariff finland now because "wahh"

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[-] global__warning@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 months ago

i am fully in support of them not selling us eggs.

[-] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 17 points 3 months ago

Do not help this toxic nation! America is evil.

[-] LaterRedditor@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago

Who has the cards?

[-] debil@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Bird flu is the nature's way of saying how cruel and fucked up the system is and how it should be abolished. Humans don't need eggs for anything.

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[-] Alloi@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago

wonder if rapey mc rapist and techno nazi along with their gaggle of dip shit losers invested in poultry and eggs before this.

i mean its not uncommon for rich assholes and their corporate entities to heavily invest in things they know are about skyrocket in price or short smaller out circle businesses they know wont make it if the market craches, especially if they get to control the "soft landing"

even during a recession its possible to make a pyramid sized pile of cash if you bet on the right failure, even more so if you can fix the bet in the first place by forcing its price down.

they literally made a whole movie about this about the 2008 financial crisis.

you may not see it on paper right now, but that doesnt mean corpos arent sifting cash into secret accounts, either directly or on their behalf.

[-] boaratio@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

The part that kills me about all this is that there is a bird flu vaccine, but US poultry farmers aren't allowed to use it because then we couldn't export eggs to other countries. There was a really good CBS Sunday Morning segment about this.

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