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Nemeski@lemm.ee to United States | News & Politics@midwest.social · 2 months ago

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

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

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Nemeski@lemm.ee to United States | News & Politics@midwest.social · 2 months ago
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More than 20 million egg-laying chickens in the U.S. died last quarter, federal data shows.
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      Yeah that’s bleak, although we do have factory farms here too. Perhaps it’s just the scale of it in the US.

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      I get that, but eggs aren’t a commodity yet non factory farmed egg prices are also soaring.

      This. Is. Greed.

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      More like millions of birds.

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