Eggs US – Price – Chart

This is a great reminder of how important it is to support local farmers and small operations, which increase the resilience of the system as a whole.

I’m not a fan of factory farming. But this isn’t a story about that. It’s a story about American (a) producers favouring cheap production by avoiding the cost of vaccination and (b) regulators favouring a policy of trade protectionism that keeps our neighbours’ cheap eggs off our grocery-store shelves.

[1] https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-case-for-vaccinating-chicke...

They can be but they’re not. Canadian and Mexican factory farms are not being affected sufficiently to raise prices. The cause of the price rise is not factory farming. It’s vaccination practice and trade policy.