eggs in Canada are still $4CAD/dozen which is $2.80 USD. Canadian egg producers have smaller and spread out farms preventing disease spread along with better supply issues overall.
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Canadian and Mexican egg producers vaccinate their chickens [1].
This isn’t a story about industrial farming. It’s about animal vaccine requirements and trade protectionism banning Canadian and Mexican eggs from the American supply chain.
[1] https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-case-for-vaccinating-chicke...
> This intersects with Craig’s main point — if we started vaccinating chickens, it would kill our poultry exports:
> The biggest sticking point is around trade. The US exported more than $5 billion in poultry meat and products on average every year for the past three years. The USDA enters into trade agreements with each individual country it trades with, explained Upali Galketi Aratchilage, a senior economist at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Each agreement outlines specific biosafety and production requirements that both countries agree to follow. The USDA said, in an email to Vox, that many of those agreements do not allow bird flu vaccination.