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Coming soon: The $1 egg
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The FJB administration told Americans to prepare to pay $1 for an egg.
Not $1 a dozen, but $1 each. For the mathematically challenged (i.e. Democrats) that's $12 a dozen.
Eggs were
$1.48 a dozen when Donald John Trump's presidency ended.
Is this a joke? What exactly is going on?
The USDA reported, "An ongoing outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza has reduced the U.S. egg-layer flock and drove a 10.3% increase in retail egg prices in April 2022. Retail poultry prices have been high, with historically low stocks of frozen chicken (also called cold storage). The ongoing highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak has also contributed to increasing poultry prices as over 38 million birds have been affected. The disease prevalence also impacts international demand for U.S. poultry. Price impacts of the outbreak will be monitored closely. Poultry prices are now predicted to increase between 8.5% and 9.5%, and egg prices are predicted to increase between 19.5% and 20.5%."
Those are the retail prices.
At the farm level, prices soar.
The report said, "Farm-level egg prices increased by 110.1% in April 2022. The price increases followed the loss of millions of laying hens to highly pathogenic avian influenza, primarily in Iowa and the surrounding States. Farm-level egg prices are now predicted to increase between 73.5% and 76.5% in 2022."
Stacey Lennox did the math and said, "That could mean $1.00 an egg."
Even at half that price, people will be paying $6 a dozen -- or four times what eggs cost when Trump was president.
The price already doubled.
The FJB rise in egg prices will trigger inflation in baked goods, including bread, which already suffers from rising wheat prices.
Add to that
food processing centers catching fire at a record pace, and I get the feeling Democrats want the nation to go on the FJB Diet. There is nothing these ghouls won't do to seize and maintain power.