Egg Prices to Keep Rising Due to “Bird Flu” Hoax

Like the coronavirus hoax, this bird flu thing was made up whole cloth.

it’s just total nonsense.

During the coronavirus hoax, the health authorities, a hive of scum and villainy, gained all these wild new powers, and they’re just exercising them arbitrarily to murder birds based on unfounded claims with no supporting evidence.

Why doesn’t someone tell them to prove these birds have the flu?

The Guardian:

Egg prices in the US have risen steeply over the last several weeks. Experts say they are likely to climb further as an avian flu outbreak decimates flocks across the country.

Though the avian flu has been in the US since 2022, the largest outbreak started in October and is still affecting millions of hens. About 14.7 million egg-producing chickens have been affected by the avian flu since the start of January, surpassing the number of hens affected in all of 2023, according to data from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).

“Based on the amount of birds that we have lost in the last few months, and the hen population, there just isn’t enough production to support the amount of demand that we have,” said Karyn Rispoli, managing director of eggs at the price-tracking firm Expana. “We’re at a point now where we’re truly in a shortage.”

In December the number of table eggs produced fell 4.5% compared with the same period last year, according to the USDA. With more hens infected with the avian flu in January, the number of eggs will probably continue to drop.

The avian flu is specifically affecting hens that produce table eggs as they are kept alive longer than broiler chickens, which are used for meat, making them more susceptible to infection during their lifetime. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that human infections of the avian flu are rare.

The wholesale price of a dozen large eggs has been climbing as much as 40 cents a week as farmers struggle to produce enough eggs to keep up with demand. As of 24 January, the wholesale price of a dozen large eggs was $7.24 in New York, $6.84 in the midwest and $8.35 in California.

Ending the current avian flu outbreak will be tough. Egg producers have been lobbying the federal government to help fund vaccine research and biosecurity to address the outbreak. The virus can spread from wild birds to domestic hens, and while the disease is known to spread from bird-to-bird contact, scientists are still unsure whether infections are airborne.

If a single chicken in a flock is infected, the whole flock becomes at risk of infection. Orders for new chicks can take up to a year and a half to be fulfilled, meaning it is unclear when the number of egg-producing hens will get back to normal levels.

Why are they killing these birds with foam?

Whose idea was that?

Can’t they at least make them into dog food? Or would that create the hybrid dog flu?