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I was today years old when I found out egg trafficing is a thing.
Imagine going to prison for it and bunking next to a guy who got done for heroin trafficing.
Why does the US have high egg prices, but Canada and Mexico do not?
Actual answer?
Canadian egg farms have tens of thousands of chickens on average, and there's a lot of separate farms.
US egg farms have millions, and there are fewer total farms.
If a single bird gets infected with avian flu the whole flock needs to be culled. Bigger flocks are both more likely to catch it, and more birds affected when it happens.
There is also a massive chicken cartel in the US which dictates the laws so small farmers cannot abide by all the nitpicking rules.
Inversely, most provinces have supply management of dairy and poultry products to insure a stable price for consumers and protect farmers from inevitable variable conditions.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_and_poultry_supply_management_in_Canada
Just because I wanted to read more about it
Don't get me wrong I'm a Canadian lifer there's lots we don't do right but this here... I love our country. We aren't completely subverted to American policies.
That said now is when we should be shoring up those areas of our country that are at risk of American corruption.
Sounds like time to nationalize
Did you know that committing atrocity against chickens is in fact entirely optional? You can live a longer, healthier, wealthier life by simply not abusing animals.
most people are not abusing animals.
99% of the animals consumed come from factory farms. Factory farms are necessarily abusive beyond the point of atrocity. You are an animal abuser. Either own it, or change.
Every egg carton in my grocery says “cage free” (unless it’s free range). That’s got to be worth something
You’re making an assumption about both that person and their ability to source ethical meat or dairy products.
There is no such thing as "ethical meat or dairy", so no, I am not doing that. Is there a place where you can ethically obtain slaves? Of course not. Is there a place where you can ethically kill an individual that doesn't want to die? No, no such place exists.
I made the assumption that they consume animals. You may feel free to attack that assumption.
Actually you called them an animal abuser. It’s like calling a film buff a sexual assaulter because of what goes on in Hollywood. It’s silly.
I understand this is an important subject for you but if you can’t detach your emotions from your replies then you end up insulting folk and making us all (vegetarians) look like idiots. Stop it.
You are an animal abuser.
this is a baseless claim.
That's actually somewhat fair. It's not entirely baseless. The basis for my claim is your previous statement that "most people don't abuse animals." This is factually incorrect, and easily disproved with just the scantest effort. It's the sort of claim a person makes for the sake of moral license rather than for the sake of argument. To manage their own feelings rather than for how convincing it will be to others. Based on that, I made the assumption that you practice the sort of animal abuse I described in my previous comment. I don't know for a fact that you consume factory farmed animals, but in the absence of further evidence to the contrary, I feel perfectly fine with that assumption. The conclusion that you are an animal abuser then becomes an unavoidable consequence.
This is factually incorrect, and easily disproved with just the scantest effort.
if that were true, you could prove it, instead of claiming it's easy to prove.
The conclusion that you are an animal abuser then becomes an unavoidable consequence.
no, you're making a leap of logic
I tend to agree that people who eat meat and outsource the dirty work without a care in the world as to how it gets to their table are just as guilty as the operators.
one can care without an effective means to do something about it.
Capitalism turning people to veganism like it did tiny homes
I assure you, the net effect of capitalism is to turn people away from veganism.
I imagine the US standard of shoving antibiotics into the chickens instead of vaccinating them probably doesn't help
Because there is a big bird flu in USA and it is being mismanaged by a government of idiots who rather insult every one.
No, that is not the issue anymore and has not been for a while. Last time, to stop this, the government had to threaten with anti cartel actions - the prices were suddenly down again.
What do the cartels have to do with eggs?
I wish I lived near Canada so that I could get breakfast there for cheap.
Cant have affordable egs sir...
Can we at least have affordable drugs?
I don't even, WE ARE LIVIN IN THE ONION!
The egg game is lucrative. DM me for egg info
There are eggs that still come in Styrofoam?
Dude I'm a Yankee. Born and raised in RI and now living in southeast Mass.
Last year I went to Texas. Visited Houston, Austin, and Dallas. Rented a Mustang Mach-E and drove between the three cities (which are a big triangle with not much in between).
Texas has these gas station rest stops that are well known. Bucc-ees. And they are absurd. They are at least as large as a supermarket up here.
They have fountain beverages with Styrofoam cups.
I was so taken aback by this. I cannot believe that there are still companies choosing Styrofoam for fountain drinks.
No wonder they freak out about paper straws. Like, those legitimately suck, don't get me wrong...but paper and even plastic cups are only functionally worse than Styrofoam when it comes to insulation (and by proxy, condensation)...they are objectively better in every other way I can think of.
How the fuck are they going to adopt paper straws if they are still using Styrofoam cups?
Huh, I haven’t seen that in a few years
There is no such thing as an illegal egg
I'm not surprised. Border enforcement, like all law enforcement entities, do more to hassle harmless actions than stopping harmful ones. They're the wrong group to handle the fentanyl epidemic anyway. That should be the job of proper drug rehabilitation programs.
could be for good reason, there's a huge bird flu outbreak in the US right now, plus the US also has really strict egg washing laws, so depending on where these eggs are going, and assuming that it isn't just eggs, which is likely, it could make sense.
It’s strange that Canada isn’t having the same issue: epidemics don’t usually respect borders
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