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Trump's 'almost impossible' plan to bring in more eggs is already flailing: report
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I am not at all sure that we can import from Turkey.
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/inspection/import-export/import-guidance/sourcing-egg-products-and-shell-eggs-foreign-countries
"Shell Eggs" is the term for whole, unbroken eggs in trade parlance.
So, basically, there's a long review process.
And the USDA needs to conduct the review.
So we are in a situation where Trump has managed to, in the matter of a few weeks, do his utmost to:
Antagonize Canada.
Antagonize the Netherlands.
Lay off thousands of workers from the agency that has to conduct this extensive legal review to authorize any other countries, a bunch of whom were just judicially reinstated for the time being.
While Trump isn't responsible for creating the pandemic that created the egg shortage, and that's really the elephant in the room here, I can't really imagine a worse possible way that he could be responding to it.
This is Trump, the same guy who thought that the best way to make COVID numbers go down is to stop recording COVID cases. He has the most rudimentary grasp on cause and effect that his solution to not enough eggs is to remove all safeguards and import whatever another country thinks qualifies as eggs. And that's ignoring eggs with bird flu. It's fully within his scope of inept decisions to enable DOGE to gut the FDA and expedite foreign eggs.
It isn't impossible to get the eggs. It's impossible to get the eggs that we expect.
I mean, I fully expect him to try to throw out the regulations that require all of that checking to import eggs.
It would be nice if he got rid of the regulations requiring eggs to be washed, like pretty much every other developed country.
It's Denmark that Trump has directly antagonized with all the Greenland stuff, not the Netherlands.
That said, the Netherlands is so ride or die for Canada that I wouldn't be surprised if they told the US to get fucked out of spite.
Dear federal employee, this is Elon again. I haven't seen a response to my last email. Are you mad at me?
This week I'd like you to provide evidence that you laid an egg for your Country. Failure to comply will result in me thinking that maybe you don't love me. Can you do just this one little thing for me? Come on, one little egg.
"While Trump isn't responsible for creating the pandemic that created the egg shortage, and that's really the elephant in the room here, I can't really imagine a worse possible way that he could be responding to it."
We're not even to horse paste solutions yet