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U.S. egg industry sees record chicken deaths from bird flu outbreak (www.cbsnews.com)

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[–] tree_frog@lemm.ee 30 points 1 week ago (3 children)

We call it factory farming, which is different than ranching. You pack thousands of chickens into a giant warehouse together.

Vaccines don't do much in an environment like that. And the federal government is being gutted by Nazis currently so that doesn't help.

[–] Lazylazycat@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

Yeah that's bleak, although we do have factory farms here too. Perhaps it's just the scale of it in the US.

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I get that, but eggs aren't a commodity yet non factory farmed egg prices are also soaring.

This. Is. Greed.

[–] tree_frog@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I've been paying the same price for local free-range eggs for four years.

But yes, the egg cartels and large grocery stores are fixing the prices too. Better to not buy from folks like that rather than supporting their oligopoly.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 week ago

More like millions of birds.