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Finland turns down US request for eggs (yle.fi)

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Finland has declined a U.S. request to export eggs amid a severe American shortage caused by bird flu.

The Finnish Poultry Association cited the lack of prior trade agreements and complex regulatory hurdles. Even if exports were possible, Finland’s limited egg production would not significantly impact the U.S. crisis.

Other European nations, including Sweden and Denmark, also face difficulties meeting U.S. demand, while Europe grapples with its own egg shortages.

The U.S. has turned to countries like Turkey and the Netherlands for supplies as bird flu remains a global issue.

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[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Lol that sounds like it's reasonable and profitable in the long term, get it the fuck out of here.

We need to maximize this next quarter because, well, we're not really sure but it better be maximized. We understand that we could have a stress free, guaranteed profitable business five years from now but we really really need to just squeeze this fucker for everything it's worth right now.

Money. Now.

Less money, but now. Less logic now. Everything now, like right fucking now. We still don't understand why we're doing this, it could very well be categorized as a mental illness, the way that we absolutely on purpose cause a shit load of pain and suffering on everything that crosses our path in the name of just a little bit of more money now, but it's okay because for some reason (the reason is more money right now) it's been glorified in our media and it's way more acceptable than showing just the smallest amount of empathy so we're just going to keep doing it.

Any time that someone raises the point that there's something fundamentally wrong with capitalism, were just going to tell them that they aren't shaking hands firmly enough or making good enough eye contact during interviews with their own dad, because again, we are not allowed to do empathy. I don't think we were ever taught that in business school, but it's implied so in order to be successful we just need to keep absolutely demolishing everything else around us that could make us human in order to maintain profit and image.