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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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i am fully in support of them not selling us eggs.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 18 points 5 hours ago
[–] Alloi@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

wonder if rapey mc rapist and techno nazi along with their gaggle of dip shit losers invested in poultry and eggs before this.

i mean its not uncommon for rich assholes and their corporate entities to heavily invest in things they know are about skyrocket in price or short smaller out circle businesses they know wont make it if the market craches, especially if they get to control the "soft landing"

even during a recession its possible to make a pyramid sized pile of cash if you bet on the right failure, even more so if you can fix the bet in the first place by forcing its price down.

they literally made a whole movie about this about the 2008 financial crisis.

you may not see it on paper right now, but that doesnt mean corpos arent sifting cash into secret accounts, either directly or on their behalf.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 4 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Has anyone offered to sell us eggs at exorbitant prices? Cuz that would be funny as hell.

[–] kmartburrito@lemmy.world 28 points 8 hours ago
[–] SolidShake@lemmy.world 13 points 7 hours ago

trump is going to tariff finland now because "wahh"

[–] rockettaco37@lemmy.world 126 points 13 hours ago (11 children)

This is what happens when you burn all your bridges. I'm American myself and to be brutally honest, I hope most of the free world will continue to refuse requests to export to us.

[–] Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 18 points 6 hours ago

The US is no longer a member of the 'free world'. Traveling to US now is just as dangerous as travelling to China.

[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Sure. But the American empire will not just slowly die. As their people lose their "toys" that distract them they will need someone to blame it on that isn't the US government.

This will at some point be other western nations along with their current scapegoat of immigrants and Palestine supporters. The American empire will use its military power long before it just lets it's empire die. Its playing cards to see which nations it can blame first and which western allies will decide to align with them rather than face their military.

I agree with all the anti American boycotts. I do. But I don't think people realize exactly where that is heading on a world stage.

[–] Senal@programming.dev 5 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

I suspect more people than you think realise this is a potential outcome.

Assuming it boils over before there is another election (also assuming that's a thing that happens), military action is 100% a playable card.

It's a toddler with a nuclear tantrum button.

It's honestly not that much different in type then most nuclear powered nations.

The difference is "absolute last resort, and only maybe then" vs "they won't let me annex Greenland and are being mean to me"

Hyperbolic ofc, but illustrative.

What are the reasonable good alternatives though?

[–] melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 29 points 13 hours ago (10 children)

yeah, it sucks, I wish we had this cheap protein, but, like... americans need to suffer. they need to suffer, and they need to know it's their leader's fault.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 5 points 7 hours ago

They need to know it's their fault. They elected him, either through action or inaction.

Then they need to do some introspection to figure out what the fuck is wrong with them.

But they won't because America doesn't do that. 9/11, for example, had nothing to do with anything America had done.

[–] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 15 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The suffering is almost a guarantee, but I'm not holding my breath on anyone that doesn't already do so holding Trump accountable for shit.

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[–] DeadNinja@lemmy.world 27 points 10 hours ago

Did you say thanks ? No? Go lay your own...

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 133 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

"Okay, but you have to become the 20th province of Finland."

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 50 points 14 hours ago (8 children)

I accept Finland's terms. Now that I'm a Finnish citizen, I would like to move to the country proper.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

now you can go to the doctor without losing your home!

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

...And just like that, Finland now shares a border with Russia on both sides of the globe. I'm sure the Finns are great friends with Russia, so Russia has no reason to worry that the vast military arsenal of the former USA is theirs now.

Also, does this mean the president of the former USA will be punished for his crimes? I'm not familiar with Finnish law, but it has to be better than ours.

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Also, does this mean the president of the former USA will be punished for his crimes? I'm not familiar with Finnish law, but it has to be better than ours.

This was my hope, too!

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The US doesn't technically have a land border with russia, but they're only seperated by the narrow Bering strait

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, that's why I just said a border. True, it's 51 miles of water, but it not like that's a hard thing to cross over.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 307 points 18 hours ago (8 children)

Nobody should send us eggs. Nobody should give us anything, given the government we have now

Orangeboi wants transactional, so give him transactional. Hold the US state department over the barrel as long as you can. Hold our feet to the fire. Make the negotiations as torturous and hostile as possible. Squeeze us until you see blood. Get absolutely everything you can out of any “deal” you make with us - it’s the “art of the deal”, after all.

There are huge swaths of Americans and political leadership that now really need to find out, because they’ve been fucking around and ruining things for far too long.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 13 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

The US is going to be begging for more than just eggs in a few months. California is one of their biggest agricultural states and they have no water; Trump had them empty their reservoirs in an idiotic attempt to fight the wildfires earlier this year. Plus, the whole country is dependent on Canadian potash to fertilize their crops.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 1 points 3 hours ago

Is there anybody who's done the analysis on his bad it will be? California's online tracker shows right now that nearly every major reservoir in the state is above the historical average level for March 15th. The system as a whole is at over 78% of capacity. The news stories that I found put the releases at of 2.2 billion gallons, which is not much. (The lake near me contains about 133 billion gallons.) They were from Lake Kaweah and Lake Success, both reservoirs which primarily serve flood-control functions.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 4 points 7 hours ago

Dumping all that water from the reservoirs did nothing but sabotaging California's ability to make it through the dry season. Not a drop of it went to fire-fighting. Trump is a wrecker and a liar.

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[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 60 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

How about we introduce export tariffs on eggs instead.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 32 points 14 hours ago
[–] Zugyuk@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Where's your chicken suit?

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago

impounded at Texas Dept of Justice for being too furry-like.

[–] whyalone@lemm.ee 24 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (3 children)

This egg trade is insane, not a single euro country could help USA here simply because the us has a 340m+ population and that being said, it would take the entire eu support/ supply in order to meet the demand of the USA

[–] Noizth@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 11 hours ago

It would take a sacrifice from EU countries to help an "ally" whose leadership will then threaten them, put more tariffs and make unfair deals when is your turn to request help.

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