Seen at The Food Mart in the Osaka Expo: 

A chandelier made from 28,000 eggs, with a giant fried egg underneath that represents what it would look like if you made one with 28,000 eggs. 

(that's how many eggs the average Japanese person eats in their lifetime)

Seen at The Food Mart in the Osaka Expo: 

A chandelier made from 28,000 eggs, with a giant fried egg underneath that represents what it would look like if you made one with 28,000 eggs. 

(that's how many eggs the average Japanese person eats in their lifetime) https://spoon-tamago.com/osaka-expo-food-mart/

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I genuinely can't tell, is the "egg prices are out of control" a meme, or have eggs really gotten expensive?

EGG SHORTAGE CURRENT STATUS

RFK Jr has seeded the idea that we can let bird flu just rip through chicken flocks — the thinking is we will find the immune birds that way, and he is opposed to culling because that's how you get animal-to-human bird flu cases. The Ag Sec seems bought into this; she claims she knows farmers bought into this as well. 

Meanwhile public health officials say that this idea is bad, in part because there's not enough genetic diversity at these farms to have it make sense, and in part because it will explode the odds that the virus mutates to a form that allows for human to human transmission https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/health/kennedy-bird-flu.html

Independently of what's decided on culling, Initial biosecurity improvements are underway in 10 states but it will take months before those changes have meaningful effects

In USA they have gotten expensive because we have bird flu running through egg farms. Current practice is to nuke the whole flock once bird flu is at a farm which leads to a lower egg supply 

However price relief at least is in sight because demand is also now falling, as consumers can't take the high prices 
https://www.newsweek.com/egg-prices-plummet-nearly-five-month-low-2046276

Current remediation looks like 
https://warpcast.com/keccers.eth/0xc9606062

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ooh thanks for all the sources, I'm glad I raise my own chickens!

interesting article re: RFK's thoughts on remediation, he would be spot on if we were talking about wild populations of animals where culling can actually increase the spread of disease

for livestock that isn't intermingling with other populations, my understanding has always been that there is little difference between culling and letting immune individuals live, and the best answer is generally whatever disrupts production the least

hard to say what that really is.... the least disruptive option.. 

per the NYT article I linked "Within a day, H5N1 can sicken as much as a third of a flock."  —  in these cases it seems fair to say they are all dying in the end no matter what. just seems a matter of how quick it all goes down

because of that then the other reasons are invoked -- namely increased risk of unwanted bird flu mutation and letting it burn would also get our exports turned away