Hmmmm. No possible way we could have seen this coming.
As someone who doesn’t live in the US, how has this got so out of hand? Are there not vaccinations, birds being kept indoors/segregated to stop the spread? It’s here in the UK too but it’s not tearing through the country like this.
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.
I get that, but eggs aren’t a commodity yet non factory farmed egg prices are also soaring.
This. Is. Greed.
To people who eat eggs: it’s currently in your best interest to boycott eggs. Hands-down, no question.
Local free range eggs at our co-op are still five bucks a dozen. So it looks like it’s the big factory farmed chickens that are getting hit the hardest.
Or we need to restructure HOAs so people can have a couple hens in the backyard
Honestly for the most part we need to not have HOAs. They offer very little benefit - if any - to most folks, especially in single family homes. I refuse to buy anywhere that has an HOA.
Maybe a slight use case in apartment complexes and such with legitimately shared areas, but even there HOA dues should be exclusively for repairs and maintenance to shared areas. They should not be fining people for their garden gnomes being an inch taller than regulation or any of that bullshit they’re infamous for.
And those apartment complexes etc probably don’t have the yard space for chickens anyway so they’re not really who we’re hoping to help in this context
I looked it up, and unfortunately, the houses subject to an HoA have a slight price premium. People are willing to pay more to live in an HOA neighborhood. Originally, the reason was to keep non-Caucasian people out with restrictive rules, but since that’s been ruled illegal, perhaps the perceived benefit is things like pools and tennis courts and keeping poor people out?
I can only hope this wakes people up to the unbelievably unsustainable way chickens are farmed in the US, even just a little bit. We saw a bit of that happen with cows after mad cow but nowhere near enough still, people will find ways to exploit animals in more and more inhumane ways to cut costs. I am not even a vegetarian, in fact I was a butcher for years (and my no longer being a butcher has nothing to do with personal ethics), but people need to understand that it is NOT POSSIBLE to treat animals the way we do in factory farming without horrifying consequences. You can look at it from a petri dish perspective or a spiritual one, either way the conclusion is the same and inescapable. We were feeding cows the blood and bones of slaughtered cows for decades and thought that was fine even after cows started dying of BSE, people only woke up when it jumped to people. Look up how these chickens are being treated, we aren’t even vaccinating them because it is viewed as more expensive than just slaughtering all of them.
Don’t worry. Mango Mussolini will help us out with more tariffs on imported eggs.
We need to wake the fuck up…
