In the early spring , the price of gas went up 20c/ litre. It wasn’t any politician with an up down button under his desk but the refinery being shut down for maintenance repairs
I have not seen ANY proposition that the current worldwide avian flu outbreak, on par with what could be considered a “pandemic,” has ANYTHING to do with “lack of regulations.”
Indeed, to some extent the poultry/egg business is now self-regulating to the point of paranoia. One egg-farm owner welcomed me to his railroad feed terminal, but refused to let me and my wife within A MILE of either of the two farms simply because we own chickens. (Well, if we had taken decontamination showers and changed our clothes and THEN changed into isolation suits—maybe…..)
As ludicrous and delusional as RedHat’s proposition that “Trump will make eggs cheap again” truly is, OneEye’s assertion that “lack of regulations caused a bird flu outbreak” is equally fallacious and rises to “conspiracy theory” level.
Oh, and the “millions of egg-laying hens” that have died? That’s because the “regulations” dictate that if the virus is detected on a farm, ALL the birds must immediately be slaughtered and incinerated—and that can be hundreds of thousands of hens, or even a million, on just ONE egg farm. And even the NY Times (in an article from April 22 of this year) acknowledges that there is a financial incentive to do so for large factory-farm corporations, as they can file for reimbursement from the government for their losses—funding not available to small poultry farms or backyard flocks that get “death sentences” when avian flu is discovered.
As serious as avian flu is as a global avian health issue, we don’t need “disinformation” like this, either.
braindead Premium Member about 7 hours ago
The price of eggs will not come down appreciably.
Magats will claim they would have gone up astronomically if not for Their Messiah.
some idiot from R'lyeh Premium Member about 6 hours ago
And here was me thinking it was profiteering.
syzygy47 about 6 hours ago
In the early spring , the price of gas went up 20c/ litre. It wasn’t any politician with an up down button under his desk but the refinery being shut down for maintenance repairs
Dobber Premium Member about 3 hours ago
Silly wabbit, why do you waste your breath?
LNER4472 Premium Member about 2 hours ago
My wife and I raise chickens.
I have not seen ANY proposition that the current worldwide avian flu outbreak, on par with what could be considered a “pandemic,” has ANYTHING to do with “lack of regulations.”
Indeed, to some extent the poultry/egg business is now self-regulating to the point of paranoia. One egg-farm owner welcomed me to his railroad feed terminal, but refused to let me and my wife within A MILE of either of the two farms simply because we own chickens. (Well, if we had taken decontamination showers and changed our clothes and THEN changed into isolation suits—maybe…..)
As ludicrous and delusional as RedHat’s proposition that “Trump will make eggs cheap again” truly is, OneEye’s assertion that “lack of regulations caused a bird flu outbreak” is equally fallacious and rises to “conspiracy theory” level.
Oh, and the “millions of egg-laying hens” that have died? That’s because the “regulations” dictate that if the virus is detected on a farm, ALL the birds must immediately be slaughtered and incinerated—and that can be hundreds of thousands of hens, or even a million, on just ONE egg farm. And even the NY Times (in an article from April 22 of this year) acknowledges that there is a financial incentive to do so for large factory-farm corporations, as they can file for reimbursement from the government for their losses—funding not available to small poultry farms or backyard flocks that get “death sentences” when avian flu is discovered.
As serious as avian flu is as a global avian health issue, we don’t need “disinformation” like this, either.