Episode #1012: More Chickens Are on the Way
First Broadcast: 2/3/25
In the first week of his second term, Donald Trump started (and ended?) a trade war with Colombia, threatened a real war with Denmark over Greenland, pardoned 1500 rioters who tried to carry out his attempted coup in 2021, and insulted a bishop who had the temerity to ask him to follow Christ's teachings and be nice to people. "But what," you might ask, "does this have to do with the price of eggs??" Ah yes, one of the things he campaigned on, saying the prices of eggs and other groceries would come down as soon as he was back in office. Well, you may have noticed that eggs are even more expensive now than they were when Trump was elected, and neither he nor Joe Biden had anything to do with it, because it's almost entirely due to bird flu infecting millions of chickens across the nation, and since any live birds with bird flu can't be used for food and can potentially pass bird flu on to more birds and more chickens and--potentially!--even humans, the only remedy farmers really have is to kill all the infected birds to keep the infection from spreading any further. This happened once before in 2015, when over 50 million chickens were killed to stop the spread of bird flu, and the number of dead birds will probably be even higher this year, since 13 million chickens have already been killed in January alone. Naturally, if you kill that many chickens, you have less chickens that can lay eggs, which increases the prices of all the eggs that do get laid; and you also have to wait while new chickens are hatched that can grow up to lay more eggs, which takes time no matter who's president! The USDA thinks all this means egg proces will finally come back to earth sometime later this year, and Trump will probably claim credit for it even though HE HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT, but when has that ever stopped him before? More chaos next weel, I guarantee it!
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last updated February 2, 2025
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