alt Hacker NewsI did not realize the egg crisis was found to be price fixing operation.
As I recall during the whole thing the news was non-stop about how it was related to broad-based inflation, chicken culling for avian flu, etc. Seems like all that was a lie, or at least merely a half-truth.
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pests • today at 7:17 PM
Back then I had done the math on how long it takes to turn around a commercial chicken coop after a complete full. The timeline from egg to fully producing hen was quicker than I thought, and it seemed they should have been able to keep up the replacement rates.
kevmo • today at 5:59 PM
The US economy is jampacked with collusion price fixing. Most markets are controlled by monopolies or oligopolies.
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JKCalhoun • today at 6:49 PM
It was 100% due to Biden.
(Or so I was told. Might even be the reason we have Trump 2.0?)
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Never let a good crisis go to waste, or so the saying goes.
The consolidation of food production in the US is a risk to us all.