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Egg Prices Are Getting Scary

BIRD FLU JACKS CONSUMER COSTS … || By FITSNEWS || A dozen eggs could soon cost upwards of $6.00 – the result of a massive outbreak of avian influenza that’s affected more than 48 million birds.  The big, bad bird flu outbreak has self-contained over the last two months, but…

BIRD FLU JACKS CONSUMER COSTS …

|| By FITSNEWS || A dozen eggs could soon cost upwards of $6.00 – the result of a massive outbreak of avian influenza that’s affected more than 48 million birds.  The big, bad bird flu outbreak has self-contained over the last two months, but birds are about to begin their seasonal migration – meaning another outbreak could be in the works.

Meanwhile the initial exposure – which dramatically reduced the nation’s supply of eggs – continues to wreak havoc on consumer prices.

According to NBC, “Midwest wholesale prices have risen 135 percent to $2.80 per dozen on Monday, up from $1.19 per dozen on April 22.”  Retail prices are even higher.  Turkeys have been especially hard hit – to the tune of 10 million infected birds.

America has the world’s largest poultry market – ranking No. 1 nationally in turkey meat and chicken meat and second only to China in terms of the number of eggs produced.  Oh, and turkey and chicken are South Carolina’s top two agricultural exports.

So far the Palmetto State has avoided the outbreak – which has been concentrated in the Midwest and along the Pacific coastline.  In fact here’s the latest bird flu map courtesy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) …

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Yikes, Iowa …

Looks like 2016 presidential candidates had better brush up on this subject.  We already know how important the “price of milk” question is … could eggs be the “bread and butter” issue in 2016?

Sheesh … all this talk of food is making us hungry.

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43 comments

Terry August 5, 2015 at 1:23 pm

What is Nikki doing to stop the bird flu from coming here?. What is her plan? We have an inept governor. I guess she is too busy trying to line up a speaking engagement for the convention.

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Nölff August 5, 2015 at 1:39 pm

She’s ignoring America’s poultry market and breakfasts for our children. I won’t stand for it.

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TroubleBaby August 5, 2015 at 1:40 pm

” I won’t stand for it.”

Neither will I, but I’m not standing until I finish my chicken & waffles.

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Gross Me Out August 5, 2015 at 2:31 pm

I still can’t believe people actually eat chicken and waffles on a regular, or even irregular, basis.

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TroubleBaby August 5, 2015 at 2:51 pm

lol..it’s really not my bag, but it fit with the joke.

I’m normally a steak and eggs guy with sliced tomatoes on the side(waffle house).

Tazmaniac August 5, 2015 at 3:45 pm

WooHoo!!! My absolute favorite!

Bawk! Bawk! August 5, 2015 at 1:37 pm

Grand Tango & flip aren’t worried about the rising cost of eggs, they can lay their own.

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Different Kind of Brown Egg August 5, 2015 at 2:30 pm

Not sure you can call those eggs, but they lay them all the time here, that’s for sure.

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Slartibartfast August 5, 2015 at 1:43 pm

The actual increase in the price of chicken eggs is the perfect reflection of the stagflation America has been experiencing since summer 2009. Frankly, I’m glad I have a daughter-in-law who threatens her father’s free-range chickens on my behalf, as the eggs cost me less and actually taste like eggs, unlike Eggland’s Best, or any of the other big box brand eggs.

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SCBlues August 6, 2015 at 6:18 am

So Obama stopped fucking the hens causing the price of eggs to go up??? Squawk!

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Centrist View August 5, 2015 at 1:55 pm

Maybe the 4+ young ‘uns in the Folks household will develop a taste for tofu.

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shifty henry August 6, 2015 at 1:41 am

A woman’s teenaged babysitter visited her in the maternity ward. “I can hardly believe it, Mrs. Jones — triplets — how wonderful!”

“Yes, it is, Sally,” replied the proud mother, “And did you know that triplets only happen once every 4,657,842 times?”

“4,657,842 times?” Sally gasped with amazement. “When did you ever find time to clean the house?”

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Flip August 5, 2015 at 2:10 pm

Thank goodness us dodo birds are immune! LMAO!!! LMAO!!!

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sparklecity August 5, 2015 at 2:11 pm

That’s just one more thing the right wingnuts can blame “Obammer” for!!!!!

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Daniel Boome August 5, 2015 at 2:24 pm

You said it, so it must be true.

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SCBlues August 5, 2015 at 2:43 pm

“That’s just one more thing the right wingnuts can blame “Obammer” for!!!!!”
LOL These fools in the SC Republican Ghetto have nothing to do but squawk about The President. Remember before he was elected and then re-elected they were all on here squawking away that he’d never be elected! LOL And 2016 is gonna be the same way!

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Why the chicken crossed the Rd August 5, 2015 at 7:16 pm

Think we know what happened to GrandTango. Avian Flu is sexually transmitted, right?

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shifty henry August 5, 2015 at 10:11 pm

Quotes from various authorities on the question, “Why did the chicken cross the road?”

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Al Gore: “ He never made it. With all the
global warming, he was fried as soon as he hit the hot asphalt”.

George Bush: “ I would like to unconfusicate the public about this. The chicken was in Iraq and he was crossing the road to escape weapons of mass destruction.”

Dick Cheney: “Because he’s just trying to trick me into shooting another one of my friends in the face.”

Darth Vader: “Because it couldn’t resist the power of the dark side.”

Donald Trump: “Chicken? Chicken? That reminds me, I have to start working on my comb-over.”

Donald Trump(again): “How about I tear up the road and kill the chicken? Problem solved.”

Donald Trump (again): “Hey, a toll road there would make a killing.”

Albert Einstein: “The chicken didn’t necessarily cross the road; the road could be said to have moved laterally under the
chicken.”

RalphNader: “The instances of chickens crossing roads are blown out of all proportion so that auto companies can foist their expensive and unnecessary chicken-avoidance-system off on the public.”

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SYNTwist August 5, 2015 at 10:18 pm

LOL!

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shifty henry August 5, 2015 at 10:20 pm

Thanks, share them…. I couldn’t resist the set-ups here tonight!

SYNTwist August 5, 2015 at 10:39 pm

I haven’t seen much of it, but I can imagine. You have a great sense of humor!

shifty henry August 5, 2015 at 10:47 pm

A chicken goes to a telegraph office. On the form, the chicken fills out, “cackle,
cackle, cackle, cackle, cackle, cackle, cackle, cackle, cackle”

The clerk takes a look at the form and says, “You’ve only filled in nine words here. You’re entitled to another ‘cackle’ for the same price.”

The chicken answers, “But then it wouldn’t make any sense.”

CorruptionInColumbia August 6, 2015 at 3:41 am

… Southern Motorist: “… to show the squirrel, the possum, and the armadillo, that it really could be done.”

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E Norma Scok August 5, 2015 at 3:37 pm

I had an egg about a month ago. I guess I better cut back.

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Tazmaniac August 5, 2015 at 3:44 pm

Really? What about products with eggs as a ingredient? I love/live off eggs, a holdover from my bachelor past. I think eggs are currently officially good for you, but that can always change.

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E Norma Scok August 5, 2015 at 3:53 pm

What all has eggs in it? of the top of my head i can think of is mayo, cakes/pastries, and some pasta..but what else? I don’t (and shouldn’t!) eat much of those either. Its kind of like the price of milk going up. I just don’t care.

Now if beer skyrockets, we have a problem.

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Victorious Secret August 5, 2015 at 3:40 pm

Well, let them eat cake.

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It ain't hard August 5, 2015 at 7:17 pm

Just buy a couple of chickens.

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shifty henry August 5, 2015 at 9:54 pm

Which brings up the question: Why does a chicken coop have two doors?—–Because if it had four doors it would be a chicken sedan.

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CorruptionInColumbia August 5, 2015 at 7:22 pm

Pick up line:

“How do you like your eggs dear; fried, scrambled, or fertilized?”

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shifty henry August 5, 2015 at 10:39 pm

… very clever one!

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SYNTwist August 5, 2015 at 10:41 pm

Too funny! I know someone that actually seeks out the FERTILIZED eggs. There is just something wrong with an egg that has blood….;)

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SCBlues August 6, 2015 at 6:24 am

Sunni side up – and don’t give me no Shia about it either!

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CorruptionInColumbia August 6, 2015 at 7:49 am

LOL!!! Good one, Blues!!!!

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TroubleBaby August 6, 2015 at 8:55 am Reply
erneba August 5, 2015 at 7:45 pm

“avian influenza”
I will have to get my chickens to the clinic for their flu shots.
Do the birds cough and blow their noses when they catch it.

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shifty henry August 5, 2015 at 9:50 pm

Q: What’s the difference between bird flu and swine flu?
A: If you have bird flu, you need tweetment. If you have swine flu, you need oink-ment.
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Q: What do you call a pig with a rash?
A: Ham and Eczema
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Q: What do you call it when you cross a dinosaur and a pig?
A: Jurassic pork!
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Q: What do you get when you cross a
pig and a centipede?
A: Bacon and Legs.

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Limbaughsaphatkhunt August 5, 2015 at 8:18 pm

All that pesky gov’t “over-site” and “regulation” that stifles the free market is responsible for this right Fits?

Who needs independent inspectors to ensure health codes and standards at poultry plants? Self policing industry will take care of it….as you pay $6.00 a dozen. Be sure to thank the Tea Party for increasing egg prices and your chances of catching a deadly flu strain.

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9" August 6, 2015 at 9:00 am

Can the eggs still be used as lube ?

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ImpaledNazarene August 11, 2015 at 2:40 am

It will cost more than $6.00 if sanders gets elected as president. All that $15/hr wage will have to be made up somehow.

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Quanell Jones August 17, 2015 at 7:05 pm

FUKK DEM GOD DAM EGGS! GOTS ME PLENNY O WINE, JESS SENDS ME A HO’ OUT TO FUKK A FARMER ANN GOTS ALL DA EGGS I WANTS FO FREE…SEND YO LAZY WIFES OUT ANN DEY CAN GIVE HEAD FOR EGGS!!

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HOCKEYSTAINS September 6, 2015 at 11:01 am

Fuck off SPOOK.

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