It is Biden’s “fault”, in that testing for bird flu requires farmers to cull chickens (many of which would test negative) in order to stop the spread of the disease. This would result in an egg shortage, and therefore a price increase. This is unfortunate for egg prices, but is necessary to protect the egg supply long term and to ensure the bird flu doesn’t jump to humans and kill us all. But Biden didn’t order this, so much as he simply allowed existing government agencies to do their jobs.
Additionally, we should give the Biden admin credit for increasing the power of the FTC to investigate more possible instances of collusion and price fixing, like what may have happened with eggs.
If Trump stops bird flu testing, we would very much expect egg prices to come down - at the expense of allowing bird flu to run rampant.
It is Biden’s “fault”, in that testing for bird flu requires farmers to cull chickens (many of which would test negative) in order to stop the spread of the disease. This would result in an egg shortage, and therefore a price increase. This is unfortunate for egg prices, but is necessary to protect the egg supply long term and to ensure the bird flu doesn’t jump to humans and kill us all. But Biden didn’t order this, so much as he simply allowed existing government agencies to do their jobs.
Additionally, we should give the Biden admin credit for increasing the power of the FTC to investigate more possible instances of collusion and price fixing, like what may have happened with eggs.
If Trump stops bird flu testing, we would very much expect egg prices to come down - at the expense of allowing bird flu to run rampant.