More than 20 million egg-laying chickens in the U.S. died last quarter, federal data shows.
  • tree_frog@lemm.eeEnglish
    291·
    2 days ago

    We call it factory farming, which is different than ranching. You pack thousands of chickens into a giant warehouse together.

    Vaccines don’t do much in an environment like that. And the federal government is being gutted by Nazis currently so that doesn’t help.

    • Lazylazycat@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 days ago

      Yeah that’s bleak, although we do have factory farms here too. Perhaps it’s just the scale of it in the US.

    • Tikiporch@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      I get that, but eggs aren’t a commodity yet non factory farmed egg prices are also soaring.

      This. Is. Greed.

      • tree_frog@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        11 hours ago

        I’ve been paying the same price for local free-range eggs for four years.

        But yes, the egg cartels and large grocery stores are fixing the prices too. Better to not buy from folks like that rather than supporting their oligopoly.