The craziest thing about egg prices is that Donald J. Trump is in the Epstein files.
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How much were eggs on Epstein's island?
Don't look over here (Epstein files), look over there (eggs)!
For anyone who doesn't know, a factory farm is not a farm, it's a factory. The industry calls them, "Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations" or CAFOs. They house the animals in the smallest possible space, the highest "concentration", to increase yield per square meter and reduce exercise to maximize growth. They are not designed or regulated to treat the animals humanely, they are designed to get the most profit for the least amount of investment.
Prop 2 was on the ballot the first election I could vote in. We voted for better living conditions for animals, Obama to be president, and also constitutionally banned gay marriage all in one election.
I'm fairly sure that California having cage-size mandates does the opposite of driving up egg prices outside California.
They'll drive up California egg prices, sure. But California egg prices have been higher than egg prices outside California. That's because it's not legal to sell eggs produced in other states if the producer there doesn't produce to California's requirements, which eliminates California consumers as competition for those eggs. If you have a shortage in California production
as happened earlier
what happens is that prices in California go much more expensive, but prices outside California don't rise as much as they otherwise would, because California consumers aren't competing for the available supply.
California's cage-size mandates may be a bad idea for California egg consumers, but they shouldn't be driving up prices outside of California a la the Trump administration's claims.
I suppose maybe it's a media strategy, the aim being to fix the idea that it is California's fault in the minds of people elsewhere.
How dare you use math and statistics the way they're mean to be used. I'm going to anagram the word used and retroactively sue you. You're sued!
Lots of people outside of California are actually deeply jealous, don't want to admit it, and there is an entire industry around bashing California and Californians as a result.
I think Bill Maher is right - a whole lot of Americans want to be Californians.
I suppose maybe it's a media strategy, the aim being to fix the idea that it is California's fault in the minds of people elsewhere.
It's a media strategy, all right. Only the aim is simply trying to distract you from the Epstein files.
I'm pretty sure the avian flu outbreaks have had a much more significant impact on the price of eggs than any state regulations. I suppose they'll try to blame California for that, too.
It's probably driving up the average national price, purely from a statistical standpoint, even if it doesn't actually affect the price outside of California, it just makes the numbers look bad, which The Dipshit finds personally offensive
Republicans will do anything but acknowledge Bird Flu
Or that Trump is in the Epstein Files.
“It is one thing if California passes laws that affects its own State, it is another when those laws affect other States in violation of the U.S. Constitution,” Rollins said.
The absolute hypocrisy. From the party that happily allows one state sue a doctor in another state for violating their anti-choice doctrine.
Because you can only raise chickens in California. 🙄
Anything to distract from Epstein, eh?
Well his previous strategy of continually whining about how everyone keeps talking about Epstein, while saying really damning offhanded comments about the subject wasn't working very well...
He really is getting desperate. He already admitted that he actually is on the Epstein list by claiming that any entry mentioning him must be forged...
Also, inflation is creeping up and blaming California gets the base excited
Newsom has become Donald’s replacement for Trudeau. He feels deeply insecure around handsome men. He desperately doesnt want to chance it again that another man standing beside Melania making him look like the live-in dawdling grandpa in diapers they are trying to convince to go into a home.
Huh i always thought the neoliberal Republican party was in favor of the free market. Why don't other states simply support their local egg producers and sell cheaper eggs from unhealthy chickens
What they claim and what they actually support has always been different. They hate the free market. They want to pick the winners, and fill their own pockets.
It's fine if they're hiking prices for profit and to screw the average consumer. It's an issue if they raise prices to support a "woke agenda". The problem is the prices are being raised to better the lives of the chickens and Republicans hate that.
Trump should focus on Ohio instead:
But that would mean the severely gerrymandered Republican supermajority did something wrong. Can't blame libruls for shit Ohio did.
Nobody wants to talk about Ohio
"See! It has nothing to do with the tariff wars I caused." - President TACO
I will never understand the economics of MAGA and how they interpret data. Its always totally illogical.
That's the point. Stop trying to understand it
Dear California,
The artillery goes here.
That's not mar a lago
I looked it up just for the heck of it and learned he has a fucking street named after him near it. 🤮 Hope I live to see all these places named after neo Hitler changed back.
Unconstitutional? WTAF.
Nobody tell him that egg prices dropped dramatically in March and have stayed down, I guess
The most straightforward way to keep egg prices low is to have chickens. Since not everyone in D.C. has the space for chickens let's rip out that patio in the Rose Garden and put like a hundred of the fuckers in there.
At this point, everyone in the capitol are chickens, but I don't want their eggs...
But then it would smell like bird shit outside the oval office as well.
It's absolutely insane that people can't keep well maintained animals on their own property when just anyone can have uneutered cats and dogs, exotic bird, pigeons, rats and even cockroaches. A city nearby has voters opposing urban chickens because:
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They don't want their kids to see chickens getting butchered next door.
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The roosters will be loud and wake everyone up.
Meanwhile my neighbour's car alarm goes off three times a day and the dog barks all night.
My city deals with that by limiting the number of hens (to such a small amount I don't think it's worth trying to do meat birds) and completely disallowing roosters.
I'm OK with these restrictions, I don't want to deal with a whole chicken farm on 1/8 acre next door and fuuuuuuck roosters.
Interestingly, we are allowed to have goats but you must have two or three, because apparently goats are so social they need thier own kind or they get depressed
Totally, regulations are key. I'm not advocating for an Ace Ventura situation.
Where I used to live allowed urban chickens, too. There was a rooster who kept escaping into the lane right when I left for work. He was suicidal because he kept trying to get me to run him over.
Not all breeds have loud roosters, I found out, and with traffic and schools nearby I never really heard them.
lol, probably not suicidal, that bastard thought he could fight your car and win
There's a dog breeder in the town I live in who has so many dogs in such a small house the town passed a blanket ban on dog breeding within city limits due to the rank smell eminating from his house. I feel bad for him, but he wasn't managing his externalities and ultimately he made his own bed
This argument will never hold up in court. The same measures that ensure animals are well treated, will often prevent the spread of diseases. Those inhumane production methods they are advocating, very often lead to higher transmission rates among captive bird populations.
It doesn't matter. This is all about optics and red meat for the base. Trump can't do anything for the egg prices, so he needs to find a scapegoat. He can now point out that his administration is taking concrete actions to address the egg prices. Scratch the surface and the whole thing crumbles. But that's the case for most of the Trump cinematic universe.
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He will sue you!!
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