"The amount we could export would not solve their egg shortage," says the head of the Finnish Poultry Association.

Summary

Finland has declined a U.S. request to export eggs amid a severe American shortage caused by bird flu.

The Finnish Poultry Association cited the lack of prior trade agreements and complex regulatory hurdles. Even if exports were possible, Finland’s limited egg production would not significantly impact the U.S. crisis.

Other European nations, including Sweden and Denmark, also face difficulties meeting U.S. demand, while Europe grapples with its own egg shortages.

The U.S. has turned to countries like Turkey and the Netherlands for supplies as bird flu remains a global issue.

  • melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    33·
    21 hours ago

    yeah, it sucks, I wish we had this cheap protein, but, like… americans need to suffer. they need to suffer, and they need to know it’s their leader’s fault.

    • Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      20 hours ago

      The suffering is almost a guarantee, but I’m not holding my breath on anyone that doesn’t already do so holding Trump accountable for shit.

      • melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        2·
        16 hours ago

        unlike the more severe accountable shit like getting people to murder their own children with pox for the cause, the eggs thing is something that allows people to reverse course, and in fact makes it easier. this might genuinely be the largest threat to the regime.

    • Paddzr@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      20 hours ago

      Explain to me like I’m 5… Can we not just stop butchering chickens for few days and get them to lay eggs to “catch” up? Or are those chickens too far removed from normal chickens that they no longer lay eggs?

      • Dojan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        19 hours ago

        They’re being killed because of the avian flu pandemic that’s currently going on. Dead poultry generally doesn’t lay eggs.

        You still have legumes available.

      • houseofleft@slrpnk.netEnglish
        15·
        19 hours ago

        Key thing to bear in mind is that we think of “chicken” as a single animal, but industrial farming has selectively bred chickens into very different camps.

        Meat chickens grow very big very quickly, and are killed for meat long before adulthood. You’d need to pause production a long enough time for them to grow into adulthood, then they would eventually lay eggs, but at a much slower rate than egg chickens, and requiring a lot more food (because of how big they are)

        • melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          31·
          16 hours ago

          plus, the eggs they lay would not be egg chickens. they would be eating chickens. and all of them are dying en masse to the flu.

          and chickens lay whether the eggs are fertilized or not. kinda like how humans menstruate, but, like, much bigger, and we eat it even if we don’t think they’re cute.

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
      111·
      15 hours ago

      They need to know it’s their fault. They elected him, either through action or inaction.

      Then they need to do some introspection to figure out what the fuck is wrong with them.

      But they won’t because America doesn’t do that. 9/11, for example, had nothing to do with anything America had done.