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JDTexas84 t1_j52rfce wrote

Reply to comment by jaweit in What is going on with egg prices? by [deleted]

Except it wasn’t even actually bird flu. Farmers were instructed to cull their bird flocks on the fear that bird flu might spread. It’s a manufactured inflation

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respaaaaaj t1_j52teag wrote

There are not only dead chickens from this, but dead ducks and Montana just found grizzly bears that have it, this is a public health thing not an economic thing

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runner64 t1_j52wqdt wrote

Also one twitter-famous emu.

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respaaaaaj t1_j52x1sw wrote

Yeah this one is spreading almost entirely by wild birds instead of flock to flock so there's a real risk of it jumping all over the place

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diaryofsnow t1_j52xsgh wrote

the one that sells car insurance?

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IBOstro t1_j53058r wrote

Ah yes the LiMu emu. I will never buy insurance from them specifically because of their advertising.

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wiggywithit t1_j52zqad wrote

The flu, yes that flu, the one that killed 300 million people in early 20th century was a bird flu that mutated and spread to humans.

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