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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.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 hours ago

what happened on the ninth of november?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Consider the 🥜

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

of course lemmy suggests beans.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

clever gambit. how long were you vegan to pull this off with deniability? will you go back to meat, or stay under cover?

it's not the worst reason to go vegan. I've done stranger things for a bit.