Which Comes First, The Tariff Or The Egg? – CleanTechnica

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Most Americans know nothing about bird flu, a disease that has infected many of the egg farms in the nation and caused millions of birds to be killed. On Long Island, one of the largest duck farms in the US had to slaughter nearly 100,000 of its ducks, which caused all its employees to be laid off and threatened the continued existence of a business that has survived for three generations. A classically trained economist will tell you that when supply goes down, prices go up, and that is exactly what is happening in America today. The reason most America are not aware of bird flu is because their Dear Leader and his senior henchman have shut down most of the health organizations at the federal level and ordered them to keep any bad news away from the citizens of the country. To paraphrase one former president not known for his mental acuity, “You’re doing a heckuva job, Donny!”

All Americans know is that eggs now cost about a dollar apiece. Long gone are the days of the 99 cent “two egg, home fries, and toast” breakfast special at the local Chat N Chew. But fear not, people. Dumb Donald has declared a national egg emergency to go along with his mythical national energy emergency. According to the New York Times, he plans to import eggs from Turkey — no, not turkey eggs; eggs from Turkish chickens. Pay attention! Presumably he will order LNG tanker converted to egg-carrying duty so America can once again exercise their God given right to eat cheep cheap eggs. So fear not, America. Rather than doing anything about bird flu, your federal government is hard at work trying to cover up this eggstremely serious crisis and keep Americans fat, dumb, and happy while the oligarchs ram through yet another gigantic tax cut for themselves that Americans will still be paying for in 2079.

The Egg & The Vaccine

One of the ways of dealing with bird flu is to develop vaccines for poultry that will protect them from the disease. According to the Times, several countries are vaccinating their flocks and some of those countries may export eggs to the US. But will Americans eat eggs from vaccinated chickens? The nation’s highest health official, the one with the dead worm in his brain, is vehemently opposed to vaccines. He and his acolytes worry that vaccines contain unidentified components that allow the Deep State to control the thoughts of those who allow themselves to be injected with such scary substances. As Colonel Bat Guano warned us in Dr. Strangelove, “We must preserve our precious bodily fluids,” a warning RFK, Jr. has fully embraced.

Clearly, right-thinking Americans would never eat an egg from a vaccinated chicken because the government control molecules in the vaccine are obviously transferred to the eggs and then on to the person who eats them. In all likelihood, this is all a sinister plot by George Soros to indirectly get those scary vaccines into American bodies, even if he cannot do so directly.

Bruce Babcock, an agricultural economist and professor at the University of California, Riverside, told the New Yolk Times the United States will need to import a significant number of eggs to bring down prices. “If you really want to lower prices and use imports to do it, you need to bring in more like a billion eggs.” The Egg Producers Central Union in Turkey recently announced that it would export 420 million eggs to the United States this year. That is equivalent to the number of eggs produced in the United States in about a day and half, according to the latest estimate from the Agriculture Department. Sourcing from overseas may also prove challenging if foreign countries do not have a surplus of eggs ready to export. Mr. Babcock said that “by the time that another country expands production to export to the U.S., hopefully bird flu will stop its destruction on the market and it won’t make sense to import eggs anymore.”

Farm birds are already vaccinated against infectious poultry diseases, such as fowlpox. But an avian influenza vaccination program would be a complex undertaking, and poultry trade associations are divided over the idea, in part because it might spawn trade restrictions that could destroy the American poultry export industry, which is valued at $6 billion a year. Dr. Carol Cardona, an expert on avian health at the University of Minnesota, said that the fear of trade bans was a huge barrier to the mass vaccination of poultry. “This is the undeclared war — trade,” Dr. Cardona said. “Eggs are a disaster,” the puppet president moaned during a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday. Yes they are, and they are a disaster that is happening on his watch, a fact that Americans searching for people to blame for the high cost of omelets will surely notice.

Experts have noted that the overall plan to address bird flu has little to say about containing avian flu in cattle. The disease has now reached nearly 1,000 herds in 17 states. Most recently, herds have been infected with a new version of the virus that has caused severe symptoms in several individuals and the only bird flu death in the United States. “Part of the reason for high egg prices is actually what’s happening in dairy cattle,” said Anice C. Lowen, an influenza virologist at Emory University.

The Tariff Scam Rears Its Ugly Head

The people in the current administration are running around like their hair is on fire, threatening to slap tariffs on everything being imported into the US. Will those tariffs also apply to eggs? If so, the administration will be faced with managing the idiocy of its own trade policy and wind up with egg on its face. Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel prize winning economist, told The Guardian this week that those tariff threats have made the US “a scary place to invest” and may unleash stagflation. “It risks the worst of all possible worlds: a kind of stagflation,” Stiglitz said. He argued that despite optimism about the US economy at the turn of the year, the uncertainty created by Trump’s on-off tariff plans and the president’s apparent contempt for the rule of law would deter investment. “If you’re a corporate in the US or in Europe, do you think you have a global market, or do you have just a European market? Where do you locate your factories?” he asked.

Stiglitz highlighted Elon Musk’s efforts to slash government departments without congressional authority, and Trump’s disregard for contracts — including the trade pact he struck with Canada and Mexico in his first term — among damaging signals for investors considering the US as a destination. “The government has a huge number of contracts and we’re just tearing them up. How much risk do you want? The US has become, I would say, a scary place to invest.” He argued that the uncertainty created by the wildly absurd talk of tariffs was likely to slow economic growth and drive up inflation.

So we are left with a contradiction. On one hand, we have the so-called president threatening tariffs on all sorts of important things like aluminum and steel. On the other hand, he wants to import billions of eggs duty-free. Does anyone see the inconsistency here? In an ordered society, rules are supposed to be applied equally and fairly, but in MAGAmerica, they can be applied arbitrarily and capriciously to benefit big donors but not ordinary citizens. That really speaks volumes about what is happening in the country today. It is a “heads we win, tails you lose” situation where the wealthiest get wealthier and the rest of us get our civil rights and Medicaid programs put on the chopping block to make room in the federal budget for more giveaways to the rich. The only question is, why are so many cheering for this mass insanity? The answer is, you asked for it, and boy howdy, are you ever going to get it!