by Wolf Bird » Mon Aug 10, '15, 2:00 pm
The reason this is happening is an outbreak of a nasty strain of avian flu. If a farmer has one infected bird, he has to slaughter his entire flock due to how easily it spreads, and how easily it could mutate to infect humans should they eat infected eggs. Fewer egg producing birds = fewer eggs = more expensive eggs, as farmers attempt to recover massive losses. This isn't about farmer greed as some highly uninformed commenters on that article claim, this is about basic economics and farmers trying to keep their livelihood in the face of disaster for them.
This is a risk of factory farming - as economically efficient as it is and as much food as it produces cheaply, when something comes along to mess it up it ripples through everything. You pack millions of birds together tightly, if an infection hits, it will spread like wildfire and the products they produce will have skyrocketing market prices. We try to mitigate it by giving farm animals low doses of antibiotics in their feed, but that does nothing for viruses and brings its own set of problems (well, hello there MRSA and other antibiotic resistant infections).
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