US asks countries to help lower soaring prices of eggs
US asks countries to help lower soaring prices of eggs
[COPENHAGEN] The United States has reached out to Denmark and other European nations asking if they can export eggs as Americans face surging egg prices, the Nordic country’s egg association said on Friday (Mar 14). Read more at The Business Times.
"The United States has reached out to Denmark..."
You know, the country the United States wants to invade and forcefully take land from.
America: The dumbest rocks in the sock drawer.
Denmark: Did you say "please" even once?
Oh, so now the US has pivoted to strongman style diplomacy where you rattle your sabre and then ask for concessions? I've bought a fresh carton of eggs last week, Orange Felon and his tech bro boyfriend can have them projectile delivered straight to their stupid mugs.
What do you mean "now"? This has been standard practice for the past 200 years.
Implement fucking price controls before you beg for European eggs ffs
If there really are not enough eggs, that would just lead to eggs being constantly sold out.
Yeah, good luck with that America after you've insulted and threatened every ally that would sell us eggs.
Dumbasses.
Kneel down and beg.
Good thing we've got so many international allies and are known for being such a stable, reliable economic partner. Now, if you'll excuse me, I haven't read the news in two months and I need to catch up on current events.
Well, in those two months the USA has made new enemies by insulting and threatening with invade his own allies. Worst, the USA started an economic war against his allies for no reason.
So no, now we are not willing to help.
Guess I needed to add an /s to that one.
I would not send a single good egg until Jan 2029.
I'd give Drumph some eggs, if only he would come within range...
Actually I would send them ONE egg, so that they can suck on it.
Why then? It'll just be another corrupt warmonger. Might call themselves a democrat but in the end they still serve evil.
What does it mean the US has reached out? Individual store chains? State governments? Certainly not Trump.
Likely USDA which is under one of his appointees so either way very dumb.
I know right.
Hey we don't want your crap in our country. America first. But while I have you on the phone....
The eggs aren't even that much more expensive to produce. The hit has only been about 2%. There's still plenty of eggs. And it's the same with getting free range eggs instead of battery/cage - the increase in production price is pretty small, really.
It comes down to the same thing: the market charging premiums. They charge more for free range because it's 'luxury'. They charge more for organic because it's 'lifestyle'. And they charge more for eggs during US strife because it's 'supply and demand'.
They have the supply. They also have an excuse, and nobody is regulating them. The country doesn't need to buy eggs en masse, it needs to regulate pricing.
They actually don’t have the supply. The USA is short tens of millions of eggs because of all the hens they had to slaughter due to bird flu. Which RFK probably doesn’t think is real.
Which RFK probably doesn’t think is real.
This is the danger. The conspiracy crowd is already denying bird flu. The culls are evidence of government conspiracy to force us to eat da bugs/fake meat.
We’re going to hit a pandemic which our government will pretend does not exist. The narrative has already been hammered out on Facebook for them.
sounds like socialism to me. allow the invisible hand to work.
If the invisible hand end up yeeting Trump out of the White House, I'm all for it
everything except actually putting the companies responsible in check.
Bird flu talk sounds a little too close to vaccine talk, and farmers vote Republican.
Theirs are the freedoms that we spend lives to protect.
Let me see... since new years you have threatened to annex Greenland, had Musk call our finest astronaut retarded, called our Prime Minister retarded, recently Roger Stone called one of our conservative politicians a sick demented asshole on Twitter when said politician asked for the general secretary of NATO to not joke about Trump and Greenland and... oh yeah, Trump and Vance attacked and insulted our dear friend, President Zelenskyj on world wide TV.
So...... how about no? Oh, I'm sorry: no, thank you.
Hey...just need to put this out there.
I'm sorry my government has the dumb. I am so, so embarrassed by how things are going and how horribly rude my so-called "leaders" are being to literally everyone.
I am not like that. I respect you and your country. I want to cry when I think about how Zelenskyj has been treated. I know many, many people just like me. We are NOT like our government. We are scared. Some of us are trying to get out of the country, but many of us literally cannot...for a host of reasons, many of which involve how little money we have been able to save while this is all happening.
I'm just so sorry. Not that this fixes anything. I'm just desperate to tell SOMEONE that. I hope you have a good day...and rest easier knowing I echo every sentiment of your post.
Ah, don't worry. I do not hold the American people responsible for what has happened to your country. When it comes down to it, the individual American has very little say in what it's government is doing and in my opinion, your government has been very successful in manipulating its population into believing in a very untrue and very romantic image of how America is and how it is perceived in the world at large.
So don't apologize. You can't help where you were born and raised, neither can the rest of the world's population. I cant help that i was born and raised in a country that decided to spy on its european neighbors for America and i would be very annoyed if people online blamed me personally for what some retards in charge have decided to do. If anything, my sympathies goes out to people like you who are trapped in that hellhole. I do hope this is just a very unfortunate stumble in American history and that your country will return to form and eventually evolve socially like I have wished for you for decades.
I will be honest, I have very few nice things to say about America, long before trump even came on my radar. I have despised America for most of my life, but I don't hate all Americans. At all. It's not your fault your country is built on a system that caters to the rich and teaches its people that all things that are good for the people is evil communism while all things good for the 1% is good for everybody. You guys deserves so much better.
America as an institution and a public face on the world scene, however, I have no love for. I never had and I wasn't surprised when it decided to stab us in the back the moment we needed it despite us bleeding money and young men's blood for the American institution for 20 years. I am not surprised that we are being treated this way. It fits perfectly with the American playbook I have witnessed since I was a kid and saw Bush use 911 to invade the middle east and high key sent a message to the rest of us that if we weren't on America's side we would be their enemy. Which is partially why I think we ended up joining you in Iraq and Afghanistan.
But no, I'm not surprised that this is our reward for bleeding for the American institution. Threats of annexing our territory, childish insults to our politicians, abandoning Ukraine and making friends with Russia. America has only ever cared about its own interests while pretending to be the world hero. All trump did was going mask off and that must be a shock to some Americans who believed the American institution was good and selfless.
We get that some Americans voted against all this, and don't support it.
And I hope those reasonable Americans can rescue their country from the situation it has caused for itself.
But for now, as the leadership of the USA is attacking my country, my response has to be to protect my country from the insanity that has taken over America.
I wish you well, and hope you guys can fix your country before it destroys us all.
Didn't their leader said they don't need to rely on other countries?
The fastest way to have a people turn on it's leaders is for the food supply to be threatened.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if Americans turned on their leaders?
Yup. The US is currently deporting a significant portion of it's agricultural workforce, while putting insane tariffs on the countries it imports food from, while also doing major cuts to the government which makes problems like avian flue more likely.
The Trump regime has a very "let them eat cake" approach to the food supply.
while putting insane tariffs on the countries it imports food from
Also on the country they import most of their fertilizer from.
Real "stable genius" moves going on there.
Interesting that the orange traitor flooded CA's farms in response to the recent wildfires, while also threatening undocumented farm workers, while also levying taxes across broad swaths of the economy. Seems to me that he's been instructed on actions to take to raise food prices. Hmm...
Don't forget the whole pretending that bird flu doesn't exist thing.
Ask for 50% mineral rights and a thank you.
OOTL... What's with the thank you meme?
Trump/Vance and Zelensky had a meeting recently where it was ridiculous hostile and mentioned trival things like Zelensky didn't say thank you. I would recommend watching it but it very embarrassing for a "world leader" to be so hostile to a friendly nation.
That's why Zelensky went on x and thank everyone afterwards
FUCK THAT. Let's see eggs go to $5/each. We need to face the consequences of our collective fucking idiot electoral choices.
I'm confused as to why people are still buying eggs. I've gotten on fine without them all my life
Probably mostly restaurants right now.
lol
The Norwegian government will offer eggs, and we will only ask for the state of New York or as we like to call it: Nye Jorvik. The citizens of Nye Jorvik will enjoy all the benefits from a stabile, functioning social democracy.
Please, take me! Take us!
leaps into arms
everyone moves to Nye Jorvik
Can you ask them to throw in New Jersey too?
Sinnsyk fin ide fra en sinnsyk fin bart
Hilarious. The US reaching out to the people they've insulted, threatened or victimized in some way, shape or form and asking them for help. And when they get refused, they'll tell the American people that everyone is being so mean to them.
That's what happens when the country is led by someone who has never faced consequences fir anything
Has America considered asking Panama for eggs? Or Gaza?
I've got a whole sack of eggs I'm selling for cheap, but you gotta extract them yourselves. In fact, I'll even pay you, but then you gotta go after. Don't hang around after.
I'm not kinkshaming, but yeesh, you can do better.
And they all answered "yes, you can eat our eggs, but not how you would expect"
Mexico's got some huevos for the U.S to suck on
UNREAL.
I don't know if it helps anyone, but you don't need eggs to survive
What does it look like when one of the world's superpowers can't even ensure they can provide such a basic thing as eggs to their citizens.
If it was any other country at any other time, I doubt this would even hit the news. But it's the US after refusing vaccinations, losing a bunch of stock to a disease, all whilst claiming the egg prices will be lowered, so here we are.What will I eat with my bacon?!
More bacon.
Perhaps a couple of Lipitor? In my house we've started saving money by substituting Wegovy for eggs in our recipes.
Air delivered eggs from another continent, surely they're going to be cheap. If only there were at least two neighboring countries that could be able to send them for cheaper...
No, fuck you.
Citizen of the United States here. Don’t. Assume whatever this orange anal fistula offers to pay will in fact not be paid. Assume whatever agreement brokered will immediately be ignored or violated. Assume this pus filled clementine will still try to “take” Greenland.
Let this shithole 3rd world country burn. It asked for fascism in the form of egg prices, let them deal with their egg prices.
As a Canadian, the US can have my eggs on the condition of the delivery method being lobbing them over the border at official government buildings.
Ok that’s fair
Also a Yank. At this point we really do deserve the punishment. I just hope that when we get a new administration in a little less than four years the world has a shred of sympathy for us.
Unfortunately Europe can't wait four years for the US to start taking their responsibilities on the world stage seriously again. Russia will almost certainly move within that time, so Europe is now having to build up its defenses in a way that they've never previously had to do since the 1940s. Assuming the US does come around (that is a big "if") by that point Europe will have already got used to using its own military. The US will no longer be required.
I really don't see any way that things can now go back to the way they were. Trade will, but I think the days of cooperative military action are over. If you guys get embroiled in another pointless war in the Middle East, I think you're going to have to do that on your own.
At the moment, you definitely do. Most of you, and not just Trump voters. Why are you guys so fucking passive? Where are the millions of people protesting on the streets? Where's the civil disobedience? The strikes? With the attitude the Americans show currently, there will be no elections in 4 years, hell, there might not even be mid-term elections in 2
I hope that you get a new administration in a little less than 4 years.
The Republicans aren't destroying the rule of law and hand absolute power to the presidency, just to give it to the opposition on the next occasion.
It will only take two years if people actually fucking vote in the midterms. But midterm turnout is historically… Well… Complete dogshit. And republicans are statistically more likely to vote in midterms.
That’s why Trump is moving so fast to try and secure things; He doesn’t truly have four years to cement himself as god-emperor. He only has two before he potentially loses his majority in congress. So he has to be crowned before then.
But even with that being said, I don’t have high hopes. As I said before, republicans are more likely to vote in midterms. Maybe Trump’s antics will be enough to get some blue voters off of their asses. But at this point, I’m not holding my breath.
Maybe it's time for Europe to make a Trump-style "deal" with the US for Ukraine
Do not help us. This is what we deserve.
💯
What's ironic is that from all countries he is asking Denmark. Greenland is An autonomous territory under the kingdom of Denmark.
I heard that before asking Greenland he was asking Canada as well.
Thank you for your sacrifice.
Sincerely,
An egged-up Australian
Change your display name to True Facts
Friendly reminder that eggs aren't a required part of a healthy diet, from your friendly neighborhood vegan!
I'm not even vegan and I've always gotten on fine without eggs
you don't know any one else's dietary needs
Good for you!
Canada here. Our eggs are cheap.
You want em?
Take your trade war agression and shove it up your ass!
You want to take our sovereignty away?
…starve.
<intentionally drops an egg while smiling>
Brb going to throw eggs across the border
Aim for a Tesla
Genuinely, fuck us over as hard as you can.
I know about Type 2 “Sorry”, but there are an absolute shitload of idiots down here who don’t.
For those who don't know, Canada has two types of "Sorry".
The first is "I'm sorry for what I did."
And the second is "I'm sorry for what I'm about to do."
That's the one that usually ends up adding new entries to the Geneva Conventions.
You want eggs? Fucking take em
<proceeds to throw eggs across the border like baseballs>
triple charge for eggs.
Other countries: "No. Thank you." 🤭🤭🤭🖕🖕🖕
You're not wrong, I'm just going to fix something.
Other countries: "No. Thank you." 🤭🖕🤭🖕🤭🖕
Maybe I’m uninformed in these things. But isn’t it super easy to get the supply of eggs increased domestically? Even in a country like India which almost has 1.5 billion people, I’ve never heard about a shortage of eggs.
I think the short supply is due to bird flu, so not really
Ah I see. Thanks for the details.
Well, well, well... if it isn't the consequences of your own actions
as an American
'Request denied', this is an AI response derived from our 'don't give a damn' American Tech programmers.
This is a joke right? Something from the Onion? Why would any country help out Trump now?
Ask Turkiye.
"You will become part of the US."
two days later....
"Bro my egg prices are high, can you help a brotha out?"
Yah, we're going to need you to go fuck yourself.
It's a weird feeling, being what feels like a sane person in an insane country run by insane people. Hearing people tell us to go fuck ourselves when we probably agree with everything they are saying. And really not even blaming them for feeling that way based on the absolute lunatics in charge and how they behave.
Those of us who are sane totally get it.
I thought the US didn’t need anything from anyone else? Isn’t that what you said?
Help? Help? What happened to wanting to be a proud independent country that don't need no allies.
Maybe Russia has some eggs they can lend in these trying times.
I'll take a couple of them Fabergé eggs.
Denmark, from who they want to steal Greenland. They are obviously terminally stupid in Washington.
Friends! Canadians! Countries of unfamiliar spellings! Lend me your eggs!
But don't send me your poor people. .. Unless they are carrying eggs. Then let them come... we'll keep the eggs and send the people back.
This is why we HAD allies. Had. To assist with the largesse we consume as Americans. You don’t get to swing your orange dick around at the world, offending and assaulting every ally, and then ask for help.
That would increase the prices in the exporting countries. It's not as if there's such a huge surfeit that they're being destroyed.
I would love to see NATO countries (besides the US) band together and say:
”We will come together to support our great ally, so long as she saves herself. Upon the acceptance of President Trump's and Vice President Vance's resignation, we will provide the aid that our friend needs."
Trump could, in fact, be the hero here. He could walk away from the presidency with a win. For added measure, these countries could write lofty and wonderful articles about Trump's selflessness.
We know he won't.
Aside: I'm not saying Mike Johnson would make a good president. But let's take this one thing at a time.
Honestly, I love this idea. Why aren't America's former allies calling for the resignation of Trump and Vance? Let the American people know that if they want cheaper eggs, and better trade deals, they're going to have to find a way to get rid of these traitors who have seized power.
"On this trade war that HE started…"
Ok.. but then it’d be truth for once 😅
As a true American, don't help us with eggs, it'l hurt your country in the long run. Let us suffer so we can get our heads out of our asses and purge the nazis.
So Trump can't get it under control. Got it.
Well, he solved it on day one.
On day two, eggs went unexpectedly expensive again. It's not his fault.
America, Fuck You Asshole!
Oh now Trump wants allies?
Recognize the passive voice: "The US has reached out". They don't say Trump reached out or the Trump administration reached out.
I'm not saying we should...
But negative tariffs on eggs coming out of the USA and ridiculous tariffs on eggs going into the USA would tickle my funny bone
OMG yes, have canada subsidize imports of american eggs. that would make me so fucking hot. I'd be out a lot of baked goods for a while, but cannot make myself care. I'll learn to bake vegan or something.
Hear me out - apply a tariff from EU to Canada on eggs (stay with me). Apply a tariff 2X that tariff to the US on eggs imported from Canada. Something something, profit
We'd be helping their industry recover from fuck ups, no thanks
How much do eggs cost at the moment?
At costco by me, you can get 24 eggs for 9 dollars. At the regular grocery store you can get 12 for 6. I think the bigger impact is any product that has eggs in it has jacked up the price to a ridiculous extent, beyond what the shortage would require.
So 30-50¢ each.
Doesn't sound that bad.
This is pretty much right. Just wanted to say that we deadass saw a small grocer selling loosies for a dollar about a month ago here in central Cali.
Thanks for your explanation and greetings!
South East on March 4th. Don't know if they've come down since then. Others reports seem lower than this.
Hold the line Denmark. Don't pull a fucking Australia. Fuck those guys.
No - Bugs Bunny.
Lay your own eggs, turkey looking cunt.
If we did, we couldn’t import them and charge a tariff to bleed our people dry one egg at a time until they are broke and slaves on the corporate plantation.
Jive ass turkey looking cunt
European nations, please say that you will export eggs only when the idiots are out of power.
Meanwhile, the egg department in my grocery store is absolutely full not a single carton sold.
Nobody's paying eight bucks for a carton they can rot.
Meanwhile I bought a pack of chicken breasts at 267 a pound which is the normal price.
There's no shortage of chickens, there's no shortage of eggs
Capitalism artificially creates scarcity (or the illusion of scarcity) to generate capital.
Price collusion and greed
I'm not suggesting that corporations aren't inflating prices, but your chicken breasts come from birds which are slaughtered pretty young, as opposed to egg layers so there is a much larger window to be infected.
HPAI A(H5) or A(H7) virus infections can cause disease that affects multiple internal organs with mortality up to 90% to 100% in chickens, often within 48 hours.
They're not that young :)
If there were any empty shelves, I'd buy it. I should have taken a picture. Nobody is buying any eggs. The price should have ridden that wave, there should be almost no eggs on the shelf, priced at the maximum that pushes product without quite selling out.
There were thousands of eggs there.
In covid we ran out of toilet paper, it wasn't 8x the price on the shelf. Those eggs on the shelves are weeks old now.
They are not the same birds. Layers are older birds then the meat birds. So yes the laying hens could be wiped out well the meat birds are not.
So, to be clear, you're claiming that meat birds are not wiped out by the flu and there's a vast shortage of laying hens, while the markets are absolutely overflowing with eggs?
that math doesn't math.
If eggs are $8 a pack (I'm assuming that's a pack of six), then there is no way that imports would be any better even if they weren't tariffed. The average price of eggs in the UK comes out at the equivalent of around $1-3 per pack of 6, so unless you can internationally ship them for $4 or less, it's not going to make any difference.
Every store I've been in for months is absolutely full of eggs. No one will buy them. If having too many eggs on the shelf lowers prices we'd already be there.
This is just him trying to find a way to not have everyone quite so mad at him.
Is this some kind of sick joke?? Get fucked.
Oh? I was under the impression you didn't need us lesser and grifter nations? That we took you for a ride?
Hm... I propose a fair trade - you might even call it "the best deal ever". Our eggs, for your cards.
Wait, I forgot. Your cards lost their value recently, as they couldn't do shit for Ukraine against our common enemy.
Hi, please don't. Let us suffer so these fuckers can hurt more. - Californian
Get bent, United States!
I fucking hate living in the US. It's embarrassing.
Americas chickens coming home to roost
They did that on 9-11. Out of a plane full of Saudis and two Iraqis, look how that is still turning out.
Time to educate Trump in the fine art of export tariffs.
charge us more, seriously
Oh, we can all egg you.
Iraq: has oil
Murca: we declare a freedom on you!
Canada: has oil
Murca: we declare a freedom on you!
Denmark: has eggs
Murca: we declare a freedom on you!
A simple "Fuck off America" would suffice
Non
Non
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Eggs are being seized at the border and destroyed
Get on your knees and beg, donny.
And don't you dare to forget wear a very nice suit and say thank you to everyone you see.
only if you kick russia out of Ukraine.
The world: How much are your eggs?
Trump: $100
The world: Sure we'll help... that will be $99.
I propose a deal. It could be known as the best deal ever! The US ramps up support of Ukraine, so they can finally beat Russia and get peace. Then invite Ukraine into NATO. This also forms a buffer for Europe against Russia. Then Europe will send you all the eggs you need, for free.
Oh nooo, won't someone think of poor America.
😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆👍
Hah! Get wrecked, cunt!
Rest of the world: “No”
We'll help out, but it will take some weeks. Those eggs don't become rotten in a day.
It sucks that this is happening.
Food staples becoming a cost-prohibitive thing, regardless of who's elected, is extraordinarily bad. I wish people could get past their reflexive need to point fingers and root for the other team to fail over this, because I'd think that wanting people to be able to eat is something we could all agree on.
I'm not rooting for the other team to fail. I live here.
let the american trash suffer. it's the only thing americans even approach understanding. they cannot comprehend consequences in the future, cannot remember the past. only those that are happening right now. better this now than something worse later.
Unfortunately things need to get bad enough that Trump loses his base or we'll be stuck in this shit forever. Best just to bite the bullet and brace for the shitty hopefully short term until he pushes the wrong person and everything comes crashing down on him. It's the only way forward that may actually result in improvement as far as I can see.
The MEGA crowd only cares about themselves, it's unfortunate that normal people have to suffer but the only way to snap them out of their brainwashed state, is to force them day, after day, after day, after day, to suffer the consequences of their own idiot decisions. That means long-term economic hardship for Americans as a direct result of Trump's actions.
Many have already lost their jobs because it turns out that they are "The Waste", and +5 Trump districts are now booing their own representatives in town halls, so maybe that realization will come sooner than later.
I'd think that wanting people to be able to eat is something we could all agree on.
Nazis deserve the slowest and most painful starvation possible, so we most certainly do not all agree on that
Republican voters are not Nazis.
What they are is desperate, because they spent the last three years being rendered significantly poorer and Democrats didn't do anything meaningful about it, and in fact, doubled-down on it in the campaign and unironically told people they should be joyful. (Like a bunch of fucking idiots.)
Further, your point makes no sense because these economic impacts hit everyone, not just the people you dislike. Logically you're cheering for your own house to be burned down because there's a spider in it. It's completely unreasonable.
Let the MAGATs starve.
You sound a whole lot like a Democrat when faced with voting to enrich the wealthy versus funding free school lunches.
