• Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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    4 hours ago

    The USA has high egg prices because they have built a system that is not only extremely vulnerable to diseases, but is also extremely effective at generating new ones. They build ranches of horrifying cruelty with millions of individuals. (The average ranch size in Canada is about 30k.) When one gets sick, the whole million plus flock of individuals are slaughtered. Meanwhile, the USA is a huge global viral reservoir and multiplying reactor, putting not only other agricultural populations at risk, but the entire fucking human race when this inevitably jumps to humans. So hard to be sympathetic that this is costing your daily needless cruelty a few cents more.