"The amount we could export would not solve their egg shortage," says the head of the Finnish Poultry Association.

Summary

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.

  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
    10·
    59 minutes ago

    Seems strange to give eggs to a country who talks of just taking over countries left and right.

    Maybe rotten eggs would be more suitable.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1822·
    3 hours ago

    Nobody should send us eggs. Nobody should give us anything, given the government we have now

    Orangeboi wants transactional, so give him transactional. Hold the US state department over the barrel as long as you can. Hold our feet to the fire. Make the negotiations as torturous and hostile as possible. Squeeze us until you see blood. Get absolutely everything you can out of any “deal” you make with us - it’s the “art of the deal”, after all.

    There are huge swaths of Americans and political leadership that now really need to find out, because they’ve been fucking around and ruining things for far too long.

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    2 hours ago

    Egg prices aren’t high solely because of bird flu. They’re high because of regional monopolies and a price fixing cartel. The largest egg producers are seeing record profits.

    I hope it’s clear that I’m not saying bird flu doesn’t exist or affect prices. I’m not much of a conspiracy theorist. But if I had to guess, I’d say it’s 10% bird flu and 90% companies raising prices in unison because they can blame bird flu. If it were just bird flu, the companies would be losing money.

    NB: it feels very weird to call them “egg producers” because hens are the actual egg producers. Egg distributors, maybe? In any case, the distributors are doing fine and their only competition in most regions are small, organic farms whose eggs were already $7 a dozen. It’s just the low end of the market that’s gone crazy.

  • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caEnglish
    321·
    2 hours ago

    Every country should avoid doing business with Trump’s regime because he will screw you over either way.

    • faythofdragons@slrpnk.netEnglish
      13·
      2 hours ago

      Trump still owes my county from his 2016 campaign. He rented out the fairgrounds for a rally and never paid up.

      • Hawke@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        1 hour ago

        Your county officials made an unofficial donation to the trump campaign in 2016, is what actually happened.

  • boaratio@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    29 minutes ago

    The part that kills me about all this is that there is a bird flu vaccine, but US poultry farmers aren’t allowed to use it because then we couldn’t export eggs to other countries. There was a really good CBS Sunday Morning segment about this.

  • BoofStroke@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    411·
    3 hours ago

    If only there were regulations that kept these diseases at bay. Certainly our corporate farms will always spend the money and effort to prevent things themselves though.

    • tehWrapper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      291·
      3 hours ago

      Not sure if it’s true but I read some place that because America has fewer and much larger farms it affects more birds on a farm. In Canada we have smaller (compared to us) size farms and more of them. Meaning a farm losing all its birds does not hit us as hard.

      Distributed Birding. 🐔

      • chingadera@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        48 minutes ago

        Lol that sounds like it’s reasonable and profitable in the long term, get it the fuck out of here.

        We need to maximize this next quarter because, well, we’re not really sure but it better be maximized. We understand that we could have a stress free, guaranteed profitable business five years from now but we really really need to just squeeze this fucker for everything it’s worth right now.

        Money. Now.

        Less money, but now. Less logic now. Everything now, like right fucking now. We still don’t understand why we’re doing this, it could very well be categorized as a mental illness, the way that we absolutely on purpose cause a shit load of pain and suffering on everything that crosses our path in the name of just a little bit of more money now, but it’s okay because for some reason (the reason is more money right now) it’s been glorified in our media and it’s way more acceptable than showing just the smallest amount of empathy so we’re just going to keep doing it.

        Any time that someone raises the point that there’s something fundamentally wrong with capitalism, were just going to tell them that they aren’t shaking hands firmly enough or making good enough I contact during interviews with their own dad, because again, we are not allowed to do empathy. I don’t think we were ever taught that in business school, but it’s implied so in order to be successful we just need to keep absolutely demolishing everything else around us that could make us human in order to maintain profit and image.

    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.orgEnglish
      161·
      2 hours ago

      The Finnish Poultry Association cited the lack of prior trade agreements and complex regulatory hurdles.

      Such an understated way of saying: you started a trade war, now go fsck yourself!

      • criticon@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        29 minutes ago

        The US has a trade agreement with Mexico and Canada and it still means shit to him