President Donald Trump's administration has been trying to import large quantities of eggs from overseas to make up for the loss of eggs that has occurred while American farms struggle to contain bird flu.However, Bloomberg reports that the administration has been flailing in its efforts so far give...

Summary

The Trump administration’s effort to import eggs to offset losses from bird flu is struggling due to logistical challenges and global supply constraints.

Many countries, including Turkey, are prioritizing domestic supply and imposing export taxes.

Experts warn that replacing U.S. egg production with imports is unrealistic, as the industry operates on a local scale.

To meet demand, the U.S. would need 70 to 100 million eggs in the next month, a goal analysts say is nearly impossible to achieve quickly.

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
    14·
    2 days ago

    This is Trump, the same guy who thought that the best way to make COVID numbers go down is to stop recording COVID cases. He has the most rudimentary grasp on cause and effect that his solution to not enough eggs is to remove all safeguards and import whatever another country thinks qualifies as eggs. And that’s ignoring eggs with bird flu. It’s fully within his scope of inept decisions to enable DOGE to gut the FDA and expedite foreign eggs.

    It isn’t impossible to get the eggs. It’s impossible to get the eggs that we expect.