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outbreak in the United States is pushing the price of eggs to new highs despite the overall cooling of food costby 8.5% in two months according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, from $3.37 in October to $3.65 in November.
That’s in part because the egg-laying hen flock decreased by 3% since last year, down to 315 million birds, and egg production is down by 4% according to theWhile food prices overall increased by about 2.4% since last year, according to the consumer price index, the price of eggs alone has increased by 37.5%
Bird flu, or H5N1, has been a growing problem among wild migratory birds in the US since 2021, making industrialized poultry flocks vulnerable to the disease as well. The poultry industry has a strict protocol in place to eliminate infected birds from the flock, called culling. A hands-on process for poultry workers, the protocol involves individually picking up infected birds and placing them in a cart equipped to euthanize the birds as humanely as possible with carbon dioxide gas.since early April, an inter-species jump that has public health experts concerned about the possibility of the virus mutating to potentially infect humans.
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