"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.

  • whyalone@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    25 minutes ago

    This egg trade is insane, not a single euro country could help USA here simply because the us has a 340m+ population and that being said, it would take the entire eu support/ supply in order to meet the demand of the USA

  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
    23·
    2 hours 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.

      • Azal@pawb.socialEnglish
        01·
        50 minutes ago

        You’ll have to rinse/repeat a lot with this administration. Vance will be marginally better/worse. Basically he won’t be absolutely unpredictable, but he’ll be competent.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    2222·
    5 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.

  • boaratio@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 hours 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.

  • ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    4 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.

    • GiantChickDicks@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      This is important to bring up. If we want to stop being subjected to this kind of fuckery, we need to unite and vote with our dollars. I love making egg-based dishes, but there are other options. The real problem is most people struggle with the idea of making sacrifices to get what they want later. Just don’t buy eggs as an average consumer if they are that unaffordable.

      In the United States, we are spoiled for choice when we shop. We’re used to being able to get what we want when we want it, and that’s led to a sense of entitlement. Eat other things, get creative. Look up effective substitutions for eggs in baking.

      We don’t have to take this. So don’t.

  • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caEnglish
    411·
    4 hours ago

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

    • faythofdragons@slrpnk.netEnglish
      18·
      3 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
        12·
        3 hours ago

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