{"id":39328,"date":"2025-03-05T03:11:29","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T08:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=39328"},"modified":"2025-03-05T03:11:29","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T08:11:29","slug":"5-a-dozen-major-egg-companies-may-be-using-avian-flu-to-hike-us-prices-new-report-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=39328","title":{"rendered":"$5 a dozen: major egg companies may be using avian flu to hike US prices, new report finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2880770afa6f8888353c2c88bfbbb8c78438c7b4\/0_0_1500_900\/master\/1500.jpg?width=1900&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=none&amp;crop=none\" width=\"298\" height=\"179\" \/>The highly concentrated egg market may be contributing to soaring consumer prices \u2013 and the spread of the virus, data shared exclusively with the Guardian shows<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/mar\/04\/egg-prices-bird-flu-corporate-profits\">$5 a dozen: major egg companies may be using avian flu to hike US prices, new report finds<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBird flu does not fully explain the sticker shock consumers experience in the egg aisle \u2026 corporate consolidation is a key culprit behind egg price spikes,\u201d said Amanda Starbuck, lead author of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodandwaterwatch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/RPT2_2502_EconomicCostEggs.pdf\">the FWW report<\/a>\u00a0The Economic Cost of Food Monopolies: The Rotten Egg Oligarchy.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"876\" height=\"221\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-39330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1.png 876w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-300x76.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-768x194.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/image-1-675x170.png 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The highly concentrated egg market may be contributing to soaring consumer prices&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[632,1266,1102,57],"class_list":["post-39328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-bird-flu","tag-eggs","tag-tfg","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39331,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39328\/revisions\/39331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}