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As egg prices soar, Trump administration plans new strategy to fight bird flu

With egg prices soaring, the Trump administration is planning a new strategy for fighting bird flu that stresses vaccinations and tighter biosecurity instead of killing off millions of chickens when the disease strikes a flock.
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As egg prices soar, Trump administration plans new strategy to fight bird flu​


“With egg prices soaring, the Trump administration is planning a new strategy for fighting bird flu that stresses vaccinations and tighter biosecurity instead of killing off millions of chickens when the disease strikes a flock.

… The poultry industry has long resisted vaccinating flocks against bird flu because of the potential impacts on export markets, as well as the expense. Most U.S. trading partners won’t accept exports from countries that allow vaccinations due to concerns that vaccines can mask the presence of the virus.

“We support the administration and their goals to bring down food inflation and cut regulatory red tape and hopefully eliminate this virus,” said Tom Super, spokesman for the National Chicken Council, which represents the broiler industry which produces chickens for meat. But he said in an interview that producers need ”robust trade protection” to ensure they don’t lose markets.

… Another barrier is the logistical difficulty in giving shots to up to 3 million birds or more at a single egg farm. Current vaccines are all injectables. Farms might opt to limit them to new pullets coming onto a farm …”
 
I did manage to get some on special for 3.99 at HT yesterday. It was the last carton.
 
lawtig02 said:
Just wait until those $5,000 checks get sent. He’ll do whatever he must to buy approval ratings.
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Those checks will never get sent, at least certainly nothing like that amount. Trump has been cheating people out of money his entire life, and even if his approval rating is in the toilet I don't think that's going to change. A leopard can't change his spots, so to speak. And Musk sure as hell isn't going to foot the bill - my guess is by the summer of 2026 Musk will be out of the government, either out of boredom, Trump getting jealous and finally dumping him, or as suffering from his budget cuts finally settles in he'll just hightail it out of DC ahead of the backlash.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
Those checks will never get sent, at least certainly nothing like that amount. Trump has been cheating people out of money his entire life, and even if his approval rating is in the toilet I don't think that's going to change. A leopard can't change his spots, so to speak. And Musk sure as hell isn't going to foot the bill - my guess is by the summer of 2026 Musk will be out of the government, either out of boredom, Trump getting jealous and finally dumping him, or as suffering from his budget cuts finally settles in he'll just hightail it out of DC ahead of the backlash.
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Not sure why you think the lack of funding would be an impediment. If Trump orders Treasury to cut $5,000 checks to every American, who would stop them?
 
lawtig02 said:
Not sure why you think the lack of funding would be an impediment. If Trump orders Treasury to cut $5,000 checks to every American, who would stop them?
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Doing that would likely crash the economy almost immediately - sending that much money out at once to every American just isn't feasible, at least not rapidly, imo. Trump issuing an order isn't going to change that, and based on what we've seen so far Trump 2.0 isn't any more competent or capable than Trump 1.0. At any rate he's a con artist and I don't see it happening. I think he sees his supporters as rubes who will support him no matter what he does, and he would much rather use government funds to enrich himself and his buddies than waste such funds mailing a check to his supporters. They can die on the vine for all he cares.
 
lawtig02 said:
Not sure why you think the lack of funding would be an impediment. If Trump orders Treasury to cut $5,000 checks to every American, who would stop them?
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The market. Sending out unappropriated money would call all US payments into question. It would be a signal to the market that the US intends to print money indiscriminately. The market correction would be unprecedented and the result would be worse than the Great Depression, I would imagine.
 
superrific said:
The market. Sending out unappropriated money would call all US payments into question. It would be a signal to the market that the US intends to print money indiscriminately. The market correction would be unprecedented and the result would be worse than the Great Depression, I would imagine.
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I understand your reasoning.

Snoop might be correct, though. Who would stop Trump?
 
superrific said:
The market. Sending out unappropriated money would call all US payments into question. It would be a signal to the market that the US intends to print money indiscriminately. The market correction would be unprecedented and the result would be worse than the Great Depression, I would imagine.
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And Trump and all of his cabinet would purchase massive short positions just before doing it.
 
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