New Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins
Offers a Five-Pronged Strategy to Lower
the Cost of Eggs

Wow. she hit the ground running. There are new ideas here.

The crucial step is to stop the unnecessary slaughter of chickens, by those trying to limit our food supply.

Only chickens seem to suffer from the avian flu, which is strange. Bidet didn't go after ducks, turkeys, geese or all those birds flying everywhere. Just like cows are the only animals that pass methane gas. Only critters that are high on the food chain seem to be a danger to us.

How about the government stop killing chickens and destroying eggs?

And the government stop mandating ethanol and driving up to price of corn?

An old fashioned REAL vaccine would seem to be a good, basic approach. mRNA shots being sold as a "vaccine" would guarantee that I get my own hens to provide my own eggs and entirely stop with mRNA-ed eggs.

How bout one prong: get government out of egg producers’ hair. Government screws up almost everything it gets its paws on. Let egg producers use common sense and thousands of years of experience to raise healthy chickens that produce lots of good eggs.

The slaughter of millions of chickens was nothing more than political sabotage.

I'll happily pay $5 per egg if Musk and Trump can finally stamp out the raging Democrat Virus that has been plaguing this country.

How about good old fashioned breeding? We used to breed for disease and parasite resistance in our livestock. Now we practically clone animals in protein production and then just rely solely on biosecurity, chemicals, and drugs. No wonder these poor things drop like flies or become completely unprofitable when that security fails. Thus far we don't even know the full extent of how this stuff gets transmitted. We assume wild birds but has it aerosolized? Can it literally float miles on the wind? Who knows? Better just to obliterate millions of chickens and start over in their view than to do the tough science. Wouldn't it be better to set about building a better chicken? Solid hybrid vigor from intensive breeding programs in both plants and animals has literally saved whole industries in the past.

fta: Farmer Joel Salatin on bird flu immunity: "The thing that gets me about avian influenza is the response to it. In any flock that gets avian influenza, there are always survivors—many times, more survivors than not. Now, you would think that if the people in charge were actually thinking, they would say, "Huh, we’ve got a flock here of chickens. Some got it, some didn’t. Why don’t we save the ones that didn’t? We’ll take their genetics, breed them, and maybe we’ll actually breed in more robust immune systems. Wow, fancy that! Wouldn’t that be cool?" "No. If you have 10,000 birds in a flock and one bird’s got avian influenza, immediately, by government decree, all of them must be exterminated." All of them—survivors, non-survivors—everything. Back many years ago, when a pathogenic influenza hit Indochina—remember when it came through Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and all that?—the UK did some experiments. They found that if a chicken eats two fresh blades of grass a day—two blades of fresh grass a day—she doesn’t get avian influenza." -- I know Joel and I hadn't even read this comment but heck yeah! Being a regenerative farmer myself, you breed and nurture for better animal health and only used drugs and non-natural curatives as a last resort.

Not culling our chicken populations would be a good start, coupled with no vaccines or antibiotics.

Here's my plan to lower the price of eggs: don't buy them until the price comes down.

Exactly right, superb analysis from LadyHen. Hmmmm. Special insight? Grin. just a touch of humor, I hope.

Seems like the problem should solve itself when the new generation of chickens gets to be old enough to lay eggs. That being said, there is merit in the "survival of the fittest" argument noted here.