In the face of spiking costs/shrinking supply, closing processing plants is reasonable. It's a symptom of a broader problem coming down the supply chain. This is a natural domino-effect. Those egg price spikes from a couple news cycles ago are the bleeding edge of the chicken shortage shutting down plants now.
Chicken shortages, though? That's where you start theorizing.
Look into the large culls in chicken flocks (ostensibly to stop avian flu) as well as reports of tainted feed which keeps hens from laying back in February. You know, the news items that coincided with the peer reviewed 2021 Chinese study that egg proteins help boost Covid resistance-- that theory the AP's deboonked.
Nothing to see here. Get into your pod and have some more bugs.
In the face of spiking costs/shrinking supply, closing processing plants is reasonable. It's a symptom of a broader problem coming down the supply chain. This is a natural domino-effect. Those egg price spikes from a couple news cycles ago are the bleeding edge of the chicken shortage shutting down plants now.
Chicken shortages, though? That's where you start theorizing.
Look into the large culls in chicken flocks (ostensibly to stop avian flu) as well as reports of tainted feed which keeps hens from laying back in February. You know, the news items that coincided with the peer reviewed 2021 Chinese study that egg proteins help boost Covid resistance-- that theory the AP's deboonked.
Nothing to see here. Get into your pod and have some more bugs.