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chucwagn t1_j6jmz54 wrote

According to the DoAg, the anticipated impact on egg prices from this incident is minimal to none at this time....

Right. Convenient.

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DonCorletony t1_j6joqzv wrote

There are 25.8 Billion chickens in the world

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chucwagn t1_j6jp5io wrote

Great... Then why have egg prices doubled? Did we have 51.6b chickens last week?

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DonCorletony t1_j6jqw0v wrote

Prices arent directly linear like that. If we lost half of the chickens on earth, prices wouldnt double. They would multiply exponentially and you literally wouldnt find any eggs in the store.

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the__storm t1_j6kh049 wrote

There's a reason they don't call it the demand straight line through the origin.

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HoloceneHosier t1_j6jqqoh wrote

We've killed about 53 million in the US in the past year or so for the outbreak. Soooo

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