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With the outbreak at the one-year mark, it is the longest bird flu outbreak on US record. And with 57 million birds dead across 47 states, it's also the deadliest, surpassing the previous record set in 2015 of 50.5 million birds in 21 states.

Sounds like a lot. Until you look up that there are 373 million egg laying hens in the US in 2022 or 15% had to be put down, yet egg prices are up roughly 50%. Why has a pound of butter gone from $2.99 about two years ago to $4.50? Like everything else, we are getting screwed because there's not a damn thing we can do about it.

apnews.com
Soaring egg prices prompt demands for price-gouging probe
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — With egg prices more than doubling in the past year, calls are coming for an investigation into possible price gouging. U.S. Sen. Jack Reed sent a letter Tuesday asking for the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether egg prices have been improperly manipulated by...
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But even though roughly 43 million of the 58 million birds slaughtered over the past year to help control bird flu have been egg-laying chickens, the size of the total flock has only been down 5% to 6% at any one time from its normal size of about 320 million hens.
I'm fine using their numbers than my googling.