To the editor: The disaster isn’t that eggs at the moment are costlier. The disaster is that there are billions of chickens being tortured and slaughtered to supply meat and eggs. And now, extra chickens are being killed as a result of they’ve the flu. (“California is at the center of the country’s egg mess. Here’s why and what’s coming,” Feb. 13)
It leaves one to surprise why individuals would need to danger getting sick simply to have an egg, which is actually a cholesterol-laden, unfertilized interval of a rooster. There are such a lot of different choices for breakfast.
However I believe the price of eggs must be far more than it’s now, as a result of a rooster’s life is value lots.
Is there something you are able to do to economize? Sure. Don’t purchase eggs, or have a well-cared-for rooster in your yard if you wish to eat eggs a lot.
Andrea Boyd, Mount Nice, S.C.
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To the editor: It’s attention-grabbing that in your dialogue of the California egg disaster, you neglect to say the passage in 2018 of Proposition 12, which mandates extra space for egg-laying hens and different livestock. Is your bias displaying?
Please write an article about this.
Andrew Bressler, Culver Metropolis
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To the editor: One of many principal causes individuals voted for President Trump was the worth of groceries, particularly eggs. Regardless of inflation coming down within the latter half of former President Biden’s time period, egg costs had been nonetheless a bit greater final November than earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic.
A slim plurality of People voted Republican, for cheaper eggs. How’s that working for us? Eggs at the moment are twice the worth they had been when Democrats misplaced the election.
Some blame fowl influenza, and a few blame inflation. Well being and Human Providers Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is unlikely to assist with controlling a possible pandemic since he’s anti-vaccine. If the fowl flu begins circulating extensively amongst people, hundreds of People might die.
You’ll be able to thank the Republican senators who voted to substantiate Kennedy and different incompetent Cupboard secretaries whose solely qualification is to observe Trump all the way down to oblivion.
Republican insurance policies convey cheaper eggs? You’ve been fooled once more.
Bruce Joffe, Piedmont, Calif.
