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"There's an egg shortage!"
> High egg prices send profits at largest US producer soaring more than 700%
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Are you the least bit aware of what caused the egg shortage? There was a super virulent strain of avian influenza (bird flu) that has the potential to infect wild birds and to jump to mammals. You know, like people. The same thing triggered the pandemic in 1918 that killed anywhere from 1% - 5% of the world population.
So to avoid that happening again, they had to destroy (slaughter) millions and millions of egg laying hens, which yes, caused a shortage of eggs relative to normal.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery/chart-detail/?chartId=105576
There are real issues that need to be addressed with capitalism and workers rights. This isn't one of them and you hurt the real arguments by not educating yourself.
I think the "send profits soaring...700 percent" was the point there.
Do you think it's free to replace millions of hens?
If they've paid to replace them, that's a cost, not a profit.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, but you're wrong.
Profit is logged against prior expenditure, so that would be the cost of acquiring and feeding the hens they had to destroy.
The cost to replace those hens will be offset against the sale of eggs produced by the new hens. That will be how next year's profit is calculated.