Summary
The Trump administration faces a dilemma as skyrocketing egg prices due to bird flu have forced Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to consider emergency imports.
With eggs now averaging $8 per dozen (up from $2.25 last fall), Trump may need to request imports from countries he’s recently antagonized—particularly Canada, the largest U.S. egg importer, which Trump has threatened with tariffs and annexation.
Other potential egg suppliers (Netherlands, UK, China) have also faced Trump’s recent hostility through tariffs or threats.
Meanwhile, Turkey plans to export 420 million eggs to the U.S., but this represents less than 5% of monthly U.S. production.
I know where cheap eggs are…
Costco.
Got 2 dozen for $8 last weekend in Colorado (where they have to be cage free chickens). Costco is a pretty good place to shop.
Maybe the cage free ones are good, but I bought costcos organic eggs once. Threw them all away. Thin shells, watery pale yolks. Yuck.
I am not much of an egg eater but if I do I want decent fresh eggs. Like the ones my chickens laid.
That’s the problem I see, I don’t want just any eggs, I want good eggs.
And trying to source them from just anywhere they can find them, or ship them long distances just isnt worth it.
Zelensky should have brought a carton of eggs to the oval office.
That would be such a power move.
most famines are manmade, exacerbated by a hostile or mismanaged government
I dont think USA will be getting eggs because Doug Ford just threatened to cut power that we we supply to the US due to the tariffs going into effect tomorrow.
What shape is Russia’s egg industry in?
Ovoid, I presume.
I hope Trudeau tells him to pound sand.
“JK, no eggs for Nazis!”
Trump Might Have to Ask Foes Like Trudeau for Emergency Eggs
Woah woah woah. Why the ever-loving fuck are they calling Trudeau a “foe”?! Are they just priming people to believe we’re enemies now so that when the inevitable invasion comes they feel justified?!
Language matters and this is yet another disgusting betrayal.
Trudeau kinda is one of Trump’s foes though, isn’t he?
No. We’re allies and good trading partners. If Trudeau is a “foe” then it’s only because Trump is making unrealistic demands of submission or being crushed.
Trump’s foe. Canada is the US’s ally.
Are we? Really doesn’t feel like we’re allies these days
Trump’s voice is loud, bombastic, and belligerent, but rarely anchored in reality. There doesn’t seem to be any limits to how low he will go, but that doesn’t change realities like the worlds two largest trading partners, thousands of miles of unguarded border, a long history of cooperation and yes, friendship. Do what you have to to deal with Trumps BS and know that half the US will cheer you on and only hope you’ll give us the chance to make it up to you in four years
Trump’s America’s foe.
The US is no ally of Canada. The US is currently allied with Russia and North Korea.
but not of the US. and trump represent the US. many people consume news by inferring from headlines. and a headline like this one reads the canada is a foe of the us
Trump is much more a foe to the US than Trudeau ever would be
Which is why being Trump’s foe ain’t a bad thing.
The entire remaining free democratic world is Trump’s foe now
I think I’m the only one who remembers when Trudeau and Trump and Nieto signed that NAFTA agreement and Trump screwed up by signing in the wrong place and Trudeau covered for him to save him embarrassment. A very classy move that went completely unnoticed by a classless thug.
Trump might need to ask his Canadian neighbour Trudeau for emergency eggs.
If i was Canada leadership I would give eggs for 50% mineral rights and demand he say thank you and repeat he has no eggs over and over again.
Eggs.
Eggs.
Eggs.
If I keep posting this every time there are egg related political news stories, maybe it’ll come true?
I put together a little short story about how I would like to see Donald Trump meet his demise. Drowning in eggs:
The Eggsecution.
The once-proud leader, now stripped of title and dignity, stands in the center of the barren, concrete abyss. The abandoned Olympic swimming pool—thirty feet deep, dry as bone—has become their final stage. Above, the gathered masses stretch in every direction, a writhing sea of anticipation.
They do not jeer. They do not boo.
They simply chant.
“Eggs. Eggs. Eggs.”
It starts as a murmur, a low thrum of human voices vibrating in unison. Then it grows, swelling into a deafening roar that rattles windows, that shudders in the bones of every person present. A chant as ancient as it is absurd, a single-minded invocation of punishment.
The first egg arcs high overhead, tracing a lazy curve before splattering against the fallen leader’s shoulder. The yolk bursts, oozing down his baggy, ugly, now-useless suit. A streak of yellow, the first of many.
Another egg. Then another.
Then dozens.
The first impacts make them flinch, stagger—hands raised in a futile shield. But soon there are too many to dodge, too many to deflect. They curl inward as the sky rains viscous judgment. The chant never stops.
“Eggs. Eggs. Eggs.”
Shells crack. Yolk drips. The scent of sulfur and shame thickens in the stagnant air. It coats their skin, their hair, their pride, turning them into something less than human. Something… egg-like.
At the top of the pit, a child—no older than seven—steps forward. They hold their egg with both hands, cradling it like something precious. Reverent. With a deliberate motion, they lob it downward. It strikes the leader square on the forehead, exploding with an almost musical plap. The crowd erupts into a fresh crescendo of cheers, but the chant never falters.
“Eggs. Eggs. Eggs.”
No escape. No reprieve. The pit is smooth concrete, slick now with raw egg and humiliation. They can do nothing but stand there, endure, become part of the ritual.
Somewhere in the throng, a vendor hawks boiled eggs. Another sells cartons to the unprepared. A man in a chicken suit waves encouragingly at the crowd.
The night wears on, but the spectacle does not end.
It cannot end.
Not until the last egg is thrown. Not until the last voice is hoarse.
Not until the world is rid of this one, failed leader, broken not by swords or exile, but by the inescapable weight of public yolk and scorn.
“Eggs. Eggs. Eggs.”
We could just try not eating any, or at least not so many.
The egg thing is really strange to me. Are people eating a few eggs every single day? I usually buy an 18 count every few weeks at most.
I understand that eggs are used in a significant amount of products that aren’t just raw eggs, but the people complaining so loudly are probably not the businesses that use them.
The direct issue is the price on the shelf. People see it and get angry, but it raises the cost of a significant number of products in the store.
The other problem I see is that eggs are $8 a dozen and the shelves are FULL. That’s not a shortage driving the price-up scenario. That’s farmers doing a money grab.
If your self is mostly empty and their high priced, it’s super legit. If there’s no shortage week after week and the prices are 2x-3x it’s shenanigans.
Spoiled eggs from Turkey sounds like a great way to Make America Sick Again, LOL. Dear Canadians, Please post photos of your inexpensive eggs. Additionally, please post photos of all the items you use eggs to make. Fuck trump.
We kind of don’t need to post pictures— our grocery stores have their marked up prices on their website https://www.loblaws.ca/en/search?search-bar=eggs
Your website shows $17 for a thing of eggs and they’re out of stock.
That’s a 30 count though. And presumably in CAD. Still more expensive than the pic posted. (EDIT pic posted elsewhere in this thread.)
30 eggs
Organic
About 10$ for the same thing if they’re not organic
This is a good idea. Fuck trump. Fuck the republican traitor filth.
It’s probably pasteurised eggs. And it’s probably not direct to consumer either. Lots of things have eggs in them and those eggs were probably bought in jugs or barrels rather than dozens.
I buy my eggs by the gallon.
I’ve seen Costco selling egg whites by the litre carton. Gallons wouldn’t be farfetched for restaurant supply.
Most food is made in factories, not homes or restaurants. Kinda gross.
I actually do have a photo of Canadian eggs ($3.79 CAD is about $2.50 USD)
Where is that? Eggs $6 minimum in Victoria
“We MUST invade Canada. Not for the oil, not for the water, not for the minerals, steel or aluminum, but for the eggs! Get America cracking again!”
Does anyone know what’s happening to the tariffs ?
The White House said they weren’t coming, then Trump got mad and said they definitely were, now the White House is saying they don’t konw it’s up to Trump.
Literally no one. Not even the fuck-wit-in-chief has any idea at this moment.
