Prices for Eggs started increasing be for the H5N1 virus. Large Egg producers are a monopoly and raise prices because consumers tend to purchase eggs at the Supermarket.
My advice, buy from small shops and the price of eggs can be cheaper. also, while McKinley was President during the Gilded Age, monopolies reined, wealth was concentrated. After he was shot, Teddy Roosevelt reined in the monopolies with anti trust Laws? We need a Congress and a President that cares about promises made to the American people.
President Trump when do we see low food prices?
The Guardian article:
The cost of a dozen large eggs hit almost $5 in January – a record high in the US and more than two and a half times the average price three years ago before the avian flu outbreak. This signifies a 157% inflation rate for eggs – a previously go-to affordable protein source for many American families.
And while avian flu has been a principal driver of rising consumer egg prices, the highly concentrated egg market may also be contributing to the soaring consumer prices – and the spread of the virus, according to new analysis by Food and Water Watch (FWW) shared exclusively with the Guardian.
“Bird flu does not fully explain the sticker shock consumers experience in the egg aisle … corporate consolidation is a key culprit behind egg price spikes,” said Amanda Starbuck, lead author of the FWW report The Economic Cost of Food Monopolies: The Rotten Egg Oligarchy.
“Powerful corporations that control every step of the supply chain – from breeding hens to hatching eggs to processing and distributing eggs – are making windfall profits off this crisis, raising their prices above and beyond what is necessary to cover any rising costs.”