Why are eggs sooooo darn expensive? Can someone please force the government into setting egg price controls?

Photo above - Elizabeth Warren is MAD AS HELL, AND NOT GONNA TAKE IT ANYMORE! Over egg prices . . .

Dammit, I paid a whopping $4.39 a dozen for eggs last week! And these weren’t even cage free, extra large, non-gmo, pesticide free, sustainably sourced eggs. They were just ordinary chicken eggs. Like mom used to make. Eggs are up a whopping $1.00 since September. But about the same price they were in December. So it’s a mystery why democrats are demanding price controls on groceries, now that Biden has left the White House (see link below).

Okay, I get it. Senator Elizabeth Warren is cheesed that Democrats don’t control the senate any more. And democrats COULD have imposed egg price controls at any point, if they'd actually wanted to.

Senator Warren held a LOT of hearings in 2024: Why are social security checks so low? Why are loan fees so high? You can google the complete list. Nothing about eggs, milk, bread or other groceries though. Now America's first Native American senator is laser focused on those eggs. They’re too damn expensive! It must be Trump's fault, right?

Actually, it's the US Department of Health and Human Services’ fault. They didn’t develop a new bird flu vaccine. There’s plenty of the old, ineffective vaccine, in government vaults. Yesterday the HHS authorized $500 million to Moderna to get cracking on a vaccine that will actually work. That’s something ELSE that could have happened in 2024. H5 bird flu virus is why eggs, wings, and everything else that comes from the henhouse is so expensive. It has nothing to do with greedy farmers and grocery stores. Unless you believe California’s grocery stores are the greediest in America. They’re charging the most for eggs. A buck and half more than I pay in Tampa. More than Alaska, even, where chickens freeze to death 30 seconds after they set foot outside.

Who has the world's most expensive eggs? New Zealand. America doesn’t even crack the top 10. Switzerland, Norway, and Germany are worse too. If California votes for independence, like they’re threatening, they will be near the top of the egg list. If Hawaii tried the same stunt, their eggs at $9.73 a dozen would be number one on the charts, by a huge margin.

All kidding aside, I definitely AM cheesed at Tampa’s egg prices. Since they went up a buck a dozen from last summer, I am now paying 8 cents more per egg, whenever I fry one up as part of a healthy balanced breakfast (I don't go to the McDonald's drive thru egg McMuffins). I could certainly use that extra 8 cents to cover my soaring electricity bills. Because my neighbors are jockeying for pole position at public charging stations, driving up the cost per kilowatt for their tax subsidized EVs.

I’m just sayin’ . . .

Democrats slam Trump for not making good on promise to 'immediately' lower food prices

Eggs - prices by country, around the world, December 2024 | GlobalProductPrices.com