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Texas supermarket asks customers to curb egg buys due to U.S. shortage
Reuters ^ | June 4, 2015 | Jim Forsyth

Posted on 06/05/2015 6:50:18 AM PDT by bgill

H-E-B has put up signs on our egg shelves throughout all of our stores, asking our customers to limit their purchases to three cartons of eggs per purchase... the company does not want restaurants and commercial institutions coming in and stripping its shelves of eggs... [Whataburger] is cutting back on the hours it offers breakfast... Some egg-dependent companies are contemplating drastic steps that include importing eggs from overseas or looking to egg alternatives.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: avianflu; egg
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Worst outbreak ever and importing eggs. Who stands to profit? Follow the money.
1 posted on 06/05/2015 6:50:18 AM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill

my eight hens provide me 6 eggs a day. What we haven’t been able to eat, I give them away to friends.

Maybe there is a market?


2 posted on 06/05/2015 6:53:08 AM PDT by hadaclueonce (It is not heaven, it is Iowa. Everyone gets a "Corn Check")
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To: bgill

Food Shortages - Another 0bama “Success” story.


3 posted on 06/05/2015 6:53:23 AM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (0bama may not be THE antiCHRIST, but he's definitely ANTI - CHRIST!)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Can a toilet paper shortage be far behind?


4 posted on 06/05/2015 6:54:48 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: bgill
Great way to start a 'run on eggs'. There will have to be an 'egg holiday' so the govt. can get a grip on the crisis.

Rham (sp) will step in because he cannot let a 'crisis go to waste'. This will let the Democrats solidify their hold on supermarket egg supply and distribution.

I can go on!

5 posted on 06/05/2015 6:56:17 AM PDT by Parmy
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To: bgill

Obama to Soros: “All is going according to plan, comrade.”


6 posted on 06/05/2015 6:56:38 AM PDT by tgusa (gun control: hitting your target.)
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To: bgill

The Rihadi Group out of Indonesia!

No, wait, that was who profited from Clinton destroying our coal mining industry.


7 posted on 06/05/2015 6:57:38 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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Maybe there is a market?

If you were right down the street I'd swap you some coin for eggs.

/johnny

8 posted on 06/05/2015 7:04:23 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (gone Galt)
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To: bgill

I don’t know, I have a friend at church who knows farmers who have too many eggs so she gets them for very little cost. So grateful she extended it to us. I found it odd as our county has been the hardest hit in MN by the bird flu, but mostly turkeys I guess.


9 posted on 06/05/2015 7:04:42 AM PDT by NorthstarMom (God says debt is a curse and children are a blessing, yet we apply for loans and prevent pregnancy.)
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To: bgill

Not eggactly what I wanted to hear, love my big weekend breakfasts.


10 posted on 06/05/2015 7:08:13 AM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: hadaclueonce

Cool, I have eight chickens too, but they’re not laying eggs yet. 6 per day you say?


11 posted on 06/05/2015 7:11:09 AM PDT by Usagi_yo (Abuse rolls down hill.)
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Buy away. In a free market shortages lead to higher prices which lead to greater supply which tends toward a new supply/demand price equilibrium. A basic economics lesson that it seems few (especially in government) understand.


12 posted on 06/05/2015 7:11:54 AM PDT by Petrosius
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Can a toilet paper shortage be far behind?

Not at my house. I've had a year's worth stockpiled for some time. It will be gold some day.

13 posted on 06/05/2015 7:12:28 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts ("It is never untimely to yank the rope of freedom's bell." - - Frank Capra)
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To: tgusa

“I’ll have more leeway after the coup” ....


14 posted on 06/05/2015 7:13:07 AM PDT by Usagi_yo (Abuse rolls down hill.)
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To: hadaclueonce

I will have chickens at some point... I look forward to having hard boiled eggs, or egg salad sammiches for lunch, every day!


15 posted on 06/05/2015 7:17:39 AM PDT by Rodamala
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There was a story floating about the other day about a person sabotaging Chicken farms in SC. The sabotaging was very sophisticated and they were able to eventually pin it on an independent chicken farmer who lost his contract with Pilgrim, so armed with his knowledge of chicken handling procedures he disabled all the environmental alarms, and in the case of adults chickens, he drove the heat up to kill them all. In the case of Chicks he turned the heat off and let them freeze to death.

Interestingly, one of the affected farmers indicated it would only take 12 weeks to turn the next cycle of chickens out.


16 posted on 06/05/2015 7:20:49 AM PDT by Usagi_yo (Abuse rolls down hill.)
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I wonder if California’s change in regulations had anything to do with this.
Either by causing a change in procedures or just as a contributing factor in the price increase.


17 posted on 06/05/2015 7:27:56 AM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: Petrosius

That chart is taught in the second week of any decent Econ101 class yet so many can’t grasp the concept. It’s more politically useful to manipulate the situation rather than operate from a basic understanding of markets.


18 posted on 06/05/2015 7:28:39 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: tgusa
Obama to Soros: “All is going according to plan, comrade.”

"Cuba on the continent, in our lifetime? It CAN be done! It CAN be!"

19 posted on 06/05/2015 7:29:33 AM PDT by Rodamala
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“... egg salad sammiches...”

That’s NOT egg salad that comes out the back.


20 posted on 06/05/2015 7:35:53 AM PDT by USMCPOP (Father of LCpl. Karl Linn, KIA 1/26/2005 Al Haqlaniyah, Iraq)
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