Under President Joe Biden’s leadership, inflation has grown to be a serious problem. Mother Nature is now making matters worse by bringing shortages and consequent price increases for one of the most widely consumed food staples in America.
This is going to be the “biggest year of bird flu” in California, the California Poultry Federation has declared. As a result, according to KXTV, eggs are become harder to find at grocery stores around the state.
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“I’m not seeing any eggs,” stated Michelle Fehy, a Novato, California, grocery store patron, to KGO-TV in San Francisco. “I was here earlier in the week when they were empty.”
Another customer from the neighborhood, Barbara Barrish, concurred.
“There’s not an egg on the shelf, just an empty area,” she said.
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“It’s sad when anything like that starts to happen,” Tara Fortier told KTVU that she was a customer at the Safeway supermarket in Alameda, California. “And then, of course, it really brings it home for all of us that there is an impact. It is a supply chain and a food chain.”
“It’s really hard on our grocery stores,” she added. “It’s really sad for the farmers and then there’s us. You want to go bake something, and you can’t find eggs, or you can’t have eggs for breakfast. So it’s an impact all the way around.”
A large-scale avian flu outbreak that is impacting millions of turkeys and “egg-laying hens” has been reported by officials. Commercial farmers were forced to put flocks to death in at least 11 different areas as a result.
“The farms are locked down, we don’t let people in and out of the facilities,” Bill Mattos from the California Poultry Federation told KGO.
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“We’ve lost significant numbers of chickens for eggs in the Central Valley, but I think the Sacramento area should be OK in the next few months once the market kind of takes care of itself,” Mattos told KXTV.
“At this point in time, over one million birds are impacted,” Andrew Smith, the agriculture commissioner for Sonoma County, told KGO.
A chicken farmer who was interviewed by KXTV said that the problem extends beyond the death of the birds and involves the considerable amount of time needed to replace them.
“The biggest thing is the down time,” Ken Mitchell, a chicken breeder, remarked “You could be out four to six months. If you don’t have birds, you aren’t making money.”
The current bird flu outbreak is projected to drive up egg costs for at least one more month, according to the California Poultry Federation.
“All of the egg industry is hurting, every which way you can think of,” said EttaMarie Peterson, who sells eggs to clients from her modest family farm in Petaluma, California.
“It’s crazy, I’m surprised there’s any eggs in the fridge,” She informed KGO, stating that the present scarcity was making it difficult for her to provide her clients’ needs for eggs.
