What comes first? The chicken, the egg, or Democrats blaming President Donald Trump for something completely out of his control?
As a flu strain spreads through America’s egg-laying birds, a disease expert has a perfect parallel to Democrats’ latest theory on President Donald Trump and why he’s responsible for soaring egg prices.
Egg prices have increased 37% since this time last year due, in part, to bird flu, according to The New York Times. Over 30 million egg-laying chickens were killed in the last three months to mitigate the spread, leading to a spike in the price of wholesale eggs, the outlet reported. (Subscribe to MR. RIGHT, a weekly newsletter about modern masculinity)
Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other Democrats sent Trump a letter attacking him for not magically waving his better bargains wand, lowering prices fast enough, and halting the spread of a rampant bird flu just a week into his term.
Has Trump lowered the price of groceries? No. Instead, he’s focused on renaming the Gulf of Mexico.
Today, my colleagues and I gave him a list of things he could do right now to start to lower the prices of eggs. https://t.co/dbbXa0Asaw
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) January 27, 2025
“We write to ask about your Administration’s plan to lower food prices for American families. Americans, in the first days of your new presidency, are facing egg shortages amidst an avian flu outbreak and still-high prices at the grocery store,” the letter from the group of Democrats states. “During your campaign, you repeatedly promised you would lower food prices ‘immediately’ if elected president. But during your first week of office, you have instead focused on mass deportations and pardoning January 6 attackers.”
Never mind outbreaks of bird flu were reported for years under former President Joe Biden’s administration. In 2022 alone, bird flu killed a record number of birds, including egg-laying hens. In May 2024, officials in Iowa killed 4,000,000 egg-laying chickens after the flock contracted bird flu.
MIAMI, FLORIDA – JANUARY 23: A sign indicates that, ‘due to supply shortages, availability may be limited in the coming weeks’, in the egg section of a grocery store on January 23, 2025 in Miami, Florida. Grocery stores across the nation are running short on eggs, and the situation may not improve for months. The avian influenza has killed as many as 17.2 million egg-laying hens, causing an egg shortage. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
But now with Trump in office, it’s time to pin the blame on him. Egg shortages and skyrocketing prices that have been an ongoing issue amid a flu outbreak that began during Biden’s presidency? Ah, it’s all Trump’s fault, obviously. It’s as if Democrats are blaming Trump, who’s downwind, for things blowing over from Biden’s administration into his.
It’s the perfect metaphor, and it also might be what is literally causing bird flu to rapidly spread throughout the country’s poultry farms.
Dr. Michael Osterholm, the Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, has a theory about why bird flu is spreading, and it has to do with wind and feces. Migratory birds susceptible to the disease, such as ducks and geese, often defecate in wide-open farm fields near poultry production facilities. Unfortunately for egg-laying birds and American consumers, these facilities are not always fully protected from the wind, which will blow the fowl feces into the commercial animals and cause infection, according to Osterholm.
“Today, I am certain that we are seeing clouds of dust with bird feces in that, and we are beginning to see what I would consider to be almost an environmental type disease, similar to the transmission that we see with Coccidioidomycosis, what we call Valley fever, where in fact that’s a fungus that grows in the environment. And then on windy days it blows with the dust and you inhale it. I think we’re going to see the same thing with H5N1. That’s why so many of these barns are now positive,” Osterholm said on his podcast, “Osterholm Update.”
“I think we’re going to see more and more situations with wind driven activity where you’re going to see virus show up. What does that mean? I do not believe that the price of eggs is going to come down anytime soon, because until the poultry industry realizes they have to have airtight barns with HEPA filter intake, they’re going to continue to see this virus show up and show up and show up and show up. Unless it changes in the wildlife. It’s unless it changes in the migratory waterfowl. It’s going to continue to be a problem for them,” he warned.
Don’t be surprised if you see another strongly worded letter from Liz Warren and her fellow Democrats attempting to blame Trump, this time for the 50 mile-per-hour wind gusts blowing bird poop into poultry facilities.
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