Is the Egg Shortage Another Conspiracy?

Via Mercola

Story at-a-glance

  • Egg prices have more than doubled compared to what they were a year ago, with a median cost of $4.25 for a dozen
  • As of January 2023, more than 58 million birds in 47 states have been killed due to avian flu outbreaks
  • The egg shortage began amidst a series of mysterious fires and other disasters at U.S. food processors
  • Some farmers have stated chicken feed made by Purina may have been altered to contain lower amounts of protein and minerals, leaving chickens unable to lay eggs
  • A report from the Rockefeller Foundation, released in July 2020 and predicting a coming food crisis, calls for the creation of a centralized “nutrition security system”

If the price of eggs has you seriously considering starting your own backyard flock, you’re not alone. Egg prices have more than doubled compared to what they were a year ago, with a median cost of $4.25 for a dozen.1

Many assume rising inflation is to blame, but the official narrative states avian flu, affecting up to 58 million birds, is the more likely cause.2 Another theory has surfaced from chicken farmers who have linked problems with egg laying to a certain brand of chicken feed.3 It’s also curious timing, as the egg shortage began amidst a series of mysterious fires and other disasters at U.S. food processors.

US Pledged to ‘Increase and Disseminate Food Shortages’

It’s relevant to note that in March 2022, President Biden openly stated food shortages are “going to be real.”4 He also said he spoke with European allies about “how we could increase, and disseminate more rapidly, food shortages.”5 Although it’s now been largely scrubbed from the internet, the statement wasn’t corrected by the White House. It circulated on social media, prompting Facebook to immediately flag it as fake news.

Whether the statement was the result of jumbling words or the revelation of something much more sinister is up for debate — as is the series of strange accidents at U.S. food processors that occurred in its wake. Here’s just a sampling:

March 13, 2022 — A Hot Pockets plant in Jonesboro, Arkansas, was shut down after a fire started inside a production line cooler.6
March 16, 2022 — A massive fire at a Walmart fulfillment center in Plainfield, Indiana, caused the closure of the facility. In April, the company announced it would not be reopening the facility, affecting the jobs of 1,132 employees.7
March 28, 2022 — A fire at Maricopa Food Pantry in Maricopa, Arizona, led to the destruction of more than 50,000 pounds of food.8
March 31, 2022 — Rio Fresh, an onion warehouse facility in south Texas, was damaged by a structure fire.9
April 11, 2022 — A fire broke out at East Conway Beef & Pork in Conway, New Hampshire, destroying the building and killing two cows.10
April 13, 2022 — A plane crashed into the Gem State processing facility in Heyburn, Idaho.11
April 13, 2022 — A four-alarm fire occurred at Taylor Farms in Salinas, California, drawing nearly 100 firefighters from 22 fire units. The facility was in the process of restarting operations after being closed for the winter.12
April 18, 2022 — The headquarters of Azure Standard in Dufur, Oregon, was destroyed in a fire. Azure Standard the largest independent distributor of organic and health foods in the U.S.13
February 4, 2023 — A fire at Hillandale Farms in Connecticut, which is owned by one of the largest egg producers in the U.S., killed an estimated 100,000 hens.14

Official Narrative Blames ‘Record’ Levels of Avian Flu

If you’re curious about why egg prices are rising — and egg shortages are occurring in some areas — you need look no further than the record number of chickens killed due to avian flu, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.15

Previously, the largest avian flu outbreak recorded occurred in 2015, when 50.5 million birds in 21 states were affected. However, 2022 marked a new record for dead birds in one year, when the number hit 52.7 million.16 By January 2023, more than 58 million birds in 47 states had been impacted in this outbreak.17

“I’m hopeful that this is not the new normal for us,” Richard Webby, director of the World Health Organization’s Collaborating Center for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza in Animals, told NPR.18

While some of the chickens died from the disease, most were culled to prevent further spread of the virus. Webby blamed the outbreak on wild birds, not those raised on concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs):19

“We don’t know exactly what it is about it, but it does seem just to be able to grow and transmit better in wild birds. Wild birds are the perfect mechanism to spread a virus because they, of course, fly everywhere.”

It does seem strange to describe wild birds as the “perfect mechanism to spread a virus,” without also pointing out that quick viral spread is virtually guaranteed on every CAFO, where birds are literally on top of each other. Still, it’s plausible that widespread avian flu could have led to chicken shortages and, therefore, egg shortages, which led to increased prices.

Anecdotal reports vary, however, about how severe egg shortages are in different areas. While some have experienced eggs disappearing from grocery store shelves, others haven’t noticed a decrease in supply at their local stores. The U.S. Department of Agriculture states that culling of chickens due to avian flu has led to a 7.5% drop in domestic egg supply each month since the outbreak began in 2022.20

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Is Altered Chicken Feed to Blame?

Another theory is also circulating online — and it’s quickly been “fact-checked” and dubbed a conspiracy by the powers that be.21 It comes straight from the farmers’ mouths, however, with many noticing their hens producing significantly fewer eggs than normal.

It was suggested that chicken feed made by Purina may have been altered to contain lower amounts of protein and minerals, leaving chickens unable to lay eggs. Some farmers even stated that their hens began laying again after they switched from commercial feed to locally produced feed.

A spokesperson for Land O’Lakes, parent company of Purina Animal Nutrition, stated there have been no formulation changes to Purina chicken feed products,22 while others have called for an investigation into what could represent a potential public health and national security crisis.

Rockefeller Foundation Predicted Food Crisis

If you gain control of the food supply, you gain control of the people. This is why any threat to food freedom and security should prompt immediate alarm and calls for the protection of localized, regenerative agriculture.

It’s curious that a report from the Rockefeller Foundation, released in July 2020 and predicting a coming food crisis, hasn’t received more attention, however — especially since its solution centered on the creation of a centralized “nutrition security system.”23

A centralized food system benefits no one but those who control it, and puts consumers at risk. Will Harris, a regenerative farming pioneer who runs White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Georgia, explained:24

“The centralization of food production impoverishes our rural communities as it creates an oligopoly. This centralization of food production is also bad for consumers. This system lacks resilience.

When mega-production facilities that are focused on efficiency break down, consumers’ access to food can become limited, which causes panic. This state of panic allows multinational companies to increase their profits exponentially. When the driving goal of our food production system is efficiency, as opposed to resiliency, consumers suffer.”

Their report, “Reset the Table,”25 was published just one month after the World Economic Forum (WEF) officially announced its plans for a “Great Reset,” and many of the contributors to the Foundation’s paper are WEF members.26 They intend for the current food system to fall apart, so they can then “solve” the problem by introducing a new system based on patented lab-grown synthetic and genetically engineered foods, along with massive insect farms.

‘Resetting the Table’ Puts Food Security at Risk

The Rockefeller Foundation states, “America faces a hunger and nutrition crisis unlike any this country has seen in generations.”27 The Foundation’s “Reset the Table” report calls for “meeting the moment to transform the U.S. food system”28 in order to solve the food crisis. But as The Corbett Report put it:29

“And their proposed solution to this crisis? Subsidies for small farmers? Development of community gardens? A new food sovereignty campaign encouraging people to get their hands dirty and start growing more food themselves?

Of course not. On the contrary, the Rockefeller Foundation wants a further centralization of control over the food supply, including ‘a new, integrated nutrition security system.’ Yes, you read that right, folks: feeding the hungry is now a ‘nutrition security’ problem that can only be solved by massive federal intervention in the food sector.”

If the Rockefeller Foundation having its hands in your ability to purchase the food you need to feed your family doesn’t sit well with you, you’re in good company. A look back at the Rockefeller Foundation’s forays into agriculture reveal why we don’t want history to repeat itself. As Corbett reported:30

“They created the Mexican Agricultural Program, which was criticized from its very inception for trying to standardize and commercialize traditional Mexican farming practices in order to benefit of the Rockefellers and their corporate cronies.

They created the International Basic Economy Corporation in Brazil to industrialize that nation’s agricultural sector, with the explicit aim of hooking its farmers on expensive machinery and Rockefeller petroleum products and finding a sustainable business model in the process.

It was John D. Rockefeller III who, when sitting on the Board of Trustees of the Ford Foundation, convinced his fellow oligarchs to join the ‘Green Revolution’ by founding the Intensive Agriculture District Programme in India, which exacerbated the disparity between rich feudal landowners and poor farming peasants.

And then of course there’s the Rockefeller’s work in Africa, which today takes the form of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa. AGRA’s stated goal is to “elevate the single African voice” on the world stage.

It all sounds nice and fuzzy until you learn that 200 organizations have come together to denounce the alliance and its activities. They claim that the group has not only ‘unequivocally failed in its mission’ but has actually ‘harmed broader efforts to support African farmers.'”

Who and What Else Are Angling to Control Food?

Egg prices reaching unprecedented highs presents a hardship for many working households — but is irrelevant to the likes of Bill Gates — another major player in the quest to control the food supply.

Gates owns more farmland than anyone else in the U.S.31 and was an early backer of fake foods like the Impossible Burger and Beyond Meat.32 The acreage seems earmarked for GE corn and soy crops — the base foods for what will become an increasingly synthetic, ultraprocessed food supply make up of imitation meat and dairy.

The strong recommendation to replace beef with fake meat is also made in Gates’ book,33 a recommendation that stems from an overreaching theme of arrogance and the desire for recolonization and a global empire.

The EAT Forum, co-founded by the Wellcome Trust, also developed a Planetary Health Diet that’s designed to be applied to the global population and entails cutting meat and dairy intake by up to 90%, replacing it largely with foods made in laboratories, along with cereals and plant oils.34

In the U.S., the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development (BIFAD), an advisory board to USAID, is also on board, calling for a global transformation of agriculture and the food supply to include, among other things, “the promotion of insects as sustainable sources of proteins.” Referring to a BIFAD working paper, Corbett explains:35

“USAID’s ‘leverage’ over developing countries — specifically referenced no less than 125 times — gives an insight into the Kissingerian food-as-a-weapon mentality that is the very basis of USAID and its mission. The entire enterprise reeks of a neocolonial landgrab masquerading as ‘philanthropy’ — the kind of territorial taking that people in Africa and elsewhere have been warning about for decades.”

Get Prepared for Survival

At some point in time, the globalist cabal will start using food to control people’s behavior. So, it’s always best to have the resources on hand to survive, including becoming more self-sufficient in the short-term. By creating alternative parallel food systems locally, outside of the globalists’ control, it builds long-term independence. Basic suggestions to build your own food security safety net include:

Secure a potable water source and the means to purify less-than-ideal water sources
Buy shelf-stable and nonperishable foods in bulk
Buy energy backups, such as gas-powered generators and/or solar generator kits like Jackery or Inergy
Get cooking backups such as solar cookers, small rocket stoves, propane-powered camping stoves and 12-volt pots and pans that you can plug into a backup battery
Start a garden and learn some basic food production skills; in terms of fighting back against high egg prices and egg shortages, raising your own flock is by far your best option
Even better, consider joining a community of like-minded individuals who share your concerns about food security and have already developed the skills of growing food. You can contribute your skills to make the community even stronger
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19 Comments
YourAverageJoe
YourAverageJoe
February 17, 2023 7:36 am

I know several people with chicken coops and I often wonder how all these bird flus that we here about seem to bypass everyone’s backyard flock.

Steve Z.
Steve Z.
  YourAverageJoe
February 17, 2023 7:50 am

I know I read somewhere they test for Avian flu by….by…..you guessed it…..the vaunted PCR method.
Some joker with a mission reads the PCR set at 45 cycles and Viola’….all your chickens must be killed.

hardscrabble farmer
hardscrabble farmer
  YourAverageJoe
February 17, 2023 9:39 am

Especially when you consider the narrative.

Wild birds are primarily responsible for spreading the virus, according to experts.

The vast majority of factory farmed chickens never see the light of day while almost all backyard chicken operations live outdoors.

Factory farms lose hundreds of millions of birds, backyard poulterers lose theirs to predators, but rarely to disease.

Anonymous
Anonymous
  hardscrabble farmer
February 17, 2023 11:10 am

EXACTLY

Anonymous
Anonymous
  Anonymous
February 17, 2023 12:33 pm

Eggsactly

Bob P
Bob P
February 17, 2023 8:56 am

Worry not, grasshopper. It’s gonna be fine.

“The average wholesale cost of a dozen large eggs has dropped from a high of $5.38 on December 30 to a current average of $2.73 for a dozen.”

https://scrippsnews.com/stories/wholesale-egg-prices-tank-after-months-of-increases/

Mary Christine
Mary Christine
  Bob P
February 17, 2023 10:24 am

You don’t think they will pass that savings on to the customer. They will lower the price just a bit but it will still be far higher than it was 2 years ago.

Boogie
Boogie
February 17, 2023 9:31 am

“Is the Egg Shortage Another Conspiracy?” I find it hilarious that we need even ask such a question. The everything shortage is all by design. Zee bugs.

ze bugs
ze bugs
  Boogie
February 17, 2023 9:41 am

Agree.

anon a moos
anon a moos
February 17, 2023 9:40 am

Many of the shortages are manufactured crisis designed to instill and gauge the effectiveness of the fear propaganda. Remember toilet paper, shows just how stupid and gullible people really are.

Aiiens, eggs and barroons oh my!!

James
James
  anon a moos
February 17, 2023 11:53 am

“Remember the toilet paper?”

Yep,and laughed like hell as what I saw in Venezuela convinced me to add a lot more to my stocks/no shortage for me!

I also told folks at beginning of scamdemic to stock up on food for tools of freedom/some listened and did well,some now are bitching about prices(though actually get a little better there.).

I have a lot more tp then our little buddy here!

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Feels good man.

BabbleOn
BabbleOn
  James
February 17, 2023 12:14 pm

Prepper List.
-TP lots of it.
-Foil Balloons.
-Super Glue.
-Pizza Boxes and Crayons.
I’m ready! Bring it!

Anonymous
Anonymous
  BabbleOn
February 17, 2023 12:34 pm

– Tons of food, so that the TP has a purpose.

BabbleOn
BabbleOn
  Anonymous
February 17, 2023 12:46 pm

Pizza boxes and crayons are very versatile. I can fight armies with cardboard Kalashnikovs, or draw myself a nice steak dinner. It has extra fibre!

Anonymous
Anonymous
  BabbleOn
February 17, 2023 7:37 pm

You could also bite a Pop-Tart into a gun shape, like that kid who was in trouble for doing it at elementary school:

https://www.google.com/search?q=Joshua+Welch+was+a+second+grader+at+Park+Elementary+School+when+he+was+suspended+for+two+days&source=hp&ei=fh3wY9nfOoSq5NoP2eakgAQ&iflsig=AK50M_UAAAAAY_Arjq1E0RAdALSsNOhRkv2vE7NJvteW&ved=0ahUKEwjZlsrw6Z39AhUEFVkFHVkzCUAQ4dUDCA8&oq=Joshua+Welch+was+a+second+grader+at+Park+Elementary+School+when+he+was+suspended+for+two+days&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAxQAFgAYABoAHAAeACAAQCIAQCSAQCYAQA&sclient=gws-wiz

Luckily, society is safe from the rogue seven-year-old WHITE boy armed with a Pop-Tart: the judge upheld the kid’s two-day school suspension. (eye roll)

Frankly, it will probably turn out to have been the most significant and useful part of the boy’s education.

Abolish the state.

BabbleOn
BabbleOn
  Anonymous
February 17, 2023 10:32 pm

Back in the day I accidently stabbed a classmate. I said he did it to himself to get me in trouble. He got sent to the office.
It was by accident, I meant to punch him reflexively and my pencil was in my hand. Oops…

Runningdog
Runningdog
February 17, 2023 12:12 pm

I raise chickens, process them for meat and sell excess eggs. We also have goats for milk, yogurt and cheese. This summer we are raising pigs. So we are well oriented on raising livestock. The main cause of egg prices increasing is the feed has surpassed 100 percent. No joke, that includes all livestock feed. It is bad, period.

brian
brian
  Runningdog
February 17, 2023 12:24 pm

We did the same

When we were farming on our small acreage all I bought for commercial feed was layer pellet, made in the valley and COB mix which I had the supplier swap the oats for cracked wheat. All the animals got the mix in winters, early spring and late fall.

Our hogs rooted and I fed them culls from the local farms. Chickens scratched and free ranged outside, Highland steer grazed in new pasture we seeded the year before. Rotated our live stock. Hogs rotortilled the soil, chickens cleared out all the pests and all fertilized as they went. Seeded and put the steers in the newly planted pasture when the others finished their jobs. All it takes is a little fore thought and plan to where and when to move things around. Never had any disease or lost livestock to anything but owls. They love chicken.

Eddy O
Eddy O
February 17, 2023 12:26 pm

Here in Cuenca, Ecuador 30 eggs cost between $2.75 and $3.40 depending on size.