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If You Care About Record Egg Prices, You Should Care About Corporate Consolidation

February 20, 2025/

Egg corporations have too much power to exploit disruptions like bird flu to push up prices. Bird flu also hits harder on massive, consolidated farms: recent outbreaks on just 10 large farms could take out 18 million hens, or 6% of the U.S. egg laying population.
by Claire Kelloway / Food & Power


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