Where'd the Eggs Go?

How to keep eggs and butter without refrigeration.

Bare shelves.

Finally, the shortages some of us have been warning about since 2020 are starting to show up in stores. People seem surprised that eggs are scarce although more than 40 million egg-laying chickens have been killed in the US as a result of the current outbreak of avian flu. This according to USDA data.

Note, I didn’t say the chickens died of avian flu - I said that they had been culled as a result of a policy that requires entire flocks be destroyed if just one chicken tests positive for avian flu.

Many cases of avian flu are being “identified” using PCR. Kary Mullis¹, Nobel Prize recipient and inventor of the PCR, had this to say about diagnosing illness based on PCR.

In short, using PCR, you can find whatever you want to find.

I hope that you’re connecting the dots between humans and these poor chickens. It’s something to think about, if you’re the kind of person who thinks - which is rare these days.

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