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Assembly line egg production in a factory farm. Some election post mortems decry the price of eggs, as though any president can wave a magic wand and increase supply. Egg prices skyrocketed in 2022 and have gone up again not because Joe Biden is a bad president but because the H5N1 bird flu decimates flocks. Officials detected it in US poultry farms in January 2022. The bird flu spread to dairy cows in early 2024. In March, USDA reported a “multistate outbreak.” Then on April 1, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) confirmed the “first instance of likely mammal to human spread of HPAI A(H5N1)…

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