White House economist gives plan to control avian flu, lower egg prices after Biden admin ‘killed ch

[mystery-ak]

February 16, 2025 1:56pm EST
White House economist gives plan to control avian flu, lower egg prices after Biden admin ‘killed chickens’
Egg prices up 15% since January
 By Stephen Sorace FOXBusiness

The White House is working toward a plan to control the avian flu, which will help lower egg prices that have skyrocketed due to inflation and how the Biden administration "killed all the chickens" to contain the spread of the disease, National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett said Sunday.

Hassett appeared on CBS’ "Face the Nation," where he said that he and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins are "working with all the best people in government, including academics around the country and around the world" to have a plan ready for President Donald Trump next week regarding the disease.

"The Biden plan was to just, you know, kill chickens, and they spent billions of dollars just randomly killing chickens within a perimeter where they found a sick chicken," he said.

Hassett said the plan being worked on in the Trump administration is to "have better ways with biosecurity and medication and so on, to make sure that the perimeter doesn't have to kill the chickens."

"So having a smart perimeter is what we're working on, and we're finalizing the ideas about how to do that with the best scientists in government," Hassett said. "And that's the kind of thing that should have happened a year ago, and if it had, then egg prices would be, you know, a lot better than they are now."

Hassett also addressed the "very large" inflation problem, which he attributed to former President Joe Biden.

"We saw the consumer price index come out, and we found out that the stagflation that was created by the policies of President Biden was way worse than we thought," Hassett said. "Over the last three months, across all goods, including eggs, the average inflation rate was 4.6%, way above target, and an acceleration at the end of the Biden term."

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[Smokin Joe]

Just shut down the lab that keeps pooting out new bugs.


Might save a grundle in the long run, too.

[Wingnut]

It should be noted not a single person has contracted "Bird flu" thru eating eggs or drinking pasteurized, (or to my knowledge Raw) milk. 

Stop killing chickens and give the CDC the bird.

[Smokin Joe]

The problem I see is that the birds which might survive (resistant to the Flu) are being summarily executed with the ones that would not make it.

That said, the standard containment methodology for an outbreak of disease among chickens was to cull (kill and dispose of) all the birds in that barn. There were some pretty serious precautions taken to avoid carrying any bug from one barn to another.

[mountaineer]

Robby Starbuck
@robbystarbuck
Democrats put all their eggs into one basket after the election and it was to talk about egg prices. If this price decline continues, all they’ll have left is whining about DOGE. Democrats are probably trying to figure out how to kill more chickens now.
9:21 AM · Mar 11, 2025

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