Some thoughts on the egg crisis.

I notice on the news that Mexico has an egg surplus and egg prices are very cheap in Mexico. Why aren’t we bringing eggs from Mexico to bring prices down?

Now before you give me the party line,” the eggs might carry a disease like bird flu”. I am asking you to think and be candid. Wisdom comes not just from being alive for many years. It comes from learning lessons and not repeating the same mistakes. I will give you two examples.

1) Avocados. For 80 years we had a ban on Avocados from Mexico because “they might carry a disease that will destroy our orchards “. We now know that was a lie. We started importing avocados as part of nafta and no pest infected our trees. But the California avocado industry collapsed because prices dropped. We now know avocado growers knew they couldn’t compete with the price and quality of avocados from Mexico , almost 50% of the worlds avocado supply comes from Mexico.

2) Marijuana. Now rebranded to a much more marketable name, Cannabis. For 70 years it was demonized. A gateway drug they said. It was brought in from Colombia and Mexico. Those evil drug traffickers. They said Colombian Gold was powerful and destroying the fabric of American culture. We must ban it and jail anyone that has it. All Colombian gold ever did for me was give me a headache and ruin a few shirts from the hot seeds that popped and burned holes in my clothes. Dirt weed.

Today the best weed in the world is grown right here in California. The government collects $4billion in taxes from cannabis sales every year. I read we export cannabis to Colombia, Lmao.

The UK is the worlds largest producer and exporter of cannabis.

So why aren’t we really allowing eggs from Mexico to keep prices down? What’s the real reason? And I’m not saying we should do that, I’m just asking what the real reason could possibly be?

8 Comments

Java

Feb 25

Wife went to Costco yesterday. Lone for eggs was the length of the building. Doubled around and came back

And typical of her. She decided to say forget it and wandered around the store buying other things. In one of the aisles happened to notice that aisle led into the same section they had the eggs from a different angle or entry point.

She wandered down the aisle. Into the egg section. Grabbed her eggs. Checked out. Meanwhile there were hundreds still in line for hours like the old breadlines. Waiting for their eggs.

I asked if she was proud of herself. Probably didn’t need to. She clearly was

Daystalker

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Ya, I feel you, same way at my house. I always get mad at stuff like this. My biggest pet peeve is when I tell her to take the next exit, and she all of a sudden goes into the fast lane to blow by all the cars and then swoops in across all lanes at the last second on the exit after pissing everyone off, and then I look around and we are in the same spot at the light as we would have been if she just stayed in the lane and chilled.