(C) Common Dreams
This story was originally published by Common Dreams and is unaltered.
. . . . . . . . . .



Is Bird Flu the Only Reason Egg Prices Are Soaring? [1]

['Danielle Kaye', 'Julie Creswell']

Date: 2025-02-25

The calls, texts and emails start coming in before 6 in the morning: restaurants, bakeries and others desperate to find eggs.

Brian Moscogiuri is an egg broker. A vice president for the wholesale company Eggs Unlimited, he works the phone in his home office in Toms River, N.J., until late into the evening, trying to connect hopeful buyers with farms that have eggs to spare.

But as avian influenza has led to egg shortages and record wholesale prices — an average of more than $8 a dozen, up from $2.25 last fall — Mr. Moscogiuri’s job has been less making matches and more providing therapy, he said.

“The buyers are struggling,” Mr. Moscogiuri said. “They’re looking at eggs that cost three or four times the typical amount.”

[END]
---
[1] Url: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/business/egg-prices-bird-flu-producers.html

Published and (C) by Common Dreams
Content appears here under this condition or license: Creative Commons CC BY-NC-ND 3.0..

via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds:
gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/commondreams/

You are viewing proxied material from magical.fish. The copyright of proxied material belongs to its original authors. Any comments or complaints in relation to proxied material should be directed to the original authors of the content concerned. Please see the disclaimer for more details.