• trollercoaster
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    2091 month ago

    Can’t make this shit up.

    Hey Denmark we want Greenland and we will take it. - The US

    Hey Denmark we also want eggs, please send some, OK? - Also the US

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      They should take the moral high ground and refrain from adding tariffs.

      On the other hand, the correct capitalist move is to raise the price when demand outstrips supply. $30 a dozen sounds fair for highly sought-after imported, organic, artisanal, delicately encapsulated Danish hen ovi (oops). /s

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      1 month ago

      We need a volunteer to travel to Washington for negotiating a tremendous egg deal (the best in the world) only to throw a rotten (preferrably ostrich) egg into the orange turd’s face during the press conference.

  • Cyrus Draegur
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    1 month ago

    how’bout no.

    how’bout FUCK the united states.

    HOW’BOUT THAT.

    actually, trade New England to denmark’s ownership in exchange for the eggs. please. fucking please. get us out of here.

  • @[email protected]
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    451 month ago

    Honestly leaders should bring trump eggs when they visit the white house. And always start with my mother’s heard you have problems getting eggs so she insisted I bring a half dozen.😜

  • @[email protected]
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    751 month ago

    This is classic America. I don’t have evidence for this but I have to assume that a large part of why America is having a egg crisis and other nations aren’t is because of the absolutely horrendous and unsanitary conditions of our factory farms. Rather than look around the world and see that better living conditions contribute to a higher quality product, better lives for the animals, and lowered risk of massive disease outbreaks (which could become a human pandemic by the way); we’d rather ship in perishable goods from countries who have already figured that out. Our insane thirst for quarterly earnings reports prevents us from even considering something that would be a long term sustainable solution because it would be ever so slightly more expensive up front

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      171 month ago

      America’s unstoppable thirst for short-term profit is why they currently have a corporate-backed fascist in office that is threatening to invade US’s (supposed) allies to pillage their resources and economies.

      Whether they do or not, the US as we have known it is in its death throes. They have surrendered nearly all of their soft power and made themselves a trade pariah. Entire industries are going to crumble as megacorps swoop in like vultures to devour the carcasses as the walls of their economy close in and the whole building collapses. It is in everyone’s best interest to move their interests and money as far away from the US as possible.

    • @[email protected]
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      381 month ago

      Also we havent culled nearly enough chickens to justify this magnitude of price increases and this is very clearly collusion from the ~4 major egg suppliers.

  • RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️
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    Besides all the other insane shit we’ve heard from USA in the last few months, and the Nord Stream pipelines sabotage, Danish eggs aren’t exactly dirt cheap. Also, we’re more known for our pork production.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      41 month ago

      Pork, porn and booze. I’m sure the boycott by Muslim majority countries you experienced a few years back hit those industries really hard.

      :-D

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    So they want Greenland AND eggs?

    Whats next? B&O? Volbeat? Carlsberg? (Although anyone that tried their pide known as budweiser know the won’t be able to handle Carlsberg)

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      31 month ago

      I’m guessing Greenland is our strategic position to begin enveloping Canada, then we can direct our attention East.

      Sorry.

      Also we have Carlsbad at home

      • @[email protected]
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        61 month ago

        Greenland houses some key NATO sites that monitor the arctic. These are mostly used to make sure Russia stays in Russia.

        The other non-Russian factor that I don’t see people discussing is climate change. The northern areas are going to become more habitable and having Greenland and Canada means the US population has somewhere to go. This is the motivation for a lot of things they aren’t talking about because it is evil.

        You can choose which evil is motivating them I believe it’s both.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 month ago

          I think Trump wants control of trade routes (specifically, the Northwest Passage). That also explains why he’s going after the Panama Canal at the same time.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 month ago

          The northern areas are going to become more habitable

          If the AMOC collapses they’ll become significantly less habitable, and that’s looking more likely to happen by the year.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 month ago

          I have considered that USA would have to migrate North. To plan for it while denying that anything is wrong is true evil.

          • @[email protected]
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            41 month ago

            It very much is. Canada will be housing much of the human population in the Northwestern quadrant of Earth in a few decades. We really need to get our shit together and quash racism if we want humanity to survive.

  • @[email protected]
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    771 month ago

    Sounds like just another distraction from meaningful issues, given that actual eggs from Canada and Mexico are being turned away.

  • trollercoaster
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    81 month ago

    Aren’t the US and EU standards on how to produce and sell eggs so incompatible that it’s illegal to import eggs from the EU into the US?

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      American eggs are required by regulations to be washed. This includes wholesale.

      European egg producers are not going to invest in washing machines for a temporary market. America needs to either accept a breach of their own regulations and wash the eggs themselves, or offer a price that makes it worthwhile for the European producers to follow American regulations.

      Overall, with potential tariffs and additional cost for transport and washing, it seems like a bad solution. It would probably be easier for US to produce more eggs themselves.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 month ago

      What do you mean? They have to many nutrients and good stuff in them for the American stomach?

      • trollercoaster
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        121 month ago

        American regulations require eggs to be washed, which destroys their natural barrier against germs.

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        11 month ago

        In Germany, they aren’t refrigerated either. I think this is an EU wide thing.

    • RedSnt 👓♂️🖥️
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      31 month ago

      Says something about USA that both the eggs and chicken meat has to be chlorine washes before consumption, I wish I didn’t think about it so often.

  • @[email protected]
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    191 month ago

    We don’t need more eggs. We’re producing the exact same amount as always. The regulations that stop the monopoly from raising prices are no longer enforceable as the regulatory body is gone/understaffed/is under the control of said monopoly (or their cronies)