Thu. 01/26 - Eggflation: Price-Gouging on Eggs and... Splash Mountain Water?

Is the huge increase in the price of eggs being caused by price-gouging and not avian flu? Plus, why we need to be paying attention to avian flu even beyond its relation to egg prices. And people are selling bottles of water from the recently-closed Splash Mountain on eBay. Links: November 2022 episode on egg and chicken prices (Cool Stuff Ride Home) High egg prices should be investigated, U.S. farm group says (Reuters) Egg price spike prompts demands for price-gouging probe (CBS News)  Letter to the FTC Chair (Farm Action) WTF Is Going on With Absurd Egg Prices? Corporate Greed, Group Tells FTC (Vice) $18 a dozen: how did America’s eggs get absurdly expensive? (The Guardian) Britain’s broken egg industry shows the price of food inflation (Reuters) Ioan Humphrey's perspective from farmers (ThatWelshFarmer, Twitter) Bird flu outbreak in mink sparks concern about spread in people (Nature) Deaths of thousands of wild birds from avian flu is ‘new Silent Spring’ (The Guardian)  I Lived Like a 1940's WARTIME HOUSEWIFE for 48 HOURS! (Sage Lilleyman, YouTube) Disney Fans Are Selling Splash Mountain Water After Ride Closes (Kotaku) Disney’s Splash Mountain Closed. Now Superfans Are Selling the Water. (NY Times) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices