Trump isn’t the one playing chicken with egg prices.
The idea of delighted chickens clucking freely in verdant pastures and picking at grubs may appeal to American consumers and food rights activists. However, suggesting that the “cage-free” label liberates egg layers from industrial confinement is a marketing illusion. Birds are provided a little more space, but the health benefits for poultry are unproven, while consumer costs are unquestionably pushed substantially higher.
Animal Rights Eggheads?
The trendy blame-shifting to Donald Trump for all things unpleasant obscures the reality that no president can dictate grocery store prices (despite Kamala Harris’ pledge to do precisely that). Meanwhile, animal rights fantasists have implemented feel-good policies in numerous states that compound the impacts of bird flu on…
