Episode 12 - The Great Egg Conspiracy of 2023

Welcome back, Strange Woods walkers! On this episode, we discuss facts and theories on the egg shortage and sky-rocketing prices that have been affecting the US in recent months. Ooooo...conspiracy? Let's crack the case. Let's scramble to find answers. Let's lay to rest any lingering questions. Heehee...egg puns. Okay. Sorry. Moving on.

STOP! INSIDE JOKES AHEAD! If you haven’t gotten to listen to the episode yet, spoiler alert! This post contains lots of stuff that will make waaay more sense if you listen to the episode before or while reading. So if you haven’t already, pump the brakes and listen to the episode or just click above to play so that you can be in on all the shenanigans to follow!

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LISTENER STORY ALERT!!

Helloooooooo intuition. This episode, we had a write-in story about someone who felt like things were off…and they totally were. Spidey senses tingling all over the place.

Our advice: trust your gut. Err on the side of caution, apologize later.

The Incredible...Edible...Expensive...Illusive...Egg

Here. We. Go. Let’s just ask it: what is going on with eggs right now??

Anyone who does any shopping for standard grocery items knows that the price of eggs has skyrocketed over the last several months. The reason given is that an avian flu has killed off a large part of the chicken population in the US, and now there is shortage which has driven up prices significantly. And now those little eggs are a hot comodity…

But is this the whole story? Or is something more sinister going on behind the scenes?

Coinciding with these changes, small farmers and people who keep chickens for personal egg consumption noted decreased and sometimes completely halted laying of eggs by their chickens around September of 2022. We discussed the specific example of keeleys.coladas on TikTok. Parallels have been drawn between the chicken feed she and others were giving their chickens and the lack of eggs produced. After changing the feed, the chickens started producing eggs again, giving rise to the theory that something was wrong with the chicken feed. But is this accidental or deliberate?

Side note: do people not eat boiled and dyed Easter eggs? Is that a thing?

Anyway…back to the discussion. What’s really happening? Is this the result of the avian flu? Is it an innocently bad batch of chicken feed? Is it a strategic plan by a massive corporation to increase egg prices by creating egg shortages? Is this a clever plan to assist a political goal? Is it just a scare tactic or propaganda?

And why they gotta burn the chickens? Stop it.

We here at the Strange Woods Podcast just want to note that animal abuse is both uncool and underreported. If you or anyone you know has encountered animal abuse, please report it. Stand up for our fur and feather friends. Don’t be an animal-abusing douche. It’s sucky.

To report animal abuse:

https://www.humanesociety.org/resources/report-animal-cruelty

Here’s an article on chicken abuse:

Farmed Animal Welfare: Chickens

Some articles and sources:

https://www.newsweek.com/america-egg-shortage-about-get-whole-lot-worse-1777534

Bad chicken feed article:

https://apnews.com/article/north-carolina-ap-fact-check-business-87009c97a59ba36146aa594623dcc6c9

CT Hillandale Fire:

https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/approximately-100000-hens-killed-in-fire-at-hillandale-farms-in-bozrah-doag/2964707/

New Zealand Fire:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/06/fears-of-worsening-egg-shortage-in-new-zealand-as-fire-kills-75000-hens-at-farm

Some other stuff we discussed...

Coke-heads...

Residents of San Cristóbal de las Casas in Chiacas, Mexico drink more than five times the national average of Coca-Cola: around 800 liters of Coca-Cola per person per year! :0

Bruh…

Read all about it here:

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/article/this-small-town-in-mexico-is-addicted-to-coca-cola-it-also-grapples-with-a-deadly-disease/p1m2g5dtd

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/15/coca-cola-country-in-southern-mexico-photo-essay

Weird Coca-Cola products...

Weird chickens...

Black chickens…

And the chickens with bellbottoms!

Here’s some other chicken breeds with feather pants if you want!

7 Best Feather Footed Chicken Breeds

Okay! There’s another one! Hope you all learned some interesting new info today. Where do you stand on the egg-spiracy? And when are you going to buy Jonathan his brisket sandwich from Buccee’s? C’mon. He’s hungry. And there’s “fresh hot brisket on the floooooor!”

Thanks for stopping by! Try not to smell so much like a barbecue butthole. And remember, stay strange!

Brandi Woodward

Peter’s wife. Registered nurse. Uber-fan of The Strange Woods Podcast.

Episode 12 – The Great Egg Conspiracy of 2023