Why Are Eggs So Expensive? Hint: It’s Not Just Bird Flu—It’s Corporate Greed

Why Are Eggs So Expensive? Hint: It’s Not Just Bird Flu—It’s Corporate Greed

Egg prices are out of control. Again. But before you start blaming bird flu and backyard chickens, let me break it down for you:

Three Reasons Your Eggs Are So Damn Expensive

1. Bird Flu Is Not the Main Culprit

Yes, bird flu exists. Yes, when a farm gets hit, they have to cull their entire flock. But large-scale egg farms replace their hens every 2-3 years anyway because older hens lay fewer eggs. The cycle continues, and new flocks are up and running within 9 months. So while bird flu affects supply, it's not the catastrophe Big Egg wants you to think it is.

2. Everything Costs More—And Farmers Are Feeling It

The cost of everything that goes into producing eggs has skyrocketed:

Feed costs? Up 50% since 2020.

Labor costs? Higher.

Transport costs? Higher.

Packaging? That cheap little egg carton that used to cost 21 cents in 2020? It’s now 35 cents.

Farms have to eat those costs (no pun intended), and naturally, those costs get passed on to you. But even that isn’t the biggest reason.

3. The Real Reason? Corporate Greed.

Let’s be real. Someone’s making bank off your $9 eggs, and it ain’t the farmer.

At every stage—from the farm, to the distributor, to the grocery store—middlemen are adding their markup.

Instead of adjusting for actual cost increases, corporations are stacking extra profit on top.

Egg prices should be high, but not this high.

So What Now?

Big Egg wants you to think this is just supply and demand, but it's really corporate America using inflation as an excuse to price-gouge you.

Your breakfast just became a luxury item, not because of bird flu, not because of farmers—but because some execs wanted a bigger bonus.

Enjoy your $9 omelet, folks.