https://www.dw.com/en/us-trump-administration-sues-california-over-egg-prices/a-73220925

US President Donald Trump's administration sued California officials over higher egg prices on Wednesday in a Los Angeles federal court.

"The State of California has contributed to the historic rise in egg prices by imposing unnecessary red tape on the production of eggs," the lawsuit said.

Trump has repeatedly vowed to bring down egg prices, which have soared largely due to a major bird flu outbreak. The price increases have also stoked consumer anxieties around inflation and the rising cost of living.

The State of California, Governor Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Rob Bonta, and other state officials were named in the lawsuit.

The Trump administration said California's regulation of chicken and egg farms and its anti-animal cruelty laws were creating "unnecessary red tape" that has raised egg prices throughout the country.

“Americans across the country have suffered the consequences of liberal policies causing massive inflation for everyday items like eggs,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi in a statement

The lawsuit said the federal Egg Products Inspection Act of 1970 allows the US Departments of Agriculture, Health and Human Services to regulate eggs in order to protect the health and welfare of consumers. It also requires "national uniformity" in egg safety standards.
What are California's regulations for egg farms?

California has passed several laws including voter initiatives to regulate egg and chicken farms including ones that prevent farmers from packing chickens together tightly.

The laws require hens to be kept in enclosures where they can "lie down, stand up, fully extend [their] limbs, and turn around freely."

They were aimed to reduce the risk of foodborne disease and reduce animal cruelty.

The lawsuit says California can regulate farms in the state, but cannot impose these requirements on eggs from other states.

In 2014, California was sued by the six states of Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Alabama, Kentucky and Iowa over its egg regulations, but the states lost the lawsuit.

In 2023, pig farmers had sued one of the California voter initiatives from 2018 which created minimum space requirements for pigs, cows and chickens. They said it also regulated pig farmers from other states.

The Supreme Court preserved the initiative.

>>1419282 (OP)
Nice to see that the trump administration is actually going after price gougers

>>1419282 (OP)
>egg prices high because of bird flu
>Trump fires guys in charge of fighting bird flu
>sues California for doing things to fight bird flu
>because California is raising egg prices you see
Fucking christ.

>>1419284
Eggcellent news! I hope they crack the monopoly on eggs. By now, California is scrambling to find a way to settle out of court. I, personally hope Trump doesn't go over easy on these prices gougers. Judges should come down hard, boil these guys for fluffing up egg prices. You know what i mean, really whip them into shape.

>>1419287
And another thing. I don't care how much eggstraneous b.s. they want to use as an eggscuse. No way will omalette them salt and pepper their way out of this. I bet they are way too chicken to even show up in court.

>>1419282 (OP)
I thought that egg prices were already the lowest they've been in years, or wasn't it that the price of eggs doesn't actually matter? Its hard to keep up when the narrative changes constantly.

>>1419287
Nice yolk.
But in all seriousness, I totally agree — this shell game has gone on long enough. It's time we poach the profiteers and make sure justice isn’t just half-baked. They thought they could just omelette slide, but now they’re walking on eggshells. Hopefully the prosecution doesn’t get scrambled and lets them eggscape. We need a crackdown so hard it leaves them sunny side down. No more yolking around — let’s fry their shady schemes and serve justice sunny-side-up!

>>1419286
How does California telling other states how they can produce eggs fight the bird flu?

>>1419286
>Trump fired the guy who would have stopped this and replaced him with a crony
Fucking christ it's like you people have a limited pool of fake arguments to draw from and you just keep reusing them and filling in the blanks for the use case like a game of Mad Libs or something (pun intended)

>>1419290
I say, I say.....California, here I come
Right back where this chick started from
Where nests of the best hatch in the spring
Each morning at dawning, roosters sing and everything

>>1419282 (OP)
Eggs are back to $3 in the flyover states. Democunts might want to reconsider their vote if blue states are electioneering by screwing folks on egg prices.

>>1419306
Guys. If you want to be technical it was DOGE.
You keep hearing the same arguments because they keep being true.

>>1419313
Trump fired the bird flu guy and replaced him with doge? Wild.

>>1419313
In the insane mind of left wing lunatics these are the truths.
Nobody respects your opinions.

>>1419312
The idea that blue states have more chickens than red states is silly.

>>1419282 (OP)
Hey is he also gonna tell RFK to fuck off with his idea of "Hey lets infect all the chickens with avian flu" before he lets this whole fucking egg shortage happen again?

>>1419340
No.

>>1419324
Blue states are so much better than red states that we tend to be better than them at everything.
shills point to texas a lot to try to pretend they can keep up, but texas is a pile of shit barely held up by oil money

>>1419340
>chicken gets avian flu
>broilers unaffected in market weight or time to market
>layer production may decrease slightly for a few days
vs
>cull the entire flock and incinerate
>no broilers at all for 7 weeks
>no eggs at all for 18 weeks
That's what Biden did to the cost of eggs in 2024.

>>1419819
actually that was hunter's penis

>>1419819
why didn't you tell the egg companies sooner?
if only they were deliberately infecting their birds this entire time
do you know how much money you cost America? Why do you hate Americans so much?

>>1419289
>egg prices were already the lowest they've been in years
3 CCR § 1320.1
§ 1320.1. Egg-laying Hen Confinement.
(b) Commencing January 1, 2024, any person engaged in business in the state as an egg producer, or any out-of-state egg producer that is keeping, maintaining, confining, and housing an egg-laying hen for the purposes of egg production for human food as shell eggs or liquid eggs for commercial sale in California, shall hold a valid certification issued pursuant to Article 5 of this Chapter as a certified operation.

>>1419824
No person shall knowingly engage in a commercial sale within the state of shell eggs or liquid eggs for human food if it is the product of an egg-laying hen that was confined in an enclosure that fails to comply with all of the following standards:
(1) The enclosure shall allow the egg-laying hen to lie down, stand up, fully extend limbs, and turn around freely.
(2) An enclosure shall be a cage-free housing system that complies with all of the following:
(A) The enclosure shall be an indoor or outdoor controlled environment within which hens are free to roam unrestricted;
(B) The enclosure shall provide enrichments that allow hens to exhibit natural behaviors, including, at a minimum, scratch areas, perches, nest boxes, and dust bathing areas;
(C) Employees can provide care while standing within the egg-laying hens' usable floorspace;
(D) And the enclosure shall provide the minimum amount of usable floorspace per hen required by the 2017 edition of the United Egg Producers' Animal Husbandry Guidelines for U.S. Egg-laying Flocks: Guidelines for Cage-Free Housing, hereby incorporated by reference, as follows:

>>1419825
(i) Multitiered aviaries in which hens have access to multiple elevated platforms shall provide a minimum of one (1) square foot of usable floorspace per hen;
(ii) Partially slatted systems in which hens have access to elevated flat platforms shall provide a minimum of one (1) square foot of usable floorspace per hen;
(iii) Single-level all-litter floor systems bedded with litter in which hens have limited or no access to elevated flat platforms shall provide a minimum of one and one-half (1.5) square feet of usable floorspace per hen; and
(iv) Any other cage-free housing system not described in this section shall provide a minimum of one (1) square foot of usable floorspace per hen in systems that provide hens with access to vertical space and shall provide a minimum of one and one-half (1.5) square feet of usable floorspace per hen in systems that do not provide hens access to vertical space.
(3) Exceptions to the requirements of this section are specified in section 25992 of the Health and Safety Code and Article 4 of this Chapter.
>why are egg prices high in California??

>>1419819
Good post

>muh states rights

>>1419827
Oh no, how horrible
each chicken has to have a square foot to wander around in, with an extra half of a square foot if its also expected to shit in that area
Aren't chickens about a square foot in size? It seems like all this does is stop cheap retards from keeping chickens immobilized in a cage shitting out eggs until it dies

for when the shill replies, I'm also fine with laws that increase the price of food like not allowing pigs to be fed poisonous trash and pasteurizing milk

>>1419840
You can make your own decisions if good or bad. However that is the reason for the price difference in California.

>>1419882
>However that is the reason for the price difference in California
Its okay to cheap out on everything around you, but some people enjoy not having to worry about diseased or tainted food. Food thats full of the nutrients you're buying it for because its not raised as cheaply as possible to deliver a low quality product.
You know, First World people.

>>1419282 (OP)
Can someone explain why we've decided to make eggs the most important economic metric this cycle?

>>1420011
Eggs are complete nutrition and a common ingredient in many dishes. Additionally they are very cheap and efficient. You environmental losers should love eggs for their feed efficiency alone, efficiency that skyrockets with backyard chickens that can eat insects, table scraps and wild greens and grasses.