comment: >
  
  Record profits for egg companies who have supposedly lost a large percentage of birds to a flu.
  If their profits were the same or less, it’s believable.  But not record profits.
  Not hard to see the correlation.
context: "The real culprit behind this 138% hike in the price of a carton of eggs," says the letter, "appears to be a collusive scheme among industry leaders to turn inflationary conditions and an avian flu outbreak into an opportunity to extract egregious profits reaching as high as 40%."
  
  Nothing wrong with investigation of the facts. >
  
  It’s nothing that [checks notes] absolutely everyone [edit: in the US] hasn’t done, turning temporary Covid setbacks into rampant inflation, across the board. And is labor getting any of it? No. No they’re not. >
  
  Eggs in Canada are the same price as they've always been. >
  
  Not in BC. 7 bucks in Fraser Valley where we make the things >
  
  Safeway in Alberta has the most basic eggs for about $4 and up to $7 for the fancy ones, which is on par with usual prices. >
  
  XL eggs used to be less than $4 a year ago, and they are more than that here now. If I had to guess, eggs are up 20% or so in the last year. That’s still a far cry from what’s happening in the states, thankfully.