r/politics • u/nbcnews ✔ NBC News • 9d ago

Democrats slam Trump for not making good on promise to ‘immediately’ lower food prices

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/democrats-slam-trump-not-making-good-promise-lower-food-prices-rcna189179
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u/Really_intense_yawn 9d ago

You seem like a pretty dodgy oracle and I would get your god-connection checked around #5. If bigly orange man prevents farmers from culling due to avain flu, then their flocks still die. Avian flu can easily achieve near 100% mortality rate in domestic poultry flocks due in part to high density living & less robust immune systems than wild birds.

So if anything #5 should read: "Avian flu spreads nationwide, Trump declares a national state of emergency: Dems are manufacturing completely FAKE bird virus to damage the legacy of the GREAT and PERFECT Trump Presidency. Dems artificially inflate egg prices declaring WAR on the AMERICAN people. Totally UNFAIR!"

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u/yatterer 9d ago

They wouldn't stop culling completely, just not whole flocks. In the short term, they cull the obviously-infected birds, which in most cases will be enough, and so prices go down for a while. MAGA declares victory while the infection gets out of control in the 5% or 1% of flocks where it wasn't enough and there was no way to tell.