Big Poultry Breeds Bird Flu and asks Consumers to Pay the Price / Boyce Upholt

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🗓️ 14 February 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Boyce Upholt returns to This is Hell! to discuss his piece recently published by the New Republic, "The Frightening Cost of Cheap Eggs: Why paying more for eggs could save us from another pandemic". This episode also features this week in Rotten History and new responses to the Question from Hell. Boyce Upholt is an award-winning freelance writer focused on the way we use and imagine the non-human world. He covers, among other subjects, public lands, exploration, biodiversity, foodways, infrastructure, and the cultural history of ”wilderness.” His work has appeared in The Atlantic, National Geographic, the Oxford American, and many other publications, and has been noted in the Best American Science and Nature series. Boyce won the 2019 award for investigative journalism from the James Beard Foundation. He is currently working on a book about the Mississippi River—a history of what’s been done to it and travelogue showing the results.

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0:16.0	You're welcome to be able to help. making back. This is hell.
0:41.0	Hell. Okay, doke.
0:42.0	Behind every great fortune, why is a great crime?
0:48.0	Because this is hell, and there is a huge fortune like in billions of dollars to be made producing eggs, eggs like from chickens.
1:02.0	And we are all witnessing why that huge fortune is being made
1:05.7	with skyrocketing egg prices here in the United States especially if you buy specialty
1:10.5	eggs like those that are cage-free or organic.
1:14.0	The media has been offering all sorts of reasons why eggs are going up in price.
1:19.0	They've suggested it's caused by high feed and energy costs, high demand, inflation, price gouging,
1:26.7	regulations related to cage-free eggs, growing popularity of high-end eggs,
1:31.6	as well as meatless, and kido diets. Even the war in Ukraine
1:37.0	cross-border egg smuggling and backyard chickens are reported to play a role.
1:42.4	Meanwhile Fox News conspiracy theorists are
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