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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Which Came First, the Bird Flu or the Egg?

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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Politics, Daily News, News Commentary, News

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

As Thanksgiving approaches the price of eggs is spiking again. But it wasn’t just inflation this time – it was also the rising number of cases of avian flu. How can the USDA, FDA, and CDC contain an outbreak in a country that both hates taking preventative measures and won’t tolerate any disruption in their food supply chain?   Guest: Marcia Brown, food and agriculture reporter at POLITICO. Want more What Next? Join Slate Plus to unlock full, ad-free access to What Next and all your other favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the What Next show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Thank you. Visit southernenvironment.org. Marsha, talk to me about eggs.

1:21.1

Yes, eggs.

1:31.3

Marsha Brown covers food and agriculture over at Politico. It's almost Thanksgiving. How many eggs are you using?

1:35.3

Well, so my dad has had the menu planned for probably three weeks at this point.

1:41.3

And we use eggs in all kinds of things including stuffing.

1:46.0

I have three dozen eggs in my fridge right now.

1:49.0

Well, last week when I went to go shop for eggs in Washington, D.C. where I live,

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