Patrick Thomas
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216 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 10 Jul
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The department has come out and outlined some behavior by executives at some of the big egg companies, saying essentially that there was a coordinated effort among executives to try and keep egg prices high as long as they could.
That's what the Department of Justice would say.
So in egg world, there's kind of these massive complexes spread out across rural America that house tens of thousands of hens, in some case, hundreds of thousands of hens.
And we went over this before in past episodes.
Every person eats about an egg a day, right?
I think we went over that, and everybody's got their own.
We have our own personal chicken-laying hens.
And when that gets out of whack one way or the other, too many, too few, it messes with the prices.
You know, we're dealing with live animals.
You can't just turn on and off the sink of eggs, right?
You can't just call up more hens from the bench, so to speak, and bring them online.
Some advocates and some different nonprofit NGO groups in the background, some lawyers, people started questioning.
if the prices that we were seeing at the grocery store went beyond just supply and demand dynamics that the companies were harping on?
Was there other activities going on where the companies were basically never letting a good crisis go to waste, right?
So the backdrop is we just finished up the 2024 election.
Food inflation was a really big topic in that presidential election.
Oh, yeah.
You can almost hear the soundbites.
Eggs were, at the time, the poster child of food inflation.
And the Trump administration wanted to come in and get egg prices down.
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