President Donald Trump has promised to lower food prices, including eggs. But one crack in his plan is that egg prices have not fallen since he took his duty on January 20th.
The Karolina Leavitt’s White House secretary, in her first briefing for news on the camera, on January 28, blamed it for the “inflation policy of former President Joe Biden.”
Leavitt said that the Biden Management Board and the US Department of Agriculture “directed mass murder of more than 100 million chickens, which led to a lack of a chicken supply in this country, that is, a lack of egg supply, which leads to a lack.”
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Leavitta’s statement is partially accurate in terms of drawing millions of chickens, but she left out important details and context about why this happened.
First, chickens were killed to prevent spread highly pathogenic bird flu, or bird flu.
Secondly, longtime USDA policy ejecting a whole flock of birds after the flu’s bird was discovered, including during Trump’s first administration.
Deputy Printing Secretarist White House Anna Kelly headed for politifact back to Leavitt’s news comments.
Egg prices have increased under bidet – with $ 1.60 a dozen in February 2021. At $ 4.10 in December 2024 (show the first and last and last full months), the data of the work statistics show. The prospects for January price of agriculture food announced that egg prices could increase about 20 percent more this year.
Expane spokesman, a consumer prices companies, told News Outlet Axios that a dozen big eggs cost more than $ 7 in some US regions.
From February 8, 2022, when the virus was discovered in a commercial flock, more than 147 million birds, including chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese, died, USDA said.
The information shows that 108 million chickens have died of 2022, including 13 million 2025. It is not clear how euthanized or died from the virus.
From January 29, the bird’s flu was also Discovered in the milk cattlewhich affect 944 herds in 16 countries, show data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. People also tested positively to the virus – 67 confirmed cases were reported in the United States, and one person died, CDC said.
Why are the flock taken away?
Experts told Politifact that birds were taken away to prevent the width of the virus. This protects not only the nearby farm and the poultry industry, but also public health. The Federal Law of 2002, the Law on Animal Health Protection, provides USDA administration for the inspection of animal health and plants to depopulate herds and flocks to stop the spread of the disease.
“If the birds are dead, the virus dies with them,” said Russ Daly, a veterinarian for the Ministry of Health of South Dakota and Professor of South Dakota University.
Pilics contracting the bird flu virus have small chances of survival; 90 percent of up to 100 percent die, usually within 48 hours, CDC said.
Waiting for the hens naturally, it allows more viral loads into the atmosphere, making it more dangerous for agricultural workers and other people who come into contact with the Farm, said Jada Thompson, University of Arkansas Agricultural Economics and Associate Professor.
Is this policy new?
Several veterinary professors told Politifact that depopulation or “outling” of sick birds was a long -standing policy and pointed to the bird flu epidemic for 2015 during Obama’s administration.
Depopulation is the main strategy of control and eradication of USDA for bird flu, said Yuko Sato, a veterinarian and associate professor of Iowa State University.
“This last epidemic is devastating due to the large number of spaces involved since 2022,” said Carol Cardon, a professor of veterinarians of the University of Minnesota and President Avian Health. “But the rule has been there for a long time.”
The 2016 USDA report shows that depopulation in 2015 resulted in 50 million birds killed.
Plan for the response of the House of Flu USDA, updated in May 2017. During Trump’s first administration, includes guidelines for policies based on the flu out flu outage during Obama and the first Trump administration. It said: “The fast depopulation of the infected poultry is crucial to stopping the transmission of the virus and must be given a priority.”
During the outbreak of bird flu in March 2017, the USDA report states: “Almost 253,000 birds are depopulated.”
How does depopulation work?
USA encourages farmers who notice the signs of the disease to contact the USDA or their state veterinarian. The patterns taken from animals are tested and the USDA confirms cases; Depopulation usually takes place within 48 hours from the confirmation of the virus.
USDA pays farmers for killed birds.
“It is at the best interest of the farmers to do so quickly, because the USA provides compensation for the payment of euthanized birds, but not those that are naturally dying,” Daly said.
Our judgment
Leavitt said there is a lack of eggs because the Biden administration “directed mass murder of more than 100 million chickens”.
During the administration of Biden, more than 100 million egg laying died died of bird flu or was killed to stop the spread of the virus. This led to egg deficiency and higher prices.
Depopulation is a long -standing practice to prevent bird flu from spread, agricultural experts said. Government documents show that depopulation was a bird’s flu strategy for the USDA during Trump’s first term and during the 2015 outburst under Obama.
Leavitt’s statement is partially accurate, but omits important details and context. We evaluate it Half true.
