How to Get Cheap Eggs

The Ag. Sec. has his ideas; I have mine (and mine are better despite being scientifically questionable).

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott vordies. You want to talk about eggs, Yeah, I do.
You're good for you. By the way, Gourmet Club announcement
coming up after ten o'clock this morning, two weeks from
the night. Look forward to telling you about it. This
is Lucy's look on her face saying I don't know
anything about it. I really don't. People ask me, he
isn't tell me, no, I don't. President Trump has an

(00:21):
idea for cheap eggs, and we have more expensive eggs.
The average price for large grade A eggs in American
cities hit a record four dollars and ninety five cents
per dozen last month. I presume when February is done,
they will have gone up a little bit more so.
Wire eggs so relatively expensive, well, because we had a

(00:47):
bird flu outbreak and they had to coal if you
use that phrase when talking about the flocks at poultry farms.
They had to basically erase several flocks of chickens to
stop the spread of the bird flu. So President Trump
had his egg secretary. Isn't that Burgham? Didn't they put? No?

(01:13):
Bergham is Interior Brook Rawlins is the head of the
Agriculture Department and Secretary Rawlins said, here's what we're gonna do.
After DOGE cuts hundreds of millions of dollars in wasteful spending,
some of that money will be used to help bring
down the retail price of eggs. So we're just gonna

(01:35):
now subsidize poultry farmers, saying, just keep the cost down
a little bit. No, no government subsidies. Picking winners and
losers is not the way it should be done. That's
first of all, it's not sustainable. And you're just if

(01:55):
the idea is we need to save taxpayers money, we've
now saved them in one area and shifted it to another.
This is not the right plan, I say, denied. Yeah,
my plan on how to bring down the cost of
eggs is it's a bird flu. We have what one

(02:17):
maybe kind of case of the bird flu jumping from
from aviation and aviation from a and avery to from
avian That's what I was gonna say, from avian to human.
And they're not even sure. They're not even sure, but

(02:38):
let's say it does. Let's say you go when you
eat a raw egg, or you're like, this chicken breast
looks so good. It's marinated, and some mesquite, and I
don't even wanna wait for it to be cooked, and
we just tear into it. Bird flu is the least
of your worries there. But let's say you get the
bird flu. Let's say, what does the bird flu do
to you? Makes you a little sick? How much does

(03:01):
that cost for a dozen eggs? A little sick? Plus
it's not even happening that way, it's not even happening.
And you know who else is not happening for it?
The birds. So the birds get a little bit sick,
but they're still laying eggs, and you can still use
them for legs and thighs, breasts, necks, save the neck

(03:22):
for me, Clark. Wait, you can't eat the eggs. You
know you can. I mean, you gotta cook this stuff.
You fry the eggs, or you boil the eggs, poaching,
or you poach the eggs, you grill them. I don't know.
You cook those, you bake them, they fall right through
the rack. I know it's not easy. You gotta get

(03:43):
a board. So you cook the eggs, you cook the chicken,
and I mean, salmonella is really bad. We don't throw
away all the chicken because someone might have an undercooked
piece of chicken and they get salmonilla. We don't throw
it all out, and it didn't jack up the cost
of chicken. So here's what's happening. They walk around and go,

(04:06):
h what's going on with you, chicken? I heard you cough.
Your eyes look a little watery. How's your throat feel
it's a little sore. Well, and then he starts sharpening
his blade and the chicken's like, well, well, holloa, no, no,
I'm gonna get better. It's just allergies. It's just allergies.
I'm not even sick. It's not bird flus, not bird cold,

(04:27):
not bird coronavirus. It's just allergies. It's that time of year,
some dust in the air. Like you live every day
of dust in the air. Yeah, but this time of
year it's really bad. It's just allergies. If you have
a lozengers, I'll be totally fine. You're ready to lay
those eggs for you on Tuesday? You get them out

(04:47):
to market and I will keep going after that. I'm good.
I am good. I'm the cock of the walk. Baby,
you're a hen if you're laying eggs. Yeah, but I'm
trans hand, so like how about we have a real
conversation about this. And just because let's say you got
a thousand birds out there, one of them's got the

(05:08):
bird flu, Like all right, you all got to die, Like,
can we take a vote? Scott Voyes, Mornings nine to eleven,
Our News Radio eleven ten KFAB