The US has asked its allies, including Germany, to send as many eggs as they can and that's despite the looming threat of escalating tariffs on European imports. But does Germany have its own egg problem?

I’m sure this is going over well after all of the threats of tariffs the Neo-Nazi-salute giving Republicans have given.

  • meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    One thing I’ve been worried about with this egg shortage: aren’t they still a major factor in the production of common vaccines?

    Like, doesn’t the US hold a strategic reserve of millions of eggs to be able to ramp up vaccine production when needed? Is that system still safe?

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    17 hours ago

    Yes, Germans should absolutely deliver lots of extra eggs, personally and ballistically, direct to the White House…

  • Lemmist@lemm.ee
    7·
    17 hours ago

    Is it even possible to export a significant amount of eggs over the ocean?

    • mmddmm@lemm.ee
      4·
      17 hours ago

      Yes. You can keep eggs for weeks, and airplanes make the trip in a few hours.

        • mmddmm@lemm.ee
          3·
          16 hours ago

          That’s the kind of question that is very pertinent in normal times, but that we have no idea what the answer will be tomorrow.

          Normally, no, eggs “never” have such a bad distribution and people so willing into getting them that it’s worth crossing an ocean by plane to get them.

    • NotLemming@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      Americans wash the protective layer off of eggs and so they go bad more quickly.