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Feb. 28, 2025 - The David Knight Show
16:22
BigEgg’s Conspiracy with USDA: A Capitalist Version of Stalin’s Holodomor
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as i said at the top of the hour you know i'm starting to see what is happening here with the and this began under biden you know that their professional wrestling tag team match One of them starts it and hands it off to the other one to complete it, you know.
And so that's what I see happening here.
Trump is going right down the same path, even accelerating what Biden was doing in terms of using the FDA to kill our food supply, the USDA. And as well as the FDA, but especially the USDA in terms of this culling stuff.
And as I said before, it's kind of like the Holodomor, the deliberate plan of Stalin to bring people into submission by starving him.
And he goes to the very breadbasket of the Soviet Union and creates starvation there.
Mao did the same thing to consolidate his power.
He called it the Great Leap Forward.
And he created massive programs of starvation.
Nobody asked, you know, the kids didn't ask in the 1950s, eat your food, all the food on your plate.
You know, there's kids starving in China.
Why were they starving?
Because of communism.
They didn't finish that.
And so I see what these people are doing, Democrats and Republicans.
You know, they're trying to bring starvists into submission.
And, of course, if you go for the eggs, That is such a foundational part of our diet.
So many things include eggs.
And it's not just people eating eggs directly, but it's all the things that the eggs go into.
As a matter of fact, this was sent to me by Madra.
By the way, she also sent the article where I was talking about the Sovereign Wealth Fund.
And that was an excellent find.
Thank you for sending that to me.
So she said, record profits.
Record profits.
And we're going to show you just how big the record profits are.
As a matter of fact, there's an article from the New York Post talking about how big these profits are.
And there is a group of farmers that are talking about the big egg producers.
And guess what?
These big egg producers have already been found guilty once before of conspiracy to raise egg prices.
How about that?
Of course, we can see where this stuff is happening, but I mean, they actually have been charged and found guilty of a conspiracy in the past to do exactly what this is.
The price of eggs rose by 53% between January of 2024 and January of 2025. But during the same period, the average price of fresh and frozen chicken parts rose by just 0.8%.
So it's essentially flat.
The price is not going up on the chicken meat, but the price of the eggs went up by 53%.
So what's up with that?
Well, they said layers of all ages are being depopulated, leading to long waits for the farms to get back online.
And, of course, this is a bipartisan agenda.
You know, Trump has kept up this pace, actually increased it somewhat.
Why isn't the chicken meat going up less than 1% when The price of eggs went up by 53%.
Well, the answer is, in one word, decentralization.
There are a lot more of the broilers, as they call them, the chicken meat, 796 million of them, and they are distributed into a lot more.
Smaller farms.
The fact that it's more than twice as many and the fact that they are spread out into farms that are maybe a fifth to a tenth the size of the egg farms.
That's the issue.
That's the issue.
So it's a lot of decentralization.
That's what we need in our food supply.
And so that's a big part of what's wrong with this egg situation.
And that is something that the USDA is exploiting and making worse.
The centralization of egg production.
He said eggs will prove to be inelastic because there's no good substitutes for them, especially for those who need them for recipes and for other products.
So they've got us.
They went to something that is very fundamental, and they start attacking us.
It's highly centralized.
Just a few people have it.
And the chickens are a massive concentration of chickens into just a few farms.
And the production of the eggs into just a few organizations.
And so they go for the greatest leverage and the greatest visibility.
Because I still say that a big part of this is to...
They're not just looking at vaccinating hundreds of millions of chickens.
They want to vaccinate all animals.
This article from the New York Post.
The U.S.'s biggest egg producer is raking in...
Profits as supermarket prices are surging, says a farm advocacy group.
The nation's biggest egg producer is raking in profits, and it's partly because the company has been deliberately keeping a lid on supply, says a farm advocacy group.
The big company is CalMain Foods.
It's taking advantage of the avian flu crisis, or the alleged crisis, to raise prices, amass record profits, and to consolidate market power.
It says, Farm Action.
They alleged this in a letter that they sent to the Federal Trade Commission, as well as to the Department of Justice.
Do you think that the Trump people are going to do anything about this?
I don't think so.
And I think it will show their true colors, at least to these people who are watching it.
While U.S. egg farms have been destroyed, some 115 million hens over 24 months to stop the spread of Deja flu.
The largest suppliers are showing, quote, a remarkable unwillingness, unquote, to invest in expanding their flocks, according to this letter that they sent to the FTC and to the Department of Justice.
In some New York City supermarkets, the price for a dozen regular eggs has hit or surpassed $10 per dozen.
Farm Action is a group that is backed by smaller farmers to take aim at corporate monopolies.
They claim that leading egg producers are keeping the supply of new egg-laying hens stagnant in order to prolong their two-year run of record profits.
We see the USDA, probably just like we see the FDA, captured by the agencies that they're supposed to regulate.
CalMain, the only major publicly held egg producer with brands including Land O'Lakes and Eggland's Best, kept its production stable at approximately 1.1 billion dozen eggs a year from 2021 to 2024, according to the farmer-led non-profit's analysis.
They said the company's gross profits were up by 237%, and they shot up by 646% from 2021. To 2023. So, you know, when you look at this, that is a tip that you've got a monopoly already, right?
If egg prices are soaring, they would want to take advantage of that and sell more of them.
Unless they've got a monopoly, right?
If they don't have any competition that is going to step into the gap, they just sit back and they enjoy the higher profits.
And so that in and of itself.
Shows that there is a monopoly, an oligarchy, really.
Instead of increasing their flux, five companies have plowed their windfalls into gobbling up their competitors, according to the letter.
So they keep the prices high, they buy up competitors and shut them down to make an egg shortage.
And they said Cal Maine Foods acquired six companies in 2023 alone.
The other companies that are colluding with CalMain are Rose Acre Farms, Daybreak Foods, Hillandale Farms, and Versova Holdings, said a spokesperson for Farm Action.
The U.S. egg-laying flock has yet to return to its pre-epidemic size of around 330 million hens, as the egg industry has, quote, failed to meaningfully expand the number of fertilized eggs placed in incubators and the number of chicks hatched, according to the letter.
During the 2014-2015 bird flu, over 35 million hens in less than a year were lost, but they made a full recovery from the outbreak.
This time around, there is no recovery in sight after two years.
As a matter of fact, the Trump administration, for the first month, they killed another 19 just this last month.
They were saying the entire time they had that bird flu epidemic, they had 35 million that were killed.
And when you look, when I've searched, To see how many were being killed in other countries, I would find these articles talking about, well, they euthanized 30,000 birds here, this country did, you know, over a year or something like that.
You look at what we're doing.
We're doing tens of millions every month.
And that's continuing from Biden to Trump.
In 2023, Cal Maine and three other egg producers were ordered to pay $17.7 million in damage by a federal jury.
They had to pay it to Kraft Foods, the Kellogg Company, General Mills, and Nestle's.
So Trump's plan is to boost egg imports.
And he says the U.S. Department of Agriculture will import between 70 and 100 million eggs over the next two months in an effort to cap egg prices.
Well, let's look and see if that's going to make any difference.
Let's just look at the number of eggs that have been lost by the 19 million chickens that he killed.
One very questionable policy under the previous administration was a mass culling of egg-laying hens without any countermeasures to offset the plunging output.
Now Trump is going to clean up this mess.
What a joke.
This is zero-hedge.
This is North Korea-level propaganda.
Well, that all happened under Biden, and now Trump is going to clean up this mess, and he's going to do it by importing eggs.
Well, he's going to implement new domestic policies to contain the biosecurity threats.
Since when have we ever talked about biosecurity threats?
Not even the Biden administration used that kind of nonsense language.
And it's just a joke.
Just the chickens that he killed in the first month are going to be many times more than what he's going to import.
According to the USDA's bird flu dashboard, 19 million birds across the lower 48 have been infected with avian influence over the last 30 days.
No, what they mean is they were needlessly killed.
Finally, real quickly here, beef prices near record highs.
So what's going on?
Beef prices have been high for years, but now they're soaring ever higher with average price for two popular cuts, setting near record highs.
Two popular cuts would be sirloin steak prices, ground beef.
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has tracked prices for sirloin steak and ground beef since the 1980s, and they're hitting record prices now.
Look at the Daily Skeptic talking about what is happening in the U.K. Breitbart's got it as well.
They have a Climate Change Committee, the CCC, instead of the CCP. Same stuff.
They're saying eat less meat to meet the green goals, says the UK Climate Change Committee, the CCC. Despite the UK accounting for less than 1% of global emissions, official advice to the government?
From the Climate Change Committee, they argue that British citizens will need to eat at least 260 grams less meat per week in order to meet planned emission reductions.
And again, less than 1%.
So who is it under the Paris Climate Accord that is given a free pass to do anything they want?
The biggest polluters of polluters, the CO2 emissions, right?
But it actually is pollution the way they run their...
They're coal power plants and they're oil power plants.
They don't clean up anything.
But they're given a free pass.
And yet, and they're the biggest emitters and getting bigger all the time.
And yet, they ride the British people and all the European countries and come after them relentlessly, even when they're less than 1% of the emissions, and even though these emissions aren't anything that even matter.
The independent, non-departmental public body said in its seventh carbon budget this week that the reduction in meat that would have to happen would be equivalent to having two large Donner kebabs less or two six-ounce steaks less each month.
We're absolutely not saying that everyone needs to be vegan, but we do expect to see a shift in dietary habits.
Who are they to say anything about this?
The woman who is head of the Net Zero at Climate Change Committee.
Her name is Emily Nurse.
Can't make this up.
They should call her Nurse Ratchet.
Look, they are saying that everybody should not have any meat.
Because if you look at the C40 agenda, and it says no meat, no dairy.
The panel also suggested that frequent flyer tax could be imposed.
That's another part of C40. That's the big tell.
You look at...
Their agenda.
You know, you're not going to have but one flight every three years, and that'll be less than a thousand miles.
You will have no meat, no dairy.
And then they come back, well, we're not going to remove everything from you.
Oh, yes, they are.
Additionally, the CCC said that the government should adopt nudging policies, propaganda.
A politically correct term used by Britain to denote subtle but effective behavioral control techniques.
And, of course, that's what they ran on us in both the Trump administration and the Biden administration.
The propaganda doing it iteratively.
They said people should be urged or compelled to drive less.
That's another part of it.
No private cars.
Or to use more public transportation.
Because, you know, if you use public transportation, there's no carbon problems at all with that.
Just like China, their emissions don't matter.
They also call for a countrywide effort to switch to heat pumps over gas heating and issues like that.
Richard Tice responded and said, forget it.
Climate Change Committee hermits say eat less meat, ditch the car, install heat pumps, forget holidays abroad, the road to net stupid zero.
They can clear off.
I'll eat more meat, drive more miles, use more heating gas, and I will fly more, he says.
Well, the CCC40 says Whistler isn't going to say you can't have meat.
Not yet, they won't.
Not yet.
But you wait.
That's coming.
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