Munda’s Wandering Political Thoughts

PINO Trusk’s Regime suggested that with egg prices increasing, people should just get their own chickens.

Trump Admin Says Americans Should Farm Chickens to Combat Egg Prices

Let’s address this as if we’re seriously thinking about it.

One, getting a chicken. My understanding of the current dynamics is that the price of eggs is high and going higher because of avian flu. Birds have died from this, and birds have been killed to prevent the disease from spreading.

The Trusk Regime may not be aware of this, but chickens are birds. As such, they’ve been killed by millions. That means there are fewer of them. If I understand elementary supply and demand, having fewer birds available makes the price increase, especially if demand increases. This is the essence of inflation. Buying an egg-laying chicken might not be as cheap and easy as the Trusk Regime lays out.

Two, raising a chicken. As any backyard gardner will tell you, raising your own food isn’t cheap. With chickens, you’d need to provide feed, have a place for them, protect them, and keep them warm and safe. These supplies and materials all add up…quickly.

Three, back to the beginning and why the price of eggs has been rising and is expected to go higher: avian flu. It’s killing birds. And birds are being killed to prevent the spread. So, if you have a chicken, it may succumb to avian flu.

Thus, buying your own chicken to raise your own eggs might not be the genius idea some people perceive it to be.

At least, in my opinion.

Today’s Theme Music

A string of dreams, like winter storms, have been affecting me. They’ve featured my late father-in-law and my Dad. I had an excellent relationship with the former, so-so with the latter. The dreams aren’t dark so much as they’re long, involved, thick and impenetrable. I need something to distract me, something a little lighter, for today’s music.

The radio delivered the answer in the car yesterday. I’ve seen late, great (words we’ll need to use more and more often for others, after 2016) B.B. King once in concert. I don’t recall if he sang this song then but I have a vivid memory of him singing him. I assume I must have seen him singing it during a television broadcast.

Here is B.B. King with ‘Ain’t Nobody Here But Us Chickens’.

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