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According to Farm Action’s research, there is evidence that the avian flu’s impact on egg production hasn’t been quite as pervasive as consumers might think.

You are probably familiar with the story going around about the egg shortage: The United States is in the midst of an outbreak of the highly contagious avian flu.

Maybe, she said, the avian flu is an easy scapegoat for what’s really happening.

“Put another way, Cal-Maine has made more in a single quarter than they made in an entire year prior to the 2022 avian flu outbreak,” the group said.

“Egg producers and grocery stores may leverage the current avian flu outbreak as an opportunity to further constrain supply or hike up egg prices to increase profits,” a group of Democratic lawmakers, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, wrote in an open letter in January, according to the New York Times.