US authorities have turned to Europe for help with the country’s severe egg shortage. The shortfall is due to bird flu, which has plagued the United States for several years.
The Finnish Poultry Association says it has been contacted about exporting eggs to the US. The organisation’s executive director, Veera Lehtilä, told Yle on Saturday that exporting eggs does not seem to be possible at the moment because no market access negotiations have been held with US authorities. This can be a drawn-out process involving extensive inspections and studies.
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That’s terrible… I’m so sorry. Hopefully people can find a workaround or something… I don’t know…
A lot of people say stuff along the lines of “you can have chickens here as long as you get along with your neighbors”, implying that they won’t call the police/city over it, but unfortunately I live next to an old cranky shithead that thinks Trump is a god. He’s threatened to call the city on us for having slightly long grass, he’ll definitely do it over chickens.
If I had the money I would look into opening something small nearby that isn’t under residential zoning and start raising some, but it’s WAY beyond my means.