The egg shortage has enabled record quarterly profits and sales at Cal-Maine Foods (CALM), the largest producer and distributor of eggs in the United States. The company produces brands such as Farmhouse Eggs, Sunups, Sunny Meadow, Egg-Land’s Best and Land O’ Lakes eggs.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/13/business/egg-prices-cal-maine-foods/index.html

The problem, once again, is monopolies. Not enough competition means one company can jack up prices.

It’s not clear if Harris will continue Biden’s policies, but one of the best things Biden’s admin has done is to actually go after monopolies for the first time in decades. Under a Trump / Vance presidency, I don’t think that’s very likely.

As a reporter, I’d ask him why, as a current sitting Senator, Vance himself hasn’t done anything to help lower the price of eggs even while his colleagues in the Senate and the House are.

Kroger exec admits to artificially increasing the price of eggs: link

27 Representitives and Senators calling for a block of the merger between Kroger and Albertsons: link

…Vance was not among those calling for a block of the merger of the price fixing grocery store…

“eggs, butter, some bread… whatever makes sense”