BY FROMA HARROP An outbreak of bird flu has forced American farmers to kill millions of egg-laying chickens, 32 million in Iowa alone – hence the rise in egg prices. But why so many? Because our eggs are now produced by a handful of gigantic farms. When one of their birds gets sick, the farmers have to kill them all. This concentration of egg production wasn’t always the case. In the 1970s, there were about […]
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