Your Eggs Are a $1.22 Billion Scam — and the Industry Wants You to Blame Inflation
Egg companies made $1.22 billion in extra profit by constraining supply and turning a staple commodity into a high-margin product. This isn’t inflation or bird flu — it’s coordinated market power that lets a handful of players profit from scarcity they engineered. Consumers are paying the price for a rigged system, not a natural crisis.