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Finland has declined a U.S. request to export eggs amid a severe American shortage caused by bird flu.

The Finnish Poultry Association cited the lack of prior trade agreements and complex regulatory hurdles. Even if exports were possible, Finland’s limited egg production would not significantly impact the U.S. crisis.

Other European nations, including Sweden and Denmark, also face difficulties meeting U.S. demand, while Europe grapples with its own egg shortages.

The U.S. has turned to countries like Turkey and the Netherlands for supplies as bird flu remains a global issue.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 325 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Nobody should send us eggs. Nobody should give us anything, given the government we have now

Orangeboi wants transactional, so give him transactional. Hold the US state department over the barrel as long as you can. Hold our feet to the fire. Make the negotiations as torturous and hostile as possible. Squeeze us until you see blood. Get absolutely everything you can out of any “deal” you make with us - it’s the “art of the deal”, after all.

There are huge swaths of Americans and political leadership that now really need to find out, because they’ve been fucking around and ruining things for far too long.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The US is going to be begging for more than just eggs in a few months. California is one of their biggest agricultural states and they have no water; Trump had them empty their reservoirs in an idiotic attempt to fight the wildfires earlier this year. Plus, the whole country is dependent on Canadian potash to fertilize their crops.

[–] SwingingTheLamp@midwest.social 3 points 18 hours ago

Is there anybody who's done the analysis on his bad it will be? California's online tracker shows right now that nearly every major reservoir in the state is above the historical average level for March 15th. The system as a whole is at over 78% of capacity. The news stories that I found put the releases at of 2.2 billion gallons, which is not much. (The lake near me contains about 133 billion gallons.) They were from Lake Kaweah and Lake Success, both reservoirs which primarily serve flood-control functions.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 6 points 22 hours ago

Dumping all that water from the reservoirs did nothing but sabotaging California's ability to make it through the dry season. Not a drop of it went to fire-fighting. Trump is a wrecker and a liar.

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 56 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 83 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 91 points 1 day ago (3 children)

You give us 50% of your natural resources and we'll give you eggs (no guarantees on getting the eggs though).

[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 31 points 1 day ago

Our surveyors and geologist told us it will take 5 years to get any real production going so we'll send the eggs in 5 years.

[–] dutchkimble@lemy.lol 2 points 18 hours ago

And make sure you say thank you

[–] Astra@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago

Other countries should trade for our national parks - like a month's worth of eggs for Yellowstone - and then they can protect them from trump selling parks off to oligarchs and corporations. It would be a win/win situation: Americans (and the entire world) retain access to the parks, and foreign nations can collect the money those parks bring.

Unfortunately, things are that far gone Trump/USians in general will probably see an even slightly fair deal as them getting done over. Much the same as Brits and Brexit.