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https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5275227-egg-price-inflation-cal-maine/
Egg prices reached another record high last
month. It now costs American shoppers an
average of $6.23 for a dozen eggs — nearly
a five-fold increase since 2020.
Yet while families have been squeezed by
grocery sticker shock, agriculture
corporations have been raking in record
profits. Cal-Maine, the country’s largest
egg producer, took in $509 million this
quarter alone, tripling its profits from
a year ago.
Gouging consumers is bad enough. But it
gets worse: Cal-Maine and other ag
companies were breaking the bank at the
same time they were also quietly getting
millions in taxpayer-funded relief
payments from the federal government.
Congress and the Trump administration
must put a stop to this: No company that
is getting corporate subsidies should be
allowed to hike prices and extract
windfall profits from American consumers.
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