Egg prices have significantly declined since President Donald Trump took office in January and implemented a five-point plan targeting the key causes of the spike.
Prices for eggs <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/03/28/easter-egg-prices-go-down" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dropped 63%</a> since last month, with the average wholesale price of a dozen large eggs hovering around $3, an Axios <a href="https://www.axios.com/2025/03/28/easter-egg-prices-go-down" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> said Friday. On February 21, the average price was $8.15.
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In a White House press release sent to The Daily Wire, the administration credited the decline to their recent efforts to combat the avian flu and repopulate the chicken supply. United States Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins laid out their five-point plan on Fox News this past week.
&#8220;Under Joe Biden, egg prices increased 237% &#8212; we never heard anyone in the mainstream media talk about it,&#8221; Rollins opened. &#8220;But the day that Trump gets elected, January 20 &#8212; all of a sudden it&#8217;s his fault that egg prices have increased 237%.&#8221;
The secretary said Trump tasked her to come up with a plan to lower egg prices. &#8220;About a week after I was sworn in, we launched a very significant five-point-plan,&#8221; Rollins outlined. &#8220;It included deregulation to bring costs down for our chicken farmers, it included more quickly repopulating those populations affected by the avian bird flu, it included biosecurity measures, it included importing eggs from other countries for the short-term to get those prices down &#8230; and then the fifth point was significant longterm research on therapeutics, vaccines, culling methods, etc.&#8221;
The secretary added that the market almost immediately reacted when they implemented the plan a month ago. &#8220;The market will react to big, bold plans and being fearless and trying to fix things in a major way, and that&#8217;s what we&#8217;re working to do,&#8221; Rollins said.
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/national-economic-council-dir-dunks-on-reporter-over-egg-prices-go-to-the-grocery-store" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Economic Council Dir Dunks On Reporter Over Egg Prices: ‘Go To The Grocery Store’</a>

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Joe Biden has left the building, but Bidenflation has not completely abated. A lot of us are still feeling the inflationary pain at the grocery store. Eggs, for example, went up a whopping 37%. To be fair, this was mostly due to negative supply shocks driving up the actual cost of producing eggs.
That sticker shock was recently compounded by a new “cage-free” law that <a href="https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/12/18/michigan-cage-free-eggs-new-law-impact-prices/76966711007/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">officially went into effect</a> here in Michigan on January 1, 2025. Farms with more than 3,000 egg layers can no longer confine their chickens in cages, but must give them room to “<a href="https://www.michigan.gov/mdard/food-dairy/foodlaw/cage-free-egg-law" target="_blank" rel="noopener">roam unrestricted in indoor environments</a>.” 
The large egg producers that supply grocery stores have had to take a giant step backwards and rebuild their egg operations at a significantly higher cost structure. On top of that, according to the USDA, bird flu recently killed off over <a href="https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2025/01/14/u-s-egg-industry-sees-record-chicken-deaths-from-bird-flu-outbreak/#:~:text=More%20than%2020%20million%20egg,supply%20since%20the%20outbreak%20began." target="_blank" rel="noopener">20 million hens</a>. The combination of bird flu and cage-free mandates have pushed egg prices to all-time highs.
I’m not here to complain about egg prices, though. Bird flu outbreaks are terrible bad luck, but chicken flocks will recover. Farmers will adapt to the cage-free mandates and the price of eggs will subside.
The egg crisis, however, did reveal a grotesque contradiction in our public policy: In Michigan, chickens now have more legal protections than some humans. I’m talking about unborn babies, who can be killed through all nine months of pregnancy in this state, and in a quite inhumane manner, might I add. This is thanks to some of the most radically pro-abortion policies in the country, enacted in recent years under Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s leadership. Michigan voters ensconced a right to “reproductive freedom” into our state constitution in the 2022 election, which led to the repeal of nearly all abortion restrictions by the state legislature during 2023. According to the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute, Michigan now ranks as <a href="https://states.guttmacher.org/policies/michigan/abortion-policies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“very protective” of so-called abortion rights.</a>
Ironically, just after signing the bills that repealed abortion restrictions, Governor Whitmer established the <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/whitmer/news/press-releases/2023/06/01/whitmer-establishes-the-growing-michigan-together-council-to-focus-on-population-growth" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“Growing Michigan Together Council”</a> to “develop a statewide strategy aimed at making Michigan a place everyone wants to call home by attracting and retaining talent, improving education throughout the state, upgrading and modernizing our transportation and water infrastructure to meet 21st century needs, and continuing Michigan’s economic momentum.” Michigan, you see, ranks 49th in population growth, and even leftists realize that’s not good for the economy. So the state formed a commission to come up with comprehensive solutions to get Michigan growing again.
I’ve got one: Let’s stop killing babies.
Whitmer and her ilk are right that our near-zero rate of population growth is a major problem with massive social, economic, and political consequences. Conservatives have been tracking <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/27/what-will-be-the-consequences-of-our-plummeting-birth-rate/">declining trends in fertility</a> and <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2019/03/13/dear-david-frum-u-s-population-growth-not-problem-solution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">population growth</a> for years, sounding the alarm about the potential for demographic collapse. Awareness of population decline and its frightening ramifications is finally going mainstream, perhaps thanks to Elon Musk proclaiming that population decline is a much bigger existential problem than climate change. He’s right, of course, and serious people are catching on. Outlets such as the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/u-s-deaths-expected-to-outpace-births-within-the-decade-9c949de8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wall Street Journal</a>, <a href="https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/06/01/global-fertility-has-collapsed-with-profound-economic-consequences?utm_content=section_content&amp;gad_source=1&amp;gclid=CjwKCAiAnKi8BhB0EiwA58DA4ct5fzkrQ9sKipRa-wCbLWsfKj-iv6AMak4OoGEIlDl9qyJmXdQC8RoC8DkQAvD_BwE&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Economist</a>, and <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/19/politics/china-population-us-what-matters/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">even CNN</a> are getting wise to the bitter implications of declining birth rates and population collapse.
When people have fewer babies, <a href="https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/09/picture-this-demographic-decline-andrew-stanley#:~:text=Lower%20birth%20rates%20result%20in,putting%20pressure%20on%20public%20finances." target="_blank" rel="noopener">everyone is worse off</a>. Economically, we get a smaller workforce that produces less output, generates less innovation, and results in lower incomes and fewer opportunities. Politically, we get a shrinking tax base that makes it harder for the government to fund and provide public goods like infrastructure, police, and defense. The population pyramid becomes inverted—more old people than young people. Each working-age person is now financially responsible for a larger number of retirees’ government-funded pensions and healthcare, putting even bigger strains on the welfare state. At a personal level, <a href="https://cosm.aei.org/who-is-happiest-married-mothers-and-fathers-per-the-latest-general-social-survey/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">childless (and typically unmarried) people find themselves increasingly alone and unhappy.</a> The disease has advanced so far that we now have a generation of <a href="https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/relationships/americans-are-having-fewer-babiesso-fewer-people-get-to-be-grandparents-a99b6001?mod=Searchresults_pos17&amp;page=1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">older folks lamenting that they’ll never see grandchildren</a>.
Several countries are entering a “demographic winter,” with more deaths than births and rapidly falling headcounts. Japan, <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/japan-news-population-crisis-3-numbers-1954889" target="_blank" rel="noopener">whose population has been in freefall since 2009</a>, offers a sad and tragic cautionary tale on population decline. <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/04/30/japans-rent-a-family-industry" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Old people rent stand-in grandkids</a>. In lieu of big supportive families, <a href="https://japantoday.com/category/tech/the-rise-of-companion-robots-in-japan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lonely elders rely on emotional support robots.</a> Young people, men, in particular, are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex" target="_blank" rel="noopener">losing interest in sex</a>. The trend ends in civilizational annihilation.
So how do we prevent Michigan, and the United States, from going down the demographic drain? Birth rates in America have been below the replacement rate of 2.1 children per woman since around 2008. We’ve been able to make up for declining births with massive immigration, which has kept population growth positive. You may have noticed, though, that large-scale immigration—most of it of the illegal variety — is falling out of favor. With a new administration actually enforcing immigration laws, it’s unlikely that foreigners will continue to make up for our birth dearth.
Policy wonks have all sorts of ideas for incentivizing people to have more kids. Many GOP legislators favor boosting child tax credits. Leftists who acknowledge the problem usually want more government-funded daycare or more generous parental leave. The nonpartisan Growing Michigan Together Council thinks the answer is a better statewide education system and more accessible public transit.
Any of these things might have some benefit at the margin, but interestingly (and sadly) I noticed in the Growing Michigan report exactly zero references to the direct solution: more babies. And there’s a really straightforward policy solution to a huge aspect of that problem, which is to just stop killing them. According to state data, from 1982 to 2023, <a href="https://www.mdch.state.mi.us/osr/abortion/Tab_A.asp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michigan lost 1.3 million children to abortion</a>. This is surely an undercount since it does not track babies terminated at home via the abortion pill. For the country as a whole, <a href="https://www.nrlc.org/uploads/factsheets/FS01AbortionintheUS.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">we’ve lost 63.5 million people to the abortion holocaust</a> since legalization in 1973. 
Numerically speaking, abortion is the primary problem when it comes to demographic decline, and it is entirely symptomatic of the root cause of all our problems: We are sacrificing the next generation on the altar of personal freedom, convenience, and hedonism. Too many people view marriage as a spirit-crushing trap and babies — even live ones kicking the womb — as a call option: If you’re not “in the money” with financial success or self-confidence, you can simply let it expire, and toss out that tiny helpless human like last week’s leftovers.
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No policy tweaks or monetary incentives will change people’s deeply held values about babies, families, marriage, and the meaning of life. Well-meaning members of the Growing Michigan Together Council are completely deaf, dumb, and mute regarding the actual problem here: we are killing babies, and we need to stop. The real problem is spiritual. It’s good vs. evil. It’s in our hearts. Now that killing babies is grotesquely enshrined as a “right” in many states, it’s going to take a huge shift in cultural values to turn the tide. Recommendations for “improving education” here or “increasing incentives” there just aren’t going to cut it — they are putting band-aids on a tumor.
America needs people. It’s good, right, and proper (and fun) for young men and women to get together, form families, and have kids. We need to return to a basic set of shared cultural values that recognizes and promotes the old normal: get married, have kids, and enjoy the good old family life. Ending abortion would be a huge step towards that shift in values, but it will most likely come as a result, not a cause. While we should keep fighting hard for the unborn and keep seeking legislative wins to protect tiny vulnerable humans, we should also realize that winning hearts and minds will take decades of commitment, personal leadership, and sacrifice. Animal rights activists fought long and hard to enact cage-free laws for the “humane” treatment of chickens — surely we who cherish human life can work even harder to build a culture that protects and values the lives of children, whatever their stage of development.
In the meantime, let us lead by example whenever possible. Get married, stay married, and have kids. Go to church, and pray: for your family, your kids, your friends’ kids, etc. Help the people around you as much as you can, especially with unplanned pregnancies and relationship strife. In the end, a large family and a long marriage are worth far more than any level of career or financial success. With God’s help, we can rebuild a culture of life and family that puts mothers, fathers, and babies at the center of everything. It’s the right thing to do, and it will even be good for the economy.
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Tyler Watts is a professor of economics at Ferris State University in Big Rapids, Michigan.
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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A wildlife conservation for big cats in Washington has lost more than half of the animals at its sanctuary after they contracted <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/bird-flu" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bird flu</a>.
The Wild Felid Advocacy Center announced late last week that 20 big cats were killed around Thanksgiving shortly after they started showing signs of being sick.
Cats are particularly vulnerable to contracting bird flu and can die as quickly as 24 hours after becoming infected, the center said.
The following animals died from the outbreak: 1 Amur/Bengal Tiger, 4 Cougars, 1 African Caracal, 2 Canada Lynx, 1 Geoffroy Cat, 1 Bengal Cat, 1 Eurasian Lynx, 4 Bobcats, and 5 African Servals.
The center said that the virus is carried by wild birds and spreads through respiratory secretions, bird-to-bird contact, and carnivorous mammals that ingest birds.
The center announced that it was closed indefinitely while it quarantined the other animals and worked to clean the five acres of land that it is located on. It said that it was in contact with state and federal officials over the incident.
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&#8220;This tragedy has deeply affected our team, and we are all grieving the loss of these incredible animals,&#8221; the center said in a statement. &#8220;Now, we turn to the community for support as we focus on the care and recovery of our surviving felids. The mounting medical costs, even at discounted rates, have placed a significant financial strain on our sanctuary.&#8221;
Wild Felid Advocacy Center Director and Co-Founder Mark Mathews told KOMO News that he never thought an incident like this could impact his sanctuary because the cats are spread out and are not kept close to each other.
&#8220;Tabbi, she was my favorite tiger,&#8221; Mathews said. &#8220;Before Thanksgiving, we had 37 cats. Today, we have 17 cats, [including] four recovering.&#8221;
The center said that usually if the animals were sick, a veterinarian would visit, treat the animal, and the animal would rapidly recover.
However, with the bird flu, the animals &#8220;made it pretty obvious&#8221; that the visit from the vet did not make a difference.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/americas-first-severe-case-of-bird-flu-confirmed-california-declares-emergency">America’s First Severe Case Of Bird Flu Confirmed; California Declares Emergency</a>

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The first serious case of H5N1 bird flu has been detected in a patient in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/louisiana" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Louisiana</a> who has since been hospitalized with the illness.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that this was the &#8220;first instance of severe illness&#8221; from H5N1 recorded in the U.S. after it was confirmed on Friday.
The agency said that a total of 61 cases have been reported in the U.S. over the last eight months.
&#8220;It has been determined that the patient had exposure to sick and dead birds in backyard flocks,&#8221; the CDC said. &#8220;This is the first case of H5N1 bird flu in the U.S. that has been linked to exposure to a backyard flock. A sporadic case of severe H5N1 bird flu illness in a person is not unexpected; avian influenza A(H5N1) virus infection has previously been associated with severe human illness in other countries during 2024 and prior years, including illness resulting in death.&#8221;
The agency that there has been &#8220;no person-to-person spread&#8221; of H5N1 detected anywhere and its overall risk assessment for the public remains low.
The statement added:
<blockquote>This case underscores that, in addition to affected commercial poultry and dairy operations, wild birds and backyard flocks also can be a source of exposure. People with work or recreational exposures to infected animals are at higher risk of infection and should follow CDC&#8217;s recommended precautions when around animals that are infected or potentially infected with H5N1 avian influenza virus. This means that backyard flock owners, hunters and other bird enthusiasts should also take precautions.</blockquote>
The CDC noted that the viral genome that infected the patient belongs to the D1.1 genotype that has been found in wild birds and poultry.
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D1.1 is different than the B3.13 genotype, which has been found in dairy cows, and has been responsible for some sporadic human cases.
California Governor Gavin Newsom <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/health/bird-flu-emergency-california.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">declared</a> a state of emergency on Wednesday over the continued spread of the bird flu in dairy cattle.
The state agriculture department has found the virus in nearly 650 dairies since August, when it was first discovered, with half of the infections happening in the last 30 days.
“This proclamation is a targeted action to ensure government agencies have the resources and flexibility they need to respond quickly to this outbreak,” Newsom said in a statement. “While the risk to the public remains low, we will continue to take all necessary steps to prevent the spread of this virus.”

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The Biden Administration, concerned about the impact of a bird flu virus (H5N1) that started in late 2020 but infected a Texas dairy worker in April and a Michigan dairy worker in May, is reportedly &#8220;looking closely&#8221; at vaccinating farm workers and others.
On May 10, the Food and Drug Administration <a href="https://www.fda.gov/food/alerts-advisories-safety-information/updates-highly-pathogenic-avian-influenza-hpai" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, “Last week we announced preliminary results of a study of 297 retail dairy samples, which were all found to be negative for viable virus. The FDA is today announcing that all final egg inoculation tests associated with this retail sampling study have been completed and were also found to be negative for viable HPAI H5N1 virus.”
Yet <a href="https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-european-nations-consider-vaccinating-workers-exposed-bird-flu-2024-05-27/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Reuters</a> reported that U.S. officials acknowledged they were transporting bulk vaccine from CSL Seqirus matching H5N1 that could create 4.8 million doses of vaccine. European health officials also said they were discussing acquiring CSL&#8217;s prepandemic vaccine.
“Human exposures to the virus in poultry and dairy operations could increase the risk that the virus will mutate and gain the ability to spread easily in people,” Reuters stated, adding, “The U.S. is in talks with mRNA vaccine makers Pfizer and about potential pandemic vaccines.”
The Biden administration is “looking closely” at vaccinating farm workers and others exposed to the virus, according to Dawn O&#8217;Connell of the U.S. Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response
“All of our efforts need to be focused on preventing those events from happening,” said Matthew Miller, co-director of the Canadian Pandemic Preparedness Hub at McMaster University. “Once we have widespread infections of humans, we&#8217;re in big trouble.”
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After the second dairy worker was infected in Michigan, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Principal Deputy Director Nirav Shah <a href="https://time.com/6981144/can-i-get-bird-flu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> last week, “We have not seen evidence of other cases in this area or elsewhere in any of our monitoring systems, let alone any evidence of human-to-human transmission. This is reassuring.”
“Risk is incredibly low right now,” Andrew Pekosz of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health added. “There is no real evidence of spread from human to human.”

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