U.S.A. Massive Fire at Chicken Farm in Illinois

[Fool's Requiem]

I saw it driving home.



1.2 million chickens. Supposedly, they were in an egg producing farm. I expect egg prices to increase, at least locally.

The cloud was so big, it came up on doppler radar.

Chicken housing units at Wabash Valley Produce in Farina destroyed in large Wednesday night fire

Several buildings that make up a large five-building complex that houses the chickens for Wabash Valley Produc...

southernillinoisnow.com

 

[Kat]

Yikes, poor chickens.

There's something like 400 million laying chickens in the USA, so it probably won't affect prices.

In other news, the USA has more laying chickens than it does people. How many fucking eggs do we eat?

 

[dimmerwit]

About 15.8kg per year. Which is quite a lot, although the Chinese and Mexicans have you handily beaten.

Funnily enough Thailand is probably the origin of the domesticated chicken so any egg you eat can be claimed as local authentic cuisine.

 

[Fool's Requiem]

the USA has more laying chickens than it does people. How many fucking eggs do we eat?

A lot. Here are 200+ recipes that use eggs:

200+ Egg Recipes to Make That Use Up a Lot of Eggs - Backyard Chicken Project

Got extra eggs on hand? Here are over 200 recipes that use a LOT of eggs! Every egg heavy recipe in this ultimate list has 4+ eggs! So let's get cracking!

backyardchickenproject.com

Eggs became a breakfast staple because farmers had a surplus and they hit up a "public relations" expert named Edward Berneys (who was a former propagandist for the WWI US war machine and a relative of Sigmund Freud) to find a way to sell bacon and eggs as a breakfast item.