There's an old
expression that “to make an omelet you have to break a few eggs.”
That may be harder to do than you think right now, with an outbreak
of avian flu in the U.S. that is reaching devastating proportions. I
was reading an article in the Washington Post that indicated the
severity of the situation-- as it has really taken its toll on prices
for eggs everywhere throughout the nation.
I normally don't
blog a lot on news articles but I was thinking about what a big deal
this really is: you may think that you don't eat a lot of eggs or
none at all (perhaps that is true), but most of us consume far more
of them than we think. Eggs are a common, necessary ingredient in
many of the foods we eat-- particularly in baked goods.
By the way, this flu
doesn't just attack chickens (although they are 80% of the victims),
it also goes after turkeys and other birds. I wonder what
Thanksgiving will be like with a “tofu turkey?” Maybe we will
wind up with the fish that Deborah served on the classic comedy show
“Everybody Loves Raymond?” As I recall, Frank liked it.
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