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Walmart Cuts Thanksgiving Meal Cost to $4 a Person

Retailer aims to ease inflation pinch with budget meal bundle

(Newser) - Walmart is offering its 2025 Thanksgiving meal basket for under $4 per person, marking the lowest price since the program began in 2022. The bundle, designed to feed 10 people and including more than 20 items—such as turkey, potatoes, stuffing mix, boxed mac and cheese, fried onions, and pie...

Scientists Now Testing Bird Flu Vaccine for Seals

Researchers move quickly in hope of shielding endangered monk seals

(Newser) - Hawaii's endangered monk seals could receive new protection from the bird flu if all goes well with a vaccine trial. Veterinarians in California have started a small-scale trial to test a bird flu vaccine on marine mammals, focusing first on six northern elephant seals at the Marine Mammal...

Well, Bird Flu Has Hit Waffle House
Well, Waffle House's
Egg Surcharge Didn't Last Long
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT
Jul 5, 2025 10:30 AM CDT

Well, Waffle House's Egg Surcharge Didn't Last Long

Egg prices have come down, so the surcharge goes the way of the dodo

(Newser) - For those with a penchant for moaning about the price of eggs, you'll have to retrain your ire away from Waffle House. The calamity-spotting fast-food chain, which rolled out a $.50 surcharge on any egg-based menu item in February, has now rolled it right back barely five months...

Feds Pull Plug on Moderna's Bird Flu Vaccine

HHS says it's for safety reasons, but experts warn move could hinder US pandemic flu preparedness

(Newser) - The federal government is canceling a $766 million contract with Moderna to develop an mRNA-based vaccine for pandemic flu, including the H5N1 bird flu. The Department of Health and Human Services cited concerns about the safety of mRNA technology as the main reason for the decision, saying the technology...

Human Bird Flu Cases Are Suddenly Tougher to Find

Experts debate causes behind the drop in reported infections

(Newser) - Over a 14-month period, 70 people in the US were confirmed to have bird flu. But since early February, the number of new diagnoses stands at zero—leaving experts to question why reports of new human cases have essentially stopped. The AP chalks a lot of it up to...

Egg Prices Soar to $6.23 Despite Wholesale Drop
Retail Egg Prices
Hit Record High
Apr 10, 2025 12:33 PM CDT

Retail Egg Prices Hit Record High

Consumers have yet to see savings from steep drop in wholesale prices

(Newser) - Despite assurances from President Trump and other top officials, retail egg prices have hit a record high of $6.23 per dozen, up from $5.90 in March, according to the latest Consumer Price Index. The increase comes despite a drop in wholesale prices and no new bird flu...

The Cranes Are Back, and They Largely Dodged Bird Flu

Birds seem relatively unscathed as they stop in Nebraska on their way north

(Newser) - It's crane season in Nebraska, the time of year when hundreds of thousands of sandhill cranes descend on the Platte River as part of their annual migration north. And as Smithsonian Magazine reports, this year's flock appears to be robust—and to have largely dodged bird flu , which...

World First on Bird Flu: A Sheep Tests Positive

Farm animal is euthanized in the UK

(Newser) - We can add one more animal to the list of those known to have contracted bird flu: sheep. Health officials in Britain say the virus turned up in a single sheep on a farm in an undisclosed location, reports the BBC . Avian flu, aka H5N1, had previously been reported in...

He Survived Cancer, Bought a Farm. Then Bird Flu Hit
The Farm Was Their Dream.
It Now Holds Bird Graves
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Mar 21, 2025 11:50 AM CDT

The Farm Was Their Dream. It Now Holds Bird Graves

Inside one small-scale farmer's experience with bird flu

(Newser) - After software entrepreneur Marty Thomas survived Stage 4 non-Hodgkin lymphoma, he and wife MariKate started raising chickens for eggs—part of a move away from chemical- and pesticide-laden food. By 2023, that hobby had grown into a business that demanded more space, and they purchased a 74-acre property about 45...

Amid More Cat Deaths, Another Pet Food Recall

California's Savage Pet is latest company to pull raw meat products as bird flu keeps circulating

(Newser) - A California pet food maker has recalled raw chicken products after they were linked to bird flu infections in two cats and suspected in a third in New York City. Savage Pet of El Cajon, California, this week recalled one lot of large and small chicken boxes because they may...

Chickens, Prepare for Your Flu Shots

Zoetis receives conditional license from USDA for vaccines designed to combat avian influenza

(Newser) - As bird flu continues to wreak havoc across the US, killing millions of birds on poultry farms, sending eggs prices soaring , and even popping up in cows and humans , some good news for chickens: A vaccine against the infectious disease is on the horizon just for them. In a Friday...

New Strain of Bird Flu Detected in a Human

Nevada dairy worker has since recovered

(Newser) - A dairy worker in Nevada was infected with a new type of bird flu that's different from the version that has been spreading in US herds since last year, federal health officials said Monday. The illness was considered mild, the AP reports. The person's main symptom was eye...

Trader Joe's Limits Egg Purchases
Trader Joe's Limits
Egg Purchases
Feb 10, 2025 2:15 PM CST

Trader Joe's Limits Egg Purchases

Customers restricted to a carton a day amid surge in price because of avian flu

(Newser) - The latest entry in the eggs-are-expensive front : Trader Joe's is limiting customers to buying one dozen per day. "Due to ongoing issues with the supply of eggs, we are currently limiting egg purchases to one dozen per customer, per day," a chain spokesperson tells KTLA . The limit...

Fire at Commercial Farm Kills 200K Chickens

Blaze in Ohio is a further blow to the state's egg industry in a tough year

(Newser) - Ohio is one of the biggest egg-farming states in the nation, and a blaze at a commercial farm has made a bleak year even worse, reports the New York Times . The fire at New Madison Pullets in Darke County this week killed an estimated 200,000 chickens, per WHIOTV . "...

NYC Shuts Down All Live Poultry Markets

Move comes after avian flu was detected

(Newser) - All live poultry markets in New York City and some of its suburbs were ordered Friday to close for a week after the detection of seven cases of avian flu, per the AP . The virus has also hit farms nationwide, led to the slaughter of millions of birds, and driven...

Why Wing Prices Haven't Matched Egg Price Rises

Broiler chickens have much less time to get infected with avian flu

(Newser) - With Super Bowl Sunday approaching, NPR looks at a different kind of chicken versus egg question: Why has the price of chicken wings remained stable while egg prices have soared? The answer, it turns out, is simple. The broiler chickens used for meat production have much shorter lives than egg-laying...

Cracker Barrel Taunts Waffle House Over Egg Surcharge

'There's nothing hospitable about that'

(Newser) - Cracker Barrel is coming out of its shell, looking to poach Waffle House's egg lovers after the latter's move to introduce a 50-cent egg surcharge . "A surcharge on eggs? Well, there's nothing hospitable about that," Cracker Barrel said Wednesday, adding "country hospitality is as...

With Costs Soaring, the Egg Thieves Cometh

Someone stole 100K eggs worth $40K from trailer at Pete & Gerry's Organics in Greencastle

(Newser) - Eggs are a hot commodity these days, with prices soaring amid a bird flu outbreak that continues to ravage the nation's poultry. Someone just scored a whole lot of organic eggs in Pennsylvania's Franklin County, however—100,000 or so, swiped out of a distribution trailer in Greencastle....

A New Form of Bird Flu Is Spreading to Cows

Nevada herds infected with D1.1 genotype, the same one tied to a US death

(Newser) - Since it was introduced to cattle in late 2023, a version of the H5N1 bird flu virus known as B3.13 has infected more than 950 herds in 16 states. But now, a new version is spreading, per the Guardian . This one, D1.1—the same genotype that infected the...

Don't Look for Cheap Eggs Anytime Soon

Bird flu continues to ravage poultry farms

(Newser) - Bird flu is forcing farmers to slaughter millions of chickens a month, pushing US egg prices to more than double their cost in summer 2023. As the AP reports, it appears there may be no relief in sight, given the coming Easter demand. The average price per dozen nationwide hit...

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