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You're not going to get cheap eggs. You're not going to get cheap anything. Trump lied to you. Again. And you fell for it. Again.
Eggs are expensive because consolidated industrial farming has given us a denser population of birds vulnerable to increasingly virulent strains of bird flu.
We can have "cheap" eggs again if we (a) reduce our dependence on these enormous, unhygienic factory farms, (b) invest more on preventative care for farm animals, and (c) focus on a distribution chain that pursues individual human demand rather than maximal market price.
Obviously Trump won't deliver on any of that. But cheap abundant foodstuffs aren't beyond our capacity as a domestic economy. Its just that exorbitantly priced staples fulfill an investor demand rather than a consumer demand.