{"id":30181,"date":"2022-11-23T12:13:12","date_gmt":"2022-11-23T12:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=30181"},"modified":"2022-12-07T14:17:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-07T14:17:01","slug":"crisis-in-the-egg-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/crisis-in-the-egg-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Crisis in the Egg Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Customers at some of the UK&#8217;s biggest supermarkets are being limited to 3 boxes of eggs each, as ASDA, Tesco and Lidl begin rationing their sales. Other supermarkets like Sainsbury&#8217;s have admitted they&#8217;re sourcing eggs from Italy, despite previously promising to buy British eggs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/12\/out-fo-stock-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30477\" width=\"770\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/12\/out-fo-stock-2-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/12\/out-fo-stock-2-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/12\/out-fo-stock-2-1-293x194.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/12\/out-fo-stock-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30477\" width=\"770\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/12\/out-fo-stock-2-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/12\/out-fo-stock-2-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2022\/12\/out-fo-stock-2-1-293x194.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A shortage of eggs can be seen in many of the UK&#8217;s largest supermarkets. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The supermarkets are blaming the egg shortage on increased levels of Avian flu, but some Welsh poultry farmers say the supermarkets are also partly to blame. Victoria Shervington-Jones, an egg producer, says increased production costs and what farmers receive from supermarkets has meant that many producers &#8220;are deciding not to restock their birds&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mrs Shervington-Jones claims that while supermarkets have increased the price of eggs for customers by around 45p per dozen, that increase hasn&#8217;t been shared with poultry farmers. The average price for a dozen eggs at Tesco, Sainsbury&#8217;s and ASDA is \u00a32.55 but she says farmers aren&#8217;t being paid even half of that. She explains that &#8220;farmers need to be getting an average of around \u00a31.25 a dozen to break even, we&#8217;re not even talking about making a profit yet, and they&#8217;re not getting anywhere near that at the moment.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other Welsh egg producers have used social media to back these claims. Ioan Humphreys, or <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThatWelshFarmer?s=20&amp;t=vciABsnrkKB8HLbrHcWZ9Q\">&#8216;ThatWelshFarmer&#8217;<\/a> on Twitter, explains that the cost of productions has &#8220;sky-rocketed&#8221; and farmers can no longer &#8220;afford to produce these eggs&#8221;. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Share this far and wide.. Avian Flu is not the main reason we\u2019re in an egg shortage. Supermarkets doing as they please again. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/eggshortage?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#eggshortage<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/backbritishfarming?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#backbritishfarming<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k0rr1Q3Tsa\">pic.twitter.com\/k0rr1Q3Tsa<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Ioan Humphreys \ud83d\udc11\ud83d\udc04\ud83d\udc13 (@ThatWelshFarmer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ThatWelshFarmer\/status\/1589897393054441473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 8, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Victoria Shervington-Jones hopes shoppers will support local farmers rather than buy imported products. 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