Thursday, February 23, 2017

The Great 2017 British Egg Crisis


Retailers across the country could see two million fewer free range eggs per day from March 1, once a government housing order is lifted on February 28.  The whole thing is largely down to bird flu fears.

- Mirror:  There's about to be a massive egg shortage – and prices could rise

Around 700,000 eggs are eaten every day in Britain – nearly ten per cent of us choose them for breakfast.

- Mirror

Those numbers may make it seem like Britain's problem isn't so much with chickens but rather it's with arithmetic.  However, everything is working as usual because Britain is using the same opinion-based educational system as South Dakota.  (Ithaka:  South Dakota Evolution Education Like a Golden Corral Buffet)

Britain permits maths teachers to present the arithmetic in any way they like based on their personal opinions.  Some choose counting on the fingers, others choose the abacus, and others believe feminine intuition is all that's necessary for arithmetic skill.

Ed:  you're not supposed to count your chickens anyway!

In England it's better if they don't count them since they aren't much good at it.


Ed:  it's another case of good English chickens being lost because of diseased refugee chickens!

Well, the concern is avian flu from China and the refugees are from the combat areas in the Middle East so your logic may need some review.

Ed:  elephants are going extinct because of the Chinese and soon that will happen with the British as well.  (Ithaka:  China Owns the Extinction of African Elephants - Science)

Don't worry since we have some breeding programs to keep them alive in zoos.  You will still be able to watch them drinking tea while they watch WWII documentaries all day long.

Ed:  that's what happened after Monty Python?

Yep, nothing but bleedin' WWII documentaries on Brit TV these days.  Now (sob) the parrot really is dead.

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