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"The amount we could export would not solve their egg shortage," says the head of the Finnish Poultry Association.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20250316133318/https://yle.fi/a/74-20149786


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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

In before Trump calls the President of Finland a Dictator.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

How would this even work? If sent on a boat, they would have to refrigerate them to damn near freezing so they can make the trip. If flown, the added cost would be steep.

The whole fresh egg supply chain seems to be linked to local farms.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Why not just ask Canada? We are offering as long as we get to stamp each egg with a red maple leaf and print the price on the box.

The USA can even tack on a tariff, but they can't change or put labels on the box.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

Finland shares a border with Russia. They know how this goes.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 hours ago

I hope this was the response.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 7 hours ago

Eggcelent choice.