Sky High Egg Prices Boost Other Food Costs; Restaurants and Bakeries Hit Hard

As the price of eggs continues to rise, so does the cost of other foods that contain eggs as an ingredient.
As previously reported by The Epoch Times, egg prices have been on the rise since the outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), also known as the avian flu or bird flu, which hit the United States last year. An estimated 58 million birds have died or been culled due to the current outbreak, according to the CDC.
Consumer Price Index data (pdf) released on Feb. 14 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) revealed that in January of 2023, the cost of eggs was 8.5 percent higher than it was in December of 2022. Further, it was 70 percent higher than it was last January. As the price of eggs goes up, so does the cost of a host of other foods….