In California, eggs are more expensive due to a combination of factors including higher production costs, bird flu and the ...

For example, out of the nearly 47 million birds slaughtered just since the start of December, more than 3 million of them were on five cage-free farms in California. Anytime birds must be killed ...

Chronic staff shortages have left the California lab struggling to protect the state’s food chain from bird flu, the workers said.