Q: How many eggs are laid each year in the United States?
A: 72 billion
Q. How many chickens are in the egg producing business?
A. About 340 million.. According to USDA "U.S. egg production totaled 7.45 billion during June 2010, up 1 percent from last year. Production included
6.38 billion table eggs, and 1.07 billion hatching eggs, of which 1.00 billion were broiler-type and 69 million
were egg-type. The total number of layers during June 2010 averaged 338 million, up 1 percent from last
year. June egg production per 100 layers was 2,203 eggs, unchanged from June 2009."
Q. How many eggs are being recalled, give or take a few yolks..
A. 360 million. According to my math, that's about 5 percent of all eggs and about 15 million chickens...
That's a lot of omelettes..
Throughout all this the outcry from Congress has been nearly non-existent. Compared to the bashing FDA took under the previous president, the slience has been... welcome.
Salmonella happens.. all the time. There is more food produced more efficiently than ever before. We will recover from our egg deficit in no time. Tracking outbreaks requires more than increasing the size of the food police. It requires better tools and coordination. The last thing we need is a Food Safety Czar or a separate Food Safety Agency..
That would really be laying an egg..
A: 72 billion
Q. How many chickens are in the egg producing business?
A. About 340 million.. According to USDA "U.S. egg production totaled 7.45 billion during June 2010, up 1 percent from last year. Production included
6.38 billion table eggs, and 1.07 billion hatching eggs, of which 1.00 billion were broiler-type and 69 million
were egg-type. The total number of layers during June 2010 averaged 338 million, up 1 percent from last
year. June egg production per 100 layers was 2,203 eggs, unchanged from June 2009."
Q. How many eggs are being recalled, give or take a few yolks..
A. 360 million. According to my math, that's about 5 percent of all eggs and about 15 million chickens...
That's a lot of omelettes..
Throughout all this the outcry from Congress has been nearly non-existent. Compared to the bashing FDA took under the previous president, the slience has been... welcome.
Salmonella happens.. all the time. There is more food produced more efficiently than ever before. We will recover from our egg deficit in no time. Tracking outbreaks requires more than increasing the size of the food police. It requires better tools and coordination. The last thing we need is a Food Safety Czar or a separate Food Safety Agency..
That would really be laying an egg..
