Japan killed 17 million chickens amid an outbreak of bird flu. Now it's running out of space to bury them.

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Officials in protective suits work at a chicken farm where an outbreak of a highly pathogenic bird flu was confirmed in Mitoyo, western Japan, in this photo taken by Kyodo November 5, 2020. Picture taken November 5, 2020.
Japan killed 17 million chickens amid an outbreak of bird flu. Now it's running out of space to bury them.

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Eggs are so expensive that Dollar Tree has just given up stocking them

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This Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021, photo shows a woman leaving a Dollar Tree store in Urbandale, Iowa.
Dollar Tree said Tuesday that it will halt egg sales until later this year as avian flu keeps egg prices near historic highs.

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Don't buy a backyard chicken to combat inflation

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Kelly Rutkowski of the Adopt a Bird Network helps place chickens in need of homes.

Kelly Rutkowski, Adopt a Bird Network

The high cost of eggs could give us a taste of an expensive, ethical, and cage-free future, an eggspert says

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Eggs.

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Companies could lower grocery store prices if the US passed immigration reform, says a major food CEO: 'It's a crisis out here in terms of labor availability'

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The surge in avian flu is likely to cause the price of eggs to skyrocket again, Land O'Lakes CEO Beth Ford told Time.

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