Pennsylvania police are scrambling to break the case after stealing 100,000 organic eggs from the back of the trailer during the weekend, as egg prices continue to rise in the United States.
Boiled eggs, estimated at $ 40,000 (approximately $ 57276), was in a Pete & Gery’s Organics distribution trailer in Greencastle, Pennsylvania, when one of them stormed it around 8:40 pm on February 1. According to reports.
Beit and Jerry said in A. statement.
The Huevos theft is investigated, and the Pennsylvania State Police Department urges any person who has the theft information to contact the Chamberburg office.
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The police did not mention how someone managed to take 100,000 eggs without anyone noticing or if he had any possible threads in the boiled case.
According to Eggs Web site, PETE & Gerry organic groups “is a higher level of agricultural practices and animal care through an entire industry”, which “does not happen without knowing some feathers – we outperform screaming and walking.”
The company operates with more than 200 independent and family farms and is located via New England, the center of the Atlantic and Middle West.
The stealing of eggs comes at a time when the prices of eggs in the United States continue to rise in prices after uncompromising the outbreak of bird flu that destroy poultry farms and force farmers to kill millions of chicken.
The average cost of tens of large eggs was $ 4.15 in December 2024, According to the work statistics office. This represents an increase of 37 percent from the previous year. Egg prices may rise with the Ministry of Agriculture in the United States Predicting costs for a 20 % altitude In 2025.
–With files from Global News’ Katie Dangerfield
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