“Let’s talk about eggs and why there’s a massive shortage and a massive increase in pricing. The RNA technology, you know, the same technology that is in the jab, is now in a lot of chicken feed,” says a woman in a January 29, 2023 TikTok video with more than 78,000 views.
The claim spread further on TikTok and other social platforms, including Facebook and Twitter. The posts sprung up alongside other conspiracy theories about US egg shortages, including some that falsely tied the scarcity to billionaire Bill Gates.
The claims about chicken feed are also false.
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Lilong Chai, an assistant professor at the University of Georgia’s College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, previously told AFP that US egg shortages “are primarily caused by the outbreak of avian influenza.”
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Jayson Lusk, head of the Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University, said in a January 27, 2023 blog post that inflation has also affected production. He told AFP that social media posts about RNA in chicken feed are promoting “a conspiracy.”
“You naturally have RNA in every cell of your body, as do I,” Lusk said. “If a chicken eats anything that was living (like corn), it will have RNA. It’s not being ‘added’ as an isolated ingredient.”
