Well, when you kill a bunch of egg layers simple law of supply and demand comes into play. Here's what I don't get. Everyone is pushing to have drug free critters supplying our food. But that means from time to time we are going to have things like bird flu hit our food supply. Then when it does, folks complain that food costs more. You can have it one way of the other, deal with it.
Serious question: is there a "vaccine" to prevent the flu in chickens?