We were shopping in COSTCO today and encountered this sign at the entrance and in the dairy cooler. I knew things were bad, but this seemed very extreme. Even the Pancake House announced today that they would add a 50 cent fee to any order that included eggs. It turned out the COSTCO people were just lazy and the sign meant three cartoons of eggs.
I did talk with the local guy while laughing at the sign. He said that the bird flu had reached Kauai and I should purchase the limit if I wanted local eggs. I asked how birds got this far to bring the disease and he was not sure. I said I knew that wild birds infected chicken farms. He claimed the Nene were in trouble and might go extinct again. The Nene are Hawaiian geese related to what we know as Canadians. We see many Nene and while they were near extinction they have recovered to the point they are now a nuisance. New menace in these difficult times.
