The price of domestic eggs keeps rising, and there are rumors of egg shortages in many places. Some breakfast operators in Gaoping area complained that it was deliberately inflated by egg farmers and egg merchants.

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[Reporter Wang Rongxiang/Kaohsiung Report] More than 30 businesses in Kaohsiung City and Pingtung County today (27th) forwarded a statement by Kaohsiung City Councilors Zheng Guangfeng and Jiang Ruihong, protesting egg farmers and egg merchants from time to time to drive up egg prices. The "No" Egg Campaign also called for eggs to be left for the elderly and children, and called on young and middle-aged consumers not to buy eggs in the short term, hoping to suppress egg prices and return to a reasonable mechanism.

About 30 managers of small breakfast shops in the Gaoping area gathered in the Kaohsiung City Council this morning. Accompanied by Zheng Guangfeng and Jiang Ruihong, they issued a statement targeting egg farmers and merchants. Taiwanese breakfast and even catering businesses should not buy eggs for the time being, and relevant units should conduct a comprehensive inspection of egg hoarding.

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The industry said that breakfast shops, catering and other industries have a large demand for eggs. For these industries with a large amount of eggs, the original egg price market mechanism will notify the announcement on Monday before the price increase; if the price is lowered, the announcement will be made on Wednesday; but last week The egg merchant suddenly notified last Friday that the price will increase on Monday (27th) by 60 yuan per box, which has unilaterally destroyed the market mechanism.

The industry believes that because the north-central egg merchants bought eggs from the southern egg farmers at a higher price, another wave of egg price panic was caused. The shortage of eggs and the sharp price increase were caused by hoarding and panic; Panic caused families to rush to buy and hoard, which made the shortage of eggs worse, and caused egg prices to go up even more.

The industry emphasizes that fresh eggs can only be stored for a week, and the lack of eggs is only a temporary phenomenon, not a structural problem. In addition to evaluating the connection between breakfast shops and catering companies not to buy eggs, they also call on consumers to resist not consuming eggs for at least a week or even more days, so that Egg merchants and egg farmers cannot maliciously drive up egg prices.

Zheng Guangfeng suggested that the nutrition of eggs can be replaced by other foods, such as beans. He supports the industry and hopes that the demand for eggs can return to the normal mechanism through various methods.

More than 30 breakfast shops in Gaoping plan to connect with their counterparts in Taiwan to "reject" eggs.

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The breakfast industry criticizes egg farmers and egg merchants for driving up prices arbitrarily and undermining the market mechanism.

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Xiao Li, a breakfast business owner, lamented that the soaring egg price made business difficult.

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