in World News Trump’s Agriculture Secretary Encourages Americans to Raise Their Own Chickens at Home
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins recommended that Americans raise their own chickens to help deal with the soaring prices of eggs.
The newly confirmed official in the Cabinet of President Donald Trump made the recommendation on “Fox & Friends Weekend” Saturday to anchor Rachel Campos-Duffy.
“I think the silver lining in all this is how do we, in our backyards — we’ve got chickens, too, in our backyard — how do we solve for something like this?” Rollins said, according to a report from Mediaite.
“And people are sort of looking around thinking, ‘Wow, well, Maybe I can get a chicken in my backyard,’ and it’s awesome.”
Rollins made a similar argument in an opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal, which said that the administration wants to “make it easier for families to raise backyard chickens” in addition to cutting regulations for commercial producers.
Democrats did not like that idea. They have been hounding Trump and his team over high egg prices, which, in turn, came about as a result of poultry farms facing an outbreak of the avian flu.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, called the idea “embarrassing” Monday.