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Waffle House adds egg surcharge, citing bird flu-fueled shortage
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The Waffle House has added a temporary surcharge of 50 cent per egg amid rising egg prices from the bird flu outbreak.
Why it matters: The disease has ravaged the nation’s supply of eggs, leading to egg shortages and increased prices in grocery stores.
- Avian influenza has affected at least 22.7 million birds in the last 30 days, according to USDA data.
The big picture: The Georgia-based company, which has about 2,100 locations nationwide, is believed to be the first major restaurant chain to add an egg surcharge.
- Waffle House said in a news release that the temporary surcharge of 50 cents per egg began Monday.
- “Rather than increasing prices across the menu, this is a temporary targeted surcharge tied to the unprecedented rise in egg prices,” the company said.
What they’re saying: “The continuing egg shortage caused by HPAI (Bird Flu) has caused a dramatic increase in egg prices,” Waffle House said in a statement. “Consumers and restaurants are being forced to make difficult decisions.”
- “As long as they are available, quality, fresh-cracked, Grade A Large eggs will remain a key ingredient in many of our customers favorite meal,” the company said.
What’s next: Egg prices are expected to go up by 20% this year, according to the USDA.
- A timeframe for Waffle House’s egg surcharge is unknown.
- “While we hope these price fluctuations will be short-lived we cannot predict how long this shortage will last,” the company said.
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Wisconsin DNR to issue more bear hunting licenses, set higher kill goal in 2025
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The Department of Natural Resources will issue 14% more black bear hunting licenses as part of a plan to hit a 6% higher kill goal for the species this year in Wisconsin.
The DNR’s bear hunting proposal, including 13,110 licenses and a harvest quota of 4,075 bears, was approved unanimously Jan. 22 by the Natural Resources Board in Madison.
By zone, the 2025 bear season will have the following number of licenses and quota: Zone A, 1,680 and 1,075; B, 1,610 and 900; C, 3,750 and 750; D, 3,570 and 1,110; E, 2,000 and 200; and F, 500 and 50.
The numbers reflect results from the 2024 Wisconsin bear hunting season and the latest review of the state’s bear population by the DNR’s Bear Advisory Committee.
Last fall the DNR issued 11,501 licenses and hunters registered 4,301 bears, 12% more than the quota, according to a post-hunt DNR report.
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That came on the heels of a 2023 season in which hunters registered 3,005 bears, lowest in Wisconsin since 2008.
But conditions in 2023 featured a heavy mast crop, providing a wealth of natural food in the woods for bears and reducing the effectiveness of bait piles set out by hunters, and an abnormally low hunter success rate of 24%.
The 2024 season saw more normal conditions and a 37% hunter success rate.
Randy Johnson, DNR large carnivore specialist, said the state’s bear population remains healthy and the increased quota is warranted to meet objectives.
The DNR’s Bear Advisory Committee met Dec. 3 and 4 to review and discuss data and develop preliminary recommendations for the 2025 hunt.
The committee consists of representatives of the DNR staff, federal agency partners, Ojibwe tribes, and stakeholder groups representing hunting and agricultural interests.
The group meets annually to assign each of the state’s six bear management zones an objective of increase, decrease or maintain the bear population as well as recommend license numbers and kill goals.
The goals are based on a number of factors, including bear nuisance complaints, agricultural damage, hunter satisfaction, hunter crowding/conflict, hunter success rates and data on bear health, according to the DNR.
The number of licenses to be made available to achieve the desired quotas is determined with average hunter success rates in each zone.
The 2025 bear population objective in Zones A, B, C and E is maintain, while D is decrease and F, which has the fewest bears and least amount of bear habitat, is “allow local control.”
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The number of licenses was increased in Zones B, C, D and E, decreased in A and held even in F.
The DNR estimates the state’s 2025 pre-hunt bear population will be 24,403 animals.
Interest in bear hunting continues to increase in Wisconsin, Johnson said. Last year 101,035 people applied for a bear hunting preference point and 33,733 applied for a license, according to DNR figures.
As another measure of the interest in Wisconsin bear hunting, in 2024 it took 10 preference points to draw a tag in Zone A (an increase of one from 2023), 11 points in Zone B (no change), 3 points in Zone C (an increase of one), and one point each in Zones D, E and F.
Applicants accrue one preference point for each year they apply.
The 2025 licenses will be awarded in a DNR drawing this winter. The number of points needed to draw a license is expected to be similar to last year.
Bear baiting season opens April 15. Dogs may be trained by pursuing bear statewide on lands open to public hunting or on private lands with permission from July 1 to Aug. 31.
The 2025 Wisconsin bear hunting season will run Sept. 3 to Oct. 7.
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Donald Trump Jr. accused of illegal duck hunting near Venice
Alvise Armellini
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ROME, Feb 4 (Reuters) – Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of U.S. President Donald Trump, broke Italian and European Union environmental protection laws when he hunted ducks near Venice in December, according to two Italian Green party lawmakers.
Andrea Zanoni, a member of the Veneto regional assembly, and Luana Zanella, a national parliamentarian, have filed two separate parliamentary questions urging regional and national authorities to take action against the alleged offence.
In a Facebook post on Tuesday, Zanoni said he had seen footage of Trump Jr. hunting in a “Natura 2000” EU conservation zone in the Venice lagoon, standing near a dead ruddy shelduck, a protected species.
“The video shows Trump Jr. with a ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea) in the foreground, a duck that is very rare in all of Europe and protected by the EU Birds Directive and by the Italian law on the protection of wild fauna … The killing or holding of this animal is punishable by law,” Zanoni said.
Hunting in Italy is legal, but strictly regulated.
In the nearly 6-minute video Zanoni referred to, Trump Jr. can be seen on a duck hunting trip in marshlands near Venice promoted by Field Ethos, an outdoors activities brand he co-founded.
“Lots of wigeon, teal (ducks),” he says in the video, describing his hunting spoils. He then says he also caught “a rather uncommon duck for the area, not even sure what it is in English”, before concluding: “incredible shoot”.
Reuters reached out to Field Ethos for a comment, via its website, and to Trump Jr. via social media and by email to the Trump Organization, where Trump Jr. serves as executive vice president. There were no immediate responses.
A voiceover in the Field Ethos video says the expedition took place on private land, and that hunting there occurs no more than once a week and that precautions are taken to respect the local environment.
That video was not dated, although a shorter version was posted on YouTube by Field Ethos on Dec. 31, 2024. Italian media reported Trump Jr. was in Venice in December with his girlfriend.
Environment Minister Gilberto Pichetto Fratin was quoted as saying by ANSA news agency that he was waiting for a report about the alleged incident after being made aware of it from press reports.
(Reporting by Alvise Armellini, additional reporting by Angelo Amante and Giulia Segreti; Editing by Alison Williams)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/04/donald-trump-jr-hunting/78207902007/
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