This isn't a bottleneck in the supply-chain - it's a monopoly at play.
Or, rather, *monopolies*. The whole poultry supply-chain is an inbred mess. The entire realm of chicken genetics - that is, which chickens exist at all - is controlled by two European firms, the PE-backed Hendrix Genetics and the billionaire-owned Erich Wesjohann Group. These companies have bought or killed virtually every source of egg-laying hens in America over 20 years.
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