Be careful out there, flipping off other drivers is considered "road rage" in some places and can get you ticketed.

Plus, a thumbs down with a look of disgust is funnier!

It wasn't started by game journalists, it was started by the same deplorables who helped elect 45/47. Gamergate was just a successful trial run of that battlefront tactic. It's all astoturf, smoke, and mirrors but it's still the same class war.

I've heard a few similar theories.

Not only do meat-varieties have shorter life than egg-varieties (I think egg-varieties take longer to lay their first egg than meat-varieties get total), but there are also many more egg-layers at each facility.

Also, the locations of the facilities relative to migration routes or windstreams may be playing a role. I've heard the egg facilities are more concentrated around migration routes, so they're more likely to get contaminated.

It's a good question / interesting topic - but a terrible situation otherwise from non-academic standpoints

It's always been a tounge-in-cheek or derogatory description, like pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, meant to cut through distracting rhetoric: Either make economic policy for the many, or the few will instead horde all they can and pee and poop on the many.