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Broilers take a fraction of the time to grow compared to the five months it takes before a hen lays the first egg.
12 weeks for most chickens we eat. It’s honestly crazy lol
horrific. they breed frankenstein bodied animals, that this is even allowed makes me sick.
Lydon Johnson had an answer (via George Will): In 1966, the price of eggs rose to a level that President Lyndon Johnson judged, God knows how, was too high. There were two culprits – supply and demand – and Johnson’s agriculture secretary told him there was not much that could be done. LBJ, however, was a can-do fellow who directed the US surgeon general to dampen demand by warning the nation about the hazards of cho…
Is the fact that Johnson died at 64 of a heart attack somewhat ironic, or was he speaking from personal experience about the dangers of eggs (and the bacon everyone ate daily)?
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Not exactly. Free birds can still spread the flu from one location to another, e.g. by dropping excrements.
Right, but if you don’t mix flocks, how do they get their excrements from one backyard to another that is distant?
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Actually there’s more. On Jan 1st several more states laws about animal welfare went into effect whereas before essentially only California had those requirements. The supply of eggs meeting those requirements had not been ramped up to meet the step in demand. I expect that disruption will be temporary.
So why then are my Pasture Raised Organic eggs increasing at the same rate as budget eggs. These regulations would not impact those operations
But then we went back the next day and they had a few dozen eggs.
Answer: Bird flu and inflation (less so). Although I suspect in short time we'll find out that the price hikes due to "bird flu" and "inflation" become... permanent.
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There have been several studies that have shown eggs to be healthy. There are several studies that show they are unhealthy. Bias is a real problem in nutrition science. There are zero interventional studies that show eggs to be unhealthy. In other words no one has given eggs to one group, observed another group not eat eggs and shown that eggs CAUSE a negative health outcome. Instead people have made statistical calc…
> There have been several studies that have shown eggs to be healthy. There are several studies that show they are unhealthy. Bias is a real problem in nutrition science. Mostly because "healthy" is a bit subjective. If some study finds a correlation between egg consumption and a +1% chance of developing a rare cancer - who really cares? When you look at how rare the cancer is, when you might develop it, and the smal…
Drinking zero Alcohol actually decreases the likely hood of you living to a ripe old age.
Is it that Alcohol is healthy in small doses? Probably not. Perhaps people who drink a glass of wine once or twice a month have a less stressful life than someone who never drinks.
That's why nutrition studies are so hard to be done right. You have to literally watch them consume it and you need a control group and it needs to take place over years.
There are books written about Bluezones that say eating meat shortens your life yet HongKong has the both the highest life expectancy and the highest per person meat consumption in the world.
You really have to take every single claim and study with a big giant grain of salt and a whole lot of skepticism.
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Actually there’s more. On Jan 1st several more states laws about animal welfare went into effect whereas before essentially only California had those requirements. The supply of eggs meeting those requirements had not been ramped up to meet the step in demand. I expect that disruption will be temporary.
So why then are my Pasture Raised Organic eggs increasing at the same rate as budget eggs. These regulations would not impact those operations
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They definitely did help the chickens.
Unfortunately for the chickens, a government is supposed to serve the interests and well-being of its citizens, not that of its livestock (insert joke about there being no difference).