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Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US

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Re: Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US

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Post by AtlasBarfed »

SECProto wrote: post #159
bigtex wrote: post #36

My wife has a cottage baking business and would buy 15 dozen eggs from Costco Business Center. Already high, a few months back in cost about $45 for the box. Just last week it was $110. She doesn't recall but it fairly certain the box was between $20-30 before inflation hit. However she said they had chicken legs that were .49/lb which is a great price but hard to reconcile with the narrative that avian flu is the ca…

> 15 dozen eggs from Costco Business Center. [...] Just last week it was $110. Might I suggest buying eggs from a normal grocery store or other alternative source? That's $7.33 per dozen and unless you have some very unusual situation, a dozen eggs can be had for less than half that price at a grocery store.

I just paid 7$ for a dozen eggs at a grocery store, and they were not organic or special in any way.

Re: Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US

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Post by ar_lan »

scifibestfi wrote: post #137
ksherlock wrote: post #22

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…

Early in my career, I consulted for Coke to ensure sugar taxes failed and soda was included in food stamp funding. I say Coke's policies are evil because I saw inside the room. The first step in playbook was paying the NAACP + other civil rights groups to call opponents racist Coke gave millions to the NAACP and the Hispanic Federation - both directly and through front groups like the American Beverage Association. T…

> Coke's position was clear: soda is one of the cheapest ways to get calories - a flagrantly inaccurate statement when factoring in the health consequences.

I'm always amazed at how many people flat out get angry with me when I say fast food is simply not cheaper than cooking yourself, provided you have a kitchen. I'm consistently told that that level of thinking is necessarily classist (and therefore racist), because it's more time, effort, and in the short-term, money, that needs to be involved.

I do not understand how making stir fry with chicken breast/thighs, frozen veggies, and rice is somehow the most expensive, time-consuming task in the world, but apparently that's a high-class dinner to many folks on the internet, and I'm 100% convinced it's because of the lie they are told (and then perpetuate) that the dollar amount you see in front of you is the dollar amount in totality.

Don't do Reddit, folks.

Re: Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US

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Post by jonnycomputer »

bottlepalm wrote: post #167

$40,000 for every man, woman and child was printed for corona stimulus. $13 trillion total. If you're wondering why all this inflation happened, it's pretty simple cause and effect.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/11/business/bird-flu-japan-chick...

Would you consider perhaps that a sky-rocketing price in eggs, when inflation overall has been between 6% and 8% might be about something else?

Re: Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US

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Post by themitigating »

umvi wrote: post #187
scifibestfi wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Early in my career, I consulted for Coke to ensure sugar taxes failed and soda was included in food stamp funding. I say Coke's policies are evil because I saw inside the room. The first step in playbook was paying the NAACP + other civil rights groups to call opponents racist Coke gave millions to the NAACP and the Hispanic Federation - both directly and through front groups like the American Beverage Association. T…

If this is true, shouldn't there be consequences for NAACP? Surely accepting cash to weaponize racism is (or should be) illegal?

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Re: Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US

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Post by WarOnPrivacy »

brewdad wrote: post #220
tantalor wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

See: 1st Amendment to US Constitution

If the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Where does the road paved with evil intentions go?

The judges consulted; this internet win stands.

Re: Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US

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Post by jonnycomputer »

bottlepalm wrote: post #167

$40,000 for every man, woman and child was printed for corona stimulus. $13 trillion total. If you're wondering why all this inflation happened, it's pretty simple cause and effect.

The price of eggs has increased far far more than general inflation. I'm sorry, but this a pretty rock-bottom post.

Re: Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US

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Post by iinnPP »

brewdad wrote: post #220
tantalor wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

See: 1st Amendment to US Constitution

If the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Where does the road paved with evil intentions go?

Same road but with shortcuts.

I think we have an accepted fallacy in logic where we apply: Assume ignorance before malice.

I do agree ignorance is far more probable than malice, but malicious people are incredibly skilled at exploitation of ignorance and they use that skill without missing a beat.

Re: Eggs are 60% more expensive than last year in the US

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Post by lghh »

notinfuriated wrote: post #210
scifibestfi wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Early in my career, I consulted for Coke to ensure sugar taxes failed and soda was included in food stamp funding. I say Coke's policies are evil because I saw inside the room. The first step in playbook was paying the NAACP + other civil rights groups to call opponents racist Coke gave millions to the NAACP and the Hispanic Federation - both directly and through front groups like the American Beverage Association. T…

> "We (Coke) will give you money. You need to paint opponents of us as racist." It's funny, I heard my father-in-law parroting this when complaining about soda taxes. I also don't care for the taxes, but I don't see them as inherently racist. In fact, hearing him say this made me think that the characterization of the tax being racist is, itself, racist, as it bears the presumption that various minorities more regula…

I think it's more of a blending of what's racist vs what's classist in America.

The argument should be that regressive taxes like soda taxes, much like speeding tickets, affects the poor at a much greater clip. Who cares about a soda tax or a speeding ticket when you make 500k a year? If you make that much and you want soda or you want to speed, you're going to do it. However, if you make 28k a year, the calculation is much different.

In America, poverty and race are strongly correlated (and there's causation, but I digress). Because of that, it's easy, although inaccurate, to use classism and racism interchangeably.

Calling someone racist creates a larger emotional response and is more damaging to social equity than calling someone classist.

Hence calling soda taxes racist.

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