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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 lotsofpulp »

mechanical_bear wrote: post #259
myrmidon wrote: post #227

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> I definitely don’t consider killing animals for food immoral. This is a highly interesting standpoint-- would you consider it morally problematic to kill more intelligent animals for food, like dogs? What about human children (younger than a year? younger than 6?). Is there a line for you somewhere? Where approximately and why? This is drastically different from myself and most meateaters I know which concede moral…

For me at least: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/bc/c5/8c/bcc58ccca47e6e8faa9a...

I.e. the line is drawn where it is convenient and requires no change (sacrifice).

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

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Post by bhelkey »

grumple wrote: post #265
poulsbohemian wrote: post #193

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Where? I live in a poor rural area and every grocery store in town (and we ain’t talkin Whole Foods here) has even generic eggs for more than $5/dozen. Thank goodness I have my own chickens.

Time to get your own chickens if you're in a rural area.

Chicken feed is also more expensive.

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

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Post by idontpost »

amalgamated_inc wrote: post #59
mandmandam wrote: post #20

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Down 0.4 - after a 3.8% rise the year previous. Not exactly the strongest counterexample I've ever seen, though (barely) technically correct. And the last deflationary "period" (a single year) before that was ... drumroll... 1949, following 3 years of >8% inflation.

It's called the ratchet effect. The government doesn't like giving your money back. That's why taxes almost never go down, either - e.g. the "temporary" income tax that only affects the richest 1% of people..

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

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Post by brewdad »

dcchambers wrote: post #212
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…

That's insane. I can get 2 dozen organic eggs for $6.50 at my regular local Costco. She's paying more than double that at a business center.

My Costco didn't have a single egg in stock at any price last week. They've been limiting egg purchases for months.

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Post by phpisthebest »

fnovd wrote: post #97
phpisthebest wrote: post #68

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So why then are my Pasture Raised Organic eggs increasing at the same rate as budget eggs. These regulations would not impact those operations

Because the company you are buying from what doing the minimum to achieve the "Pasture Raised Organic" label, which is not a very high bar. These laws impact them just as much as the "budget eggs". To be a "free-range" or "pasture-raised" chicken you simply need access to the outdoors. So, these animals are kept in the same cramped, feces-filled hothouses that the "budget chickens" are, but there's a tiny hole in the…

That is true for Free Range which is basically meaning less, but Free Range is not the same as Pasture Raised

Normally Pasture Raised means

- at least 1.8 square feet of indoor floor space each

- continuous access to a vegetation-covered outdoor area in which to roam and forage

- at least 4 square feet of outdoor space each

- access to perching and nesting boxes

I buy from Small Farms also...

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Post by phpisthebest »

phil21 wrote: post #267
fnovd wrote: post #97

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Because the company you are buying from what doing the minimum to achieve the "Pasture Raised Organic" label, which is not a very high bar. These laws impact them just as much as the "budget eggs". To be a "free-range" or "pasture-raised" chicken you simply need access to the outdoors. So, these animals are kept in the same cramped, feces-filled hothouses that the "budget chickens" are, but there's a tiny hole in the…

I hate HN sometimes. You are being downvoted for being one of the only people in this thread that has actual direct experience on this matter due to political beliefs. Organic/Free range labeling is almost an outright scam. Very few operations (almost guaranteed to not be one you see in your grocery store) are what people imagine when they see this marketing. Most operations you could not tell the difference between…

Pasture Raised is the more important Labeling, I agree Organic and Free Range is meaningless

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Post by Supermancho »

snapcaster wrote: post #142
skeeter2020 wrote: post #90

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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)?

I think the dietary cholesterol == bad thing is just totally wrong. Sample size of 1 but i eat about 4 eggs a day and steak almost every day but it's not processed fast food and my cholesterol, blood pressure, etc. are all _excellent_

> i eat about 4 eggs a day and steak almost every day

I also had this diet for many years. Wait till you get older. This is a diet will run your cholesterol through the roof.

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Post by Fatnino »

jonnycomputer wrote: post #226
SECProto wrote: post #159

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> 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.

>The USDA shows the current price of a dozen large eggs in California cost about $6.72, which is double what it cost in July. https://abc7.com/egg-prices-in-california-avian-flu-bird-cag...

It's almost exactly the same price as July...

...2015.

And that's without factoring in inflation.

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Post by brewdad »

asciimov wrote: post #152
voisin wrote: post #29

It would be nice to see more people allowed to keep backyard chickens (hens at least, since roosters can be noisy). Since getting some at our place I’ve been surprised how fun they are to have around and easy to care for. Our compost from the kitchen goes to them too, which could help people divert scraps from the landfill or from being picked up (big gas usage) for municipal composting. Their waste is also great fer…

While I'm all for people having chickens, they do need to have lot size requirements. If you think your neighbors dog is noisy in the morning, just wait till they have a flock of chickens.

Our neighborhood has 7000 sq ft lots. My old neighbor had 3 hens and a rooster. Technically, I don't think the rooster was allowed. One day the rooster stopped crowing and I was happy. Other than his early morning call, we never would have known they had those birds except the few times I saw them get out and walk down the street.

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Post by frosted-flakes »

WalterBright wrote: post #244
idunno246 wrote: post #230

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they went through, its like $3-4 for a 2 liter. even diet so its not even about sugar, though diet soda isnt really much better. and i think the latest study is less than half the money went where it was supposed to. at the least, tax at sales tends to be regressive, affecting poor people more than not poor, which maybe you could claim is racist. but pa constitution doesnt allow anything but flat taxes, so unfortunat…

Washington State, to its credit, does not have sales tax on food.

Do any US states charge sales tax on (non-restaurant) food? Canada certainly doesn't, and I would be surprised if any European states do either.
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