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

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Post by poulsbohemian »

voisin wrote: post #248
poulsbohemian wrote: post #216

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I just did some very casual back of the envelope math for my backyard flock. Assuming worst possible outputs and highest monthly costs, it works out to the equivalent of $5/dozen. In my area, roadside stands and/or grocery store “free-range, organic” eggs have been more than $7/dozen for years now. My gut tells me that over the time we’ve had these chickens, our actual break even would be closer to $4/dozen once our…

These numbers are very close to what we’ve found with our flock.

I'm sure you recognize the same dynamics we have in our small flock - we had 7 birds, then later went up to 10. There is a down time for the molt, and production is slower in the winter. These birds are now essentially three year olds, so I expect there to be a drop in production. Yet all that said - we're still conservatively averaging 3 eggs a day. So you extrapolate out an average of 100 eggs / mo (again - even that is really conservative) and $50/mo on feed/supplies (and let's be real - that's generous, it's probably more like $30/mo typically) and the numbers play really well for backyard chickens.

That said - we have had a lot more coop expenses than expected, because our neighbors wanted to be jerks about it and I wanted to keep the peace. So realistically the "savings" we would have had in egg costs have likely been eaten up or significantly reduced by having to rebuild / move our coop.

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Post by ryandrake »

yterdy wrote: post #274
ar_lan wrote: post #232

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> 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), becaus…

>I do not understand Well, that's an easy fix. Ask your employer to cut your salary to ~$20k-$30k. Tell them that you're going to be in the office at 7 on-the-dot, and he can write you up if you're 5 minutes early or late; you're going to be there for 8-10 hours, w/ a 30-minute lunch and two 15-minute breaks (again, write-ups for taking even a minute longer than alotted). Sell your car, get a used one (financed, of c…

I don't see how any of that stops someone from "making stir fry with chicken breast/thighs, frozen veggies, and rice" as OP put it. Maybe the chicken is the most expensive part of that. What does your retirement account or mattress have to do with taking a few minutes to cook some veggies and rice?

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Post by nradov »

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_

There is little relationship between cholesterol consumption and serum cholesterol levels. It's a large molecule and can't be directly absorbed through the digestive system. Almost all of the cholesterol in your body was endogenously synthesized.

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Post by fknorangesite »

mcculley wrote: post #255
fknorangesite wrote: post #224

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> bread and starch is at the bottom of the food pyramid This hasn't been true for 18 years.

This is a great example of a mesofact. It is one of those things where experience actually works against a better understanding of the world.

Yeah. The "food pyramid with grains on the bottom" version was around for 13 years - shorter than it's now been gone.

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Post by thatguy0900 »

mym1990 wrote: post #170
mynameisash wrote: post #136

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No, those numbers are correct.

So in 2019 15 dozen eggs were 30c cheaper than 5 dozen eggs?

Costco is a bulk grocer. You pay a yearly fee to shop at Costco, and in return you can get extremely good deals on bulk food and items.

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Post by myrmidon »

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...

Sure, but how do you justify that?

Why would it be moral to farm cows but not horses, and pigs but not hares?

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Post by amalgamated_inc »

mint2 wrote: post #84
amalgamated_inc wrote: post #64

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Irrespective of the content of any given regulation, it will slow down, cost money to adapt to, and therefore cause problems with supply. You have to hire a lawer who follows these things, interprets them. Then you have to craft new changes in the way you do things (no matter what things you do or how) to adapt, and you have to also signal that so you won't get audited/inspected (which is a huge cost in time & resour…

So is that to say all regulations are bad?

Yes

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Post by amalgamated_inc »

qclibre22 wrote: post #72
amalgamated_inc wrote: post #59

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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..

Federal Receipts as Percent of Gross Domestic Product : https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYFRGDA188S

Yes. Share ~ steady, but GDP growing - tax income growing.
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