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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 amalgamated_inc »

NineStarPoint wrote: post #150
HideousKojima wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Maybe the majority of the citizens wants to live in a society that is kinder to animals? (That said citizens might not fully appreciate the knock on effects that will have on costs is a separate question. Do people actually want to be kinder to animals if it means eggs cost twice as much?)

Well those people can already buy free-range chickens. This is preventing people who'd rather pay less for cruelly-treated chickens from making that choice.

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Post by throwawayfear »

ar_lan wrote: post #232
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…

> 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…

You are describing idealogues and zealots and bureaucrats who want that problem to continue to exist no matter what. Because they have an agenda which involves taking control of whatever they can if they can. They would be deeply distressed if food insecurity was solved without needing their top-down control.

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Post by amalgamated_inc »

grumple wrote: post #271
amalgamated_inc wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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..

Taxes have been going down consistently for 50 years in the US.

what

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

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Post by throwawayfear »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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…

So much of what you described happens because people intentionally make those bad decisions. That being said, you can still feed yourself well in the above scenario. What the parent described is nutritious and not expensive, and people get food stamps to cover food if they cannot pay for it. The actual problem is that people refuse discipline and don’t want to give up their vices and bad decisions. People hide behind blaming large ephemeral “complexes” and industries because they want to hide from their own irresponsibility and because some just want to have more control over other people including over other people who don’t choose bad decisions.

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

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Post by WalterBright »

WarOnPrivacy wrote: post #284
WalterBright wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've heard the same thing, and I usually respond with prices of decent, filling food at the grocery store - like potatoes, a can of beans, a bag of apples, etc. As for cooking, you can buy a used microwave at the thrift store for about what a soft taco costs at Taco Time.

> I've heard the same thing, and I usually respond with prices of decent, filling food at the grocery store - like potatoes, a can of beans, a bag of apples, etc. As for cooking, you can buy a used microwave at the thrift store for about what a soft taco costs at Taco Time. You may want to factor in that the 20 minutes they have to acquire and prep a meal is already coming out of the 6 hours they have allocated for s…

Takes me 2 minutes to microwave a $2 can of chili. The can is worth about 2 meals. The trip to the store, once a week.

Driving to Taco Time every day takes time, gas, and costs $20 for a meal.

Ironically, I microwave meals and such not because I'm poor, but to save time. I dislike going to restaurants and even McBurger because it takes too much time.

Another meal I like takes less than a minute. Pour some oats in a bowl. Add raisins. Add milk. Ready to eat. I doubt it costs 50 cents. Or make a couple cheese sandwiches with butter and a pickle.

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Post by bottlepalm »

zackmorris wrote: post #287
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.

I did a quick search and I think you might be getting your information from articles like this: https://fee.org/articles/federal-covid-spending-will-cost-41... Fact check: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/04/14/fac... https://theconversation.com/joe-bidens-us-1-9-trillion-stimu... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/11/us/how-covid-... It looks like Biden's contribution is about $2 trillion…

https://www.covidmoneytracker.org/

Capitalism still works. You can only price gouge where you have a monopoly and unless you're proposing some massive intra/inter-industry wide conspiracy the answer is still simple inflation.

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

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Post by devchix »

peteradio wrote: post #189
bluedino wrote: post #109

I was used to them being $1.89 for an 18 pack at Kroger. If I'm working from home I eat 3-4 for breakfast each morning. A couple months ago I noticed they were $5.50 and they've gone higher. 4 pack of butter has been $5.99 as well.

Beef tallow is an excellent and cheap butter substitute for a lot of cases. You can refine 10-20 lbs / beef quarter.

But does it have the beefy smell which will be very odd in baked goods that is not savory, like bread? I recently broke down a tenderloin and came away with nearly 3 pounds of clean beef fat: pure white, firm, no connective tissue. I thought of freezing it but couldn't come up with an application, and it would be one more half-ass attempt to up-cycle something that has no modern use, so I chucked it. It's supposed to be very good for fries, but I have reclaimed duck fat for fries already. There's also a lingering doubt in my mind whether or not animal fat, especially beef fat, in our diet contributes to arterial plaque and :waves hands: things like that.

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Post by bottlepalm »

jonnycomputer wrote: post #237
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.

Ham, bread, etc.. have all gone up 30%. Which means at least half of the 60% increase in the price of eggs can be attributed to inflation. That is significant.

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Post by grumple »

amalgamated_inc wrote: post #313
grumple wrote: post #271

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Taxes have been going down consistently for 50 years in the US.

what

Both the marginal [0] and effective [1] tax rates have been trending downwards since WW2 with relatively little deviation from that. Pus this doesn't take into account all the ways wealthy people can avoid creating taxable income in the first place that generally aren't possible at lower income levels.

0. https://taxfoundation.org/historical-income-tax-rates-bracke...

1. https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/effective-income-tax-...

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

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Post by latchkey »

galleywest200 wrote: post #305

I am curious why Washington state seems immune. A dozen eggs is still $2.99 at the grocery store. I just checked two days ago.

If you can get them. My local trader joes has been completely out of stock of eggs for about a month now. So much so that they moved the display to another fridge so that they could use the space for other items. That other fridge is now sitting there empty as well.
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