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

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Post by peteradio »

devchix wrote: post #317
peteradio wrote: post #189

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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…

Next time you break down some beef you could try a taste of the melted tallow and see what you think. Mine doesn't taste beefy (IMO) but I go through some effort to filter it so that it keeps for a long time.

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Post by dgoldstein0 »

legerdemain wrote: post #272
WalterBright wrote: post #241

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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.

Apples don't contribute much to a healthy diet: they're sweet, acidic enough to damage tooth enamel, and packed with fructose. You'd be much better off leaving fruit out of your diet and occasionally treating yourself to a little bit of brown rice or raw broccoli in between your meals of beans and potatoes.

Apples are a lot healthier than the same amount of fructose in isolation. they have a huge amount of fiber, which is both filling and good for your microbiome. And I'd bet on some good vitamin content though I'm not sure which off the top of my head.

Some fruits may be not much better than candy in that the sugar can metabolize quickly, but apples aren't one of those despite their fructose content.

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Post by dgoldstein0 »

frosted-flakes wrote: post #300
WalterBright wrote: post #244

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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.

It depends on the food item. Ready to eat things like premade sandwiches or frozen food may have some taxes. Raw ingredients - produce, meat, eggs, bread, rice, oils, milk, cheese, etc- tend not to.

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Post by gamblor956 »

mechanical_bear wrote: post #249
jonnycomputer wrote: post #226

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>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...

I am in California. Yesterday I bought the organic cage free vegetarian fed brown eggs at Safeway, they were $5.99 I could have spent less for the plain white eggs, and this is at Safeway which is not known for their low prices. I’m just not seeing these quoted prices anywhere.

We have lots of chicken farms in California, so our supply is somewhat isolated from the rest of the U.S.

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Post by mint2 »

amalgamated_inc wrote: post #309
mint2 wrote: post #84

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So is that to say all regulations are bad?

Yes

I like how regulations got rid of lead paint, got rid of LA’s pea soup smog, stopped rivers from being so polluted they’d catch fire, and brought back the American eagle. Just a few examples.

a reactionary “all regulation bad” view is too simplistic and doesn’t make for good discourses.

but what do I know, I must be biased because I’m not a fan of asbestos.

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Post by amalgamated_inc »

mint2 wrote: post #91
amalgamated_inc wrote: post #54

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Treating the short term adjustment effects of a new rule as the same as the eventual steady state impact of the rule makes arguments against new rules seem deceptive and misleading

Ignoring the cumulative burden of infinite bureaucracy and surveillance seems deceptive and misleading

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Post by amalgamated_inc »

grumple wrote: post #319
amalgamated_inc wrote: post #313

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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/effecti…

"For the top 1%"

On average, aka the vast majority of tax revenue, it's stayed constant according to your own source.

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Post by mcphage »

nradov wrote: post #303
snapcaster wrote: post #142

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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.

> Almost all of the cholesterol in your body was endogenously synthesized.

From what?

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Post by captainredbeard »

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…

It’s more complicated than that, please reference the Whole Foods egg producer standards document.
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