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Re: Eggspensive

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Post by voakbasda »

metadat wrote: post #206
voakbasda wrote: post #64

We raise chickens on non-GMO feed and collect over a dozen eggs per day. The eggs available at Walmart are utter garbage compared to those raised locally on good feed and pasture. There's no comparison. Farm fresh egg yolks are the same orange color as the HN banner, while Walmart's eggs are pale imitations that were raised with copious antibiotics and literal shit in their feed. I would go so far as to say that thei…

What happens to the chicken system when you go on vacation? Edit: @voakbasda: thank you for the prompt and courteous reply, good info :)

I have not taken a vacation away from my farm in over ten years. I have had no interest in doing so, because I have everything that I want here.

But chickens? You can load up a feeder and provide ample water that would last for many days without supervision.

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by Dylan16807 »

pessimizer wrote: post #209
Dylan16807 wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> If this were happening across meals, Yeah, it would be different if the situation was different.

I was replying to a comment about a 6-egg breakfast. You're welcome to reduce my 600 hour/year calculation to a 200 hour/year calculation (assuming a three-meal day of an entirely normal family of runners), because I explained exactly what I was doing in a way that you completely understood.

> I was replying to a comment about a 6-egg breakfast.

And that person is already in the upper extreme of most affected.

For you to make a scenario where that is multiplied even further goes beyond anything realistic.

It was clear what you were doing, but that doesn't make it reasonable.

Your other comment says "I'm disagreeing that the doubling or tripling of the prices of basic foodstuffs such as eggs, flour, milk etc. is a silly thing to get hung up on." but you're really going about arguing that in a bad way.

If 5% of your diet triples in price, that's a notable setback, but building up the 5% into a much bigger percent for the sake of argument doesn't make a very convincing one.

There is a huge difference between one foodstuff going up at a time versus all of them, especially if it's temporary. I'm much more worried about the price of every food that isn't eggs. If you gave me a choice between cutting eggs 3x or cutting everything else 10%, I think I'd do the latter.

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Post by ravenstine »

gnulinux wrote: post #199
tomcam wrote: post #188

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which commenter identified as conservative? Or are you mind reading?

These kind of comments are the strangest imho. Do we really need an official declaration to deduce someone who says something as clear as "[I don't have] faith in government that you have currently."? Even if they then claim to be something else -- or even against conservatism -- they still are using the exact same rhetoric GP points out that American conservatives use to unjustly cast doubt on government. It's not h…

This is exactly how I end up being labeled a conservative, besides the fact that I like to shoot guns.

I don't have faith in government. Government is merely a necessary part of the equation. In the eyes of some, this makes me a conservative. Conserving what? I think taxes are necessary, that social programs can do good (including forms of welfare), that no one should be discriminated against, and that the God of the Bible does not exist. Somehow that's not enough because I don't subscribe to the theology of government.

Seriously, I don't know why you think lacking faith in government is a good metric for guessing whether someone is a conservative, as if it even matters for such a comment. Do you assume someone is Black because they say they like basketball?

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Post by bombcar »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #204
bombcar wrote: post #182

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If you get some backyard chickens you'll realize that 1. they don't need to suffer to produce an egg and 2. they can live a long damn time.

Certainly, I had backyard chickens for most of my childhood. I'm not sure the relationship makes sense for me is all. Within a strictly ethical context, it seems to me that abstinence from eating chickens or eggs is the only answer yielding the most completely satisfying results. It's a very subjective thing though. I've had people argue that simply having the chickens offers them a chance to live whereas if everyone…

At that lengths would there be any reason to have a pet? A cat, perhaps?

Now imagine said cat lays eggs ...

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by h2odragon »

We have pet chickens and get a half dozen a day even now in the dead of winter. We got eggs coming out our ears. We give them freely to friends and neighbors, but there's no way for us to share our bounty any further, really. We can go to a flea market or sit beside the road with a sign "Eggs $3/dz" but few people want to buy eggs in such a context.

There's a local Farmer's Co-Op, in theory they could pay people for eggs brought in and sell them to the public and that might make economic sense; but i can't imagine the liabilities and legal hurdles actually making something likethat happen would incur. Significant im sure.

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by earthling8118 »

dokem wrote: post #168
voakbasda wrote: post #64

We raise chickens on non-GMO feed and collect over a dozen eggs per day. The eggs available at Walmart are utter garbage compared to those raised locally on good feed and pasture. There's no comparison. Farm fresh egg yolks are the same orange color as the HN banner, while Walmart's eggs are pale imitations that were raised with copious antibiotics and literal shit in their feed. I would go so far as to say that thei…

Is there any macronutrient differences, though? And i'll be honest every egg I've every tasted has just tasted like egg.

Do you scramble the eggs mostly? I find I notice the most specific things about eggs when I leave the white and yolk separate. Scrambled eggs can be different too but it's harder to notice IMO.

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by ravenstine »

tempsy wrote: post #65
ravenstine wrote: post #22

I think there's something a bit misleading about these prices. This is reporting prices of $2.76 per dozen at a Wallmart near me. I happened to visit that store yesterday and I know damn well there were no eggs being sold at even remotely close to that low price. The Eggspensive site seems to be picking up on this dozen eggs, which happens to be not available at this or any other store in the region. They also are no…

this is not true whole foods in LA shows $3.29 for a dozen eggs https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/product/365-by-whole-foods-...

Indeed, it shows $3.29 for the Whole Foods in Pasadena. If that's the case, I guess I'd better start shopping for eggs there again despite having abandoned them for the poor quality food at the hot bar.

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by dumpHero2 »

jjeaff wrote: post #89
voakbasda wrote: post #64

We raise chickens on non-GMO feed and collect over a dozen eggs per day. The eggs available at Walmart are utter garbage compared to those raised locally on good feed and pasture. There's no comparison. Farm fresh egg yolks are the same orange color as the HN banner, while Walmart's eggs are pale imitations that were raised with copious antibiotics and literal shit in their feed. I would go so far as to say that thei…

Serious Eats did a taste test between home grown and store bought eggs. They found that if they added food coloring to the store bought eggs to make the color more orange like the home grown eggs, that taste testers were just as likely to prefer the store bought.

It's not just about the taste is it? I'd eat junk all day, if I only cared for the taste. Different color (without food coloring) signals different nutrients: https://www.justchartit.com/egg-yolk-color-chart/

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by mzs »

ravenstine wrote: post #22

I think there's something a bit misleading about these prices. This is reporting prices of $2.76 per dozen at a Wallmart near me. I happened to visit that store yesterday and I know damn well there were no eggs being sold at even remotely close to that low price. The Eggspensive site seems to be picking up on this dozen eggs, which happens to be not available at this or any other store in the region. They also are no…

Might be grade A twelve count, that's available at the said price here.I checked when I went to get cheese just now. Yours is grade AA.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Large-White-Eggs-12-C...

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by dumpHero2 »

steve_adams_86 wrote: post #162
93po wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I started buying the really expensive pasture raised chicken eggs for ethical reasons and can't go back to normal eggs anymore. They taste so much better. I'm sure yours are even better.

Though the ethical choice is better in your case, I came to realize that chickens (as they exist for agriculture) are kind of strange abominations of what they came from, and they really do live bizarre lives of eating and pumping out eggs. As soon as they're spent they get turned into dog food or similar. Ethically it's better if they aren't trucked around and crammed in cages, but the end result is still servitude…

You're comparing a good life with bad death.
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