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Re: Eggspensive

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Post by orbital-decay »

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…

Isn't yolk color mostly related to the amount of carotenoids in it? I regularly see yolks of all colors in grocery store eggs, and they don't taste any different.

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Post by opportune »

neoncontrails wrote: post #185
pishpash wrote: post #138

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Depends on where you are. Shows "Currently unavailable." for me. Also, +$9.95 for delivery. Who knows if Amazon is willing to deliver to you because of that and empty the store shelves instead? So again, unless you see them with your eyeballs or get them at $3.79 all in in your hands, I am not sure what this means.

I was every bit as skeptical (and agree there's nothing particularly meaningful about a bargain on a product that's unavailable), half expecting the available eggs to cost $6-7 or more as they do just about everywhere I shop in California. (Which is not at high-end markets like Whole Foods, either — we're talking places like Grocery Outlet, Smart 'n Final, etc., that are just barely a step up from a 99¢ store.) On th…

Amazon Fresh heavily utilizes dynamic pricing, so that price is subject to change at any time. You can definitely get good deals there though. I once got like 10 16oz containers of deli meat there for just $2/each

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Post by 93po »

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

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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…

I am fine with a chicken living in a servitude that involves walking around in nature, getting fed as much as they want, having shelter and warmth at night, having plenty of social interactions, having human caretakers watching them every day, and getting a quick painless death after a few years.

I agree, ideally we wouldn't kill animals for the convenience and satisfaction of our diet. However, I fully recognize the selfishness and lack of empathy I am demonstrating. I think the limited amount of energy and effort I have in my life is much better placed on things I care about more than a chicken getting killed after a few years when its natural life span would be closer to 10 or 20 years. Said in another way, I think my time spent thinking about other endeavors in my life is more valuable than another 7-17 years of several chickens' life.

If I believed chickens had a greater sense of sentience, self awareness, and experienced life much at all beyond mindless eating and shitting, I wouldn't eat them. This is why I don't eat beef/pork/mammals.

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Post by opportune »

zactato wrote: post #268

I mostly buy my eggs from local farms at the farmers market for ~$10. I'm in the Bay area so nothing is cheap. Price have gone up lately as many of the farmers have had to cull based on bird flu. This is a bit more than I'd like to pay, but its not going to break the bank. I'm happy to have some eggs that taste good and I know come from birds that aren't tortured. Its odd to me that people are totally willing to spen…

If you’re buying 1dozen eggs per week (totally normal for many people), going from $2/dozen to $6/dozen is $200 a year you just lost on just one staple

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by opportune »

algoatecorn wrote: post #98
zeroonetwothree wrote: post #19

With the obsession over egg prices you’d think everyone is eating two dozen per day or something.

Yea seriously. The price increase is inconvenient, but hardly relevant in terms of calories/$. I eat 5-6 eggs each morning with some potatoes (my blood work is great btw, so take it easy armchair dietitians). Dietary cholesterol isn't what most people think. I digress. But that means my at-home breakfast went from: (5 eggs * $0.2) + (1 red potato * $0.20) = $1.20 to (5 eggs * $0.5) + (1 red potato * $0.20 = $2.70 I'l…

You’re spending $500/year more on breakfast. That’s nothing to sneeze at, especially for people on tight budgets

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Post by kortilla »

flyingcircus3 wrote: post #114
NDizzle wrote: post #80

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I wish I could go back in time about 40 years, where I had the same faith in government that you have currently. (I'm age 43 at the moment)

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You just described the liberal feedback loop when there is a Republican President or congress majority.

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by kortilla »

busterarm wrote: post #247
tempsy wrote: post #171

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Ok sure but eggs are still $3 something at whole foods

Whole Foods is a very large grocer with contractual obligations to buy a certain quantity of eggs. They also have declining foot traffic and price-sensitive customers. At the moment, eggs are probably a loss-leader for them and they're encouraged to still move on volume. If you look at the data in this app as a whole, the stores with the highest egg prices are small chains with low buying-power.

Whole Foods does not have price sensitive customers.

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Post by tomcam »

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

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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…

Yes. An official declaration from that person’s mouth is required because there’s a very good chance you have no idea what’s in their heart, nor how they view themselves.

Jimmy Dore is leans left but criticizes them when he sees fit. Tucker Carlson leans right but criticizes them when he sees fit. Both get completely mischaracterized by ignoramuses on both sides.

It is much better IMHO simply to comment on something someone has said directly, without trying to apply labels you imagine to be true.

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by tomcam »

ravenstine wrote: post #213
gnulinux wrote: post #199

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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…

Same

Re: Eggspensive

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Post by Red_Leaves_Flyy »

moremetadata wrote: post #176
rhacker wrote: post #57

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I bet the government's inflation tracker is also connected to walmart links. No wonder the gov things we're at negative inflation.

Major employers can manipulate govt's in lots of ways like laying off staff to push up the unemployment figures, so if you get a Govt which wants to raise standards for the populations, major employers can make that difficult. The prime objective of a business is to make profit, everything else is secondary.

>The prime objective of a business is to make profit, everything else is secondary.

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