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Post by jillyboel »

slothtrop wrote: post #92
thinkingtoilet wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not it at all and it's hard to see how you interpreted it that way. Trump promised to bring down egg prices and grocery prices on day one. It was an obvious lie and now that it has been proven it was a lie it's important to let people know the current president lied to them flagrantly. >"I don't care that working people find things expensive" Literally no one is saying that.

> It was an obvious lie It wasn't obvious to the voters. And at the risk of repeating myself, calling people stupid is not effective. > it's hard to see how you interpreted it that way. Try in good faith. > Literally no one is saying that. "but egg prices!!!". They might as well be.

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Post by latchkey »

daedrdev wrote: post #67
latchkey wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm in CA and TJ's was empty for months not too long ago.

Im oretty sure thats TJs fault, they regularly run out of eggs for years now if you go at the wrong time

Sounds like a combo of ABF and this...

"Trader Joe's is transitioning to carry only cage-free eggs by 2025."

https://www.allrecipes.com/trader-joes-egg-shortage-2024-874...

I was more reacting to the "first time" anecdotal evidence.

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Post by RyanOD »

garyfirestorm wrote: post #43
perfmode wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve always bought the most expensive pasture raised free range cage free eggs at Whole Foods. If I recall they used to be around $10 per dozen. Been a while. Anyone know Is this still the case?

its 3-4$ at trader joes - still 8ish in WholeFoods in Michigan

I've definitely noticed the pricing for eggs at our neighborhood Trader Joes staying constant while the pricing at our neighborhood Safeway has doubled.

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Post by jeffbee »

_tariky wrote: post #45

Perfect time to build chicken coop. Also eggs price is increasing globally witch is not good.

If your goal is to increase human-bird contact and contact between bird species during a bird flu pandemic, then sure. Perfect time!

The California Dept. of Food and Agriculture has numerous alerts on their site regarding H5N1 spreading in non-commercial backyard flocks.

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Post by Scoundreller »

llm_nerd wrote: post #48

Here in Ontario I'm buying eggs for $2.99 / dozen, or about $2.10 USD. This isn't a boast or schadenfreude, but is an observation that the protected, stable industry (supply management), which itself yields smaller, less industrialized operations means that while bird flu is a problem, it's hitting smaller clusters rather than gigantic mega operations where gigantic numbers of birds get culled. So while our eggs are…

It’s great for the industrial food processor or restaurant chain that has a consistent demand/menu for eggs.

But more meh for the consumer that’s more liquid/dynamic/reactive and can easily substitute ad hoc if something gets too expensive.

It’s an industrial subsidy at more than one level.

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Post by joecool1029 »

I live in NJ on some bird migration routes, the area I'm in has nesting snow geese right now and they are infected, birds dead, dying, and struggling to fly, some of the parks have been closed to the public due to concern of it skipping to humans. There's at least one large egg farm only around a 5 minute drive from this flock (one of ISE's). I have no idea if it skipped in there but given the short distance it's very possible.

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Post by colonial »

Yup, bird flu moment. I'm very glad my family put up a chicken coop in our backyard years ago; we get a ~carton a day, and they last forever even outside the fridge due to the natural "sealant" still being intact.

Hopefully store prices will come down as the year goes on and flocks bounce back.

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Post by SketchySeaBeast »

afavour wrote: post #84
mplanchard wrote: post #18

Fresh, local eggs have remained around the same price here. While more expensive than eggs from large producers in normal times, they are now often cheaper. This is a great reminder of how important it is to support local farmers and small operations, which increase the resilience of the system as a whole.

This is also a great defense against something like bird flu. When you centralize operations a disease can spread through a population like wildfire. When it's a number of smaller, separate operations the impact is lessened.

Really raises the question - should vital infrastructure, like food production, be built in an attempt to maximize profit or resiliency? Have things swung too far in one direction?
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