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Eggs store very well when refrigerated and are naturally optimal in terms of physical volume. Buy eggs in bulk and store them in a large mixing bowl or other round container in your refrigerator.
Perfect time to build chicken coop. Also eggs price is increasing globally witch is not good.
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.
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?
Lidl is maybe marginally cheaper, prices there have gone up maybe 20% in a year.
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I view it more as a "the campaign was run on egg prices too, and the president isn't lowering prices"
The snark predates the outcome of the election.
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It would be very uncharitable to extrapolate that to "the people joking about eggs don't care about working-class people". The people joking about it largely are affected by grocery store prices. That is, of course, not the point. The "culture war" has a lot of stupid things about it, but also real, unavoidable things that would be unrealistic to expect even level-headed people to ignore.
Edit: Perhaps a more straightforward example: I am personally affected by grocery prices. Some of my closest friends and family are impacted severely by grocery prices. If a wealthy person says to me, "egg prices don't matter", I'm going to say, "Fuck off, they matter." If another person says to me, "Vote for , he says he'll lower egg prices," I'm going to say, "because of the egg prices? are you crazy?", even though I think egg prices matter. Relativity matters to actual humans. Some percentage of people in poverty who are desperate enough will feel forced to take that trade-off, especially if they haven't seen the hatefulness (or if they share it, but that's moot), but that doesn't mean the people making jokes about the egg price promise don't care about those people. That's not how humans work.
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I view it more as a "the campaign was run on egg prices too, and the president isn't lowering prices"
The snark predates the outcome of the election.
And that is, if they even have any eggs at the store. I've been to Wal-mart and Kroger when the entire section is empty with a sign saying there are egg supply issues.
It's also winter so my 'chicken farmer friends' are low on eggs, when it's cold the chickens don't lay nearly as many.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/12/18/m...
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.
cheaper and resilience are not proportional here. in fact, cheaper is proportional to efficient, which large producers are better at (apart from questions of healthiness, etc). i can't argue against resilience though, although that comes at a cost. speaking as a backyard-chicken-raiser of some years.
Perfect time to build chicken coop. Also eggs price is increasing globally witch is not good.
Just keeping predators out alone is an ongoing effort, weather events damaging it, then the smell/near constant cleaning, sick chickens/vaccinations/health checks, and you better figure who is doing all of this if you ever want a vacation or are sick yourself.
If you're a full time farmer, this is just your normal day, and a personal chicken coop isn't even a blip. But people with no farming/livestock experience don't even have an idea of what they're signing up for. I've known two different people that didn't last two years and were out thousands.
And when the price of eggs go back down, taking it out is also work.
PS - Check local zoning/rules; for example some have size/chicken limits or require it to be XYZ feet from the property line (due to smell/noise).