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What's going on with eggs in the US? The whole world had high inflation after Covid, so that's not US-specific, but eggs tripling in price? That is extreme. I don't think my (Dutch, free-range organic) eggs went up more than 25%.
Yeah, bird flu is really bad.
What is the executive branch of the government doing about H5N1 currently? I have not seen any press releases or statements about it. edit: I'm not being facetious, and don't welcome flippant replies. I'm genuinely interested, since I haven't seen any updates and have well-founded reasons to be skeptical this is getting the necessary attention.
Muzzling the CDC, gutting infectious disease research, and dismantling USAID (which does some disease work abroad).
Perfect time to build chicken coop. Also eggs price is increasing globally witch is not good.
I built a chicken coop, mostly as a hobby, and the eggs were a bonus. the 1,000 in materials for the structure and 25 bucks a month in food and bedding make that amortization table go out a couple of decades before you see ROI. I joke that they are the most expensive organic eggs you can buy. ;)
10 years back, we were getting eggs at something like 25c/egg in feed costs. But we had a bunch of birds that only laid every 2 or 3 days, so they were no where near as efficient as a first year dedicated layer. OTOH, they all had names, we had most of the egg colors, and the bantam eggs were so cute. And the one hen that basically only laid double yolkers.
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.
Michigan here, this is has been made worse by a new law requiring all eggs to be 'cage-free'. I think I paid $9 for the cheap store-brand eggs (18) last week. 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…
Perfect time to build chicken coop. Also eggs price is increasing globally witch is not good.
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No, the snark is because it was a huge campaign item which didn't make any sense because: 1) The president doesn't have a magic dial to bring down prices, and 2) Trump loves tariffs which have inflationary effects no matter how you spin it So all the complaints about high prices was just for show since they don't actually care. EDIT: 3) Inflation was a global phenomenon and the U.S. was actually outperforming most co…
Trump's platform was bad, that does not make it reasonable to trivialize cost of living. Notwithstanding that Biden was punished for inflationary spending, all Trump had to do was lean on the perception that people "had it better" in his term. You don't need to lower prices if your wages go up, and notwithstanding that this lags, the perception has been that wages have not kept up. Obviously the intuition was that el…
No one is saying these people can't complain about high prices, but that we can't lie to ourselves about the solution. It was obvious to many that Trump would not fix this on day one and possibly make it worse. Now we're seeing the start of a potential trade war.
0: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/americans-wages-are...
What's going on with eggs in the US? The whole world had high inflation after Covid, so that's not US-specific, but eggs tripling in price? That is extreme. I don't think my (Dutch, free-range organic) eggs went up more than 25%.
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It became a meme/joke because of the contrast between the good part of Trump's image (promise of egg prices) and the bad part (extreme pettiness, violence, lawlessness, fascist-adjacent behavior, etc). Contrast is a big part of jokes. 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 sto…
I put it to you that the conservative opposition and bigots are very uncharitable at the outset, in interpretation of messaging from the other side. In this case they didn't have to do any work, it was literally said for them.
Don't forget that working people and moderates are the ones you need to convince. If people didn't change their votes, election outcomes would always be the same. Educated people tend to be more committed to a worldview (and overconfident), whether left or right. They are listening when you mock egg prices.
Perfect time to build chicken coop. Also eggs price is increasing globally witch is not good.
A chicken coop is a major time investment for most urban/residential owners. 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…