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I've been paying almost $11 for them.
Big city "tax"? Whole Foods and the local co-op out in WNY are both $8 a dozen.
I'm in a major metro area and Vital Farms eggs are still $7.99 from Kroger.
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#452Perfect time to build chicken coop. Also eggs price is increasing globally witch is not good.
I've noticed a fun split among people I know—those who grew up on a farm will move heaven and earth never to deal with chickens again, while people who grew up in cities or suburbs are really into the idea.
A big, big part of it is whether you had to do it as chores, and whether roosters were involved.
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I was wondering how I could provide evidence for you other than walking to the grocery and taking a picture, but I found at least one of our local farms that has their prices online: https://www.maplewindfarm.com/collections/retail-store -- I'd expect it would be quite easy for them to change their prices on their own storefront and in their farmstand, where I often buy their eggs. A dozen large eggs there right now…
In case anyone was curious, the Internet archive on my parent commenter's link shows large dozen egg prices of: $7.90 March 2024, $7.50 November 2023, $6.50 February 2023.
Oh good thinking! So in line with the sibling commenter, they’ve gone up some, but not a crazy amount, with most of that increase happening prior to the outbreak. And still cheaper than Vital Farms prices mentioned by others elsewhere in the thread.
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Did you find some that aren't filled with terrible oils and other bad-for-you ingredients? I haven't in my area yet.
Just fyi the whole "vegan foods are full of toxins and chemicals" is mostly nonsense pushed by the dairy and beef industries. They've spent a lot of money paying fitness, alt-right, and trad-wife influencers to push nonsense about vegan foods. The one I love is the "there will be mass famine" if everyone goes vegan narrative that meat-heavy eaters like to talk about.
Just fyi fake eggs and fake meat and fake butter are highly processed and include bad ingredients like other highly processed food.
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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?
> be built
The passive voice is disingenuous. Do you buy local farm products? You vote with your wallet. Make your choice, like everyone else.
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#456Get your own chickens.
No. I use like 3 eggs a week. Not worth the effort.
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That makes a lot of sense, because I lookup up how we handle it in Denmark and it's the same, destroy the entire flock if a farm is infected. It's just it's not millions, it's 6000, 40.000, 20.000 chickens per farm, not a million. Weird that the size of the farms aren't being regulated if you know from other countries that it makes containment easier.
But the population is about 57x smaller. So 17.5k chickens would be equivalent in terms of impact.
Unless you segment up your chickens and spread them out, so one farmer may have a million chickens, but spread out on 40 locations. The problem is that you need to kill ALL of your chickens in just a few is sick and having a million chickens in a single location will pretty ensure that you have to constantly kill of all your chickens and replace them.
But there's probably more going on that just sick chickens being killed of.
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#459If you want to be frugal with egg use, Chia seeds work great as an egg substitute in cookies (and other things.)
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I'm not sure in what sense you mean risk is a commodity, and why it's a problem. I'm also unsure what changed to make it so now, as opposed to having ever been so. Those who actually took risk into account and planned accordingly have profited wonderfully. Those who did not take risks into account lost their bet. Eggs are priced higher for some, but are pretty much available everywhere still, and have not dipped belo…
I think the assumption they're making is that we want to guarantee a certain reliability of food, and that even if we have perfect insurance that pays out when there isn't enough food, we just have money, and no food. That's a theoretical problem that could occur, but is extremely unlikely. The worst we'll see is what we have now (eggs are spendy) or a certain type of food disappearing for awhile (tomatoes one year w…
Here's an idea. Let's get a large proportion of our calories from inefficient animal sources. Then if there is a widespread crop failure we can eat the breeding stock and then the animal feed.
That's generally what happens in Africa. It doesn't work as well in North America because consumers here are too rich to switch to barley and oats when wheat is expensive.