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Re: Eggs US – Price – Chart

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Post by oaththrowaway »

theonething wrote: post #243
oaththrowaway wrote: post #188

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I have lost 2 flocks of chickens to a combination of raccoons, foxes, and skunks. Interestingly enough none of those could kill my turkeys - they are big enough to fight them off I guess. They don't lay as many eggs though. It is a lot of work, but after my last group was killed off 2 months I have not impressed by store eggs, so I'm planning on re-enforcing my coop so I can get another group of them soon.

> I have not impressed by store eggs Curious to know what differences do you discern between store and fresh eggs? Not doubting you, just curious to know.

During the summer I was getting ~9-10 eggs a day, and we probably averaged eating 6 a day - so besides the size and taste, a big thing is that unwashed eggs last a long time.

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Post by nnurmanov »

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.

I should have invested in eggs and bitcoins

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Post by riffraff »

toast0 wrote: post #325
ge96 wrote: post #271

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I think the most brutal thing is when the male chicks are immediately sent into a shredder damn. Out of sight out of mind That's where I can be a proponent of lab-grown meat without consciousness

Sure, it's brutal; but roosters don't get along. You would have to have a huge amount of space to raise all the males. For mammals, you can castrate the males and raise them for meat, but that's not feasable for birds.

> For mammals, you can castrate the males and raise them for meat, but that's not feasable for birds.

capons? We've been doing it for millennia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capon

EDIT: possibly you meant non-feasible since it's too expensive anyway, which it probably is.

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Post by taeric »

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 the kind of advice that can work for anyone, but can't work for everyone. Scale kills all things.

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Post by xboxnolifes »

taeric wrote: post #494
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 the kind of advice that can work for anyone, but can't work for everyone. Scale kills all things.

Not necessarily. Supporting local is the opposite of supporting scale, it's supporting decentralization. A single local provider might not be able to sustain all local demand, but there need not be only 1 local provider.

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Post by blast »

aj_icracked wrote: post #294
afavour wrote: post #84

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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.

Totally agree with this. After selling my last company (iCracked W12) I had been playing around with the idea of how to build the world's largest decentralized food production network - think millions of people leveraging their backyards to produce, share, and sell protein and vegetables. I've always wanted to build a company that blends smart home / AI technology with backyard agriculture and we decided to start wit…

You just want to work on things that crack easily.

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Post by wholinator2 »

WillPostForFood wrote: post #386
llamaimperative wrote: post #41

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The internal incoherence is a feature of a cult, not a bug! The more deliberately twisted shit they can make you believe, the more dependent your entire cognitive architecture is on them.

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Well cult this, cult that. What i care about is the wellbeing of the citizens. Who is being helped by erasing "trans gender idealogy nonsense"? Give me specifics about how certain people are being tangibly helped. Otherwise it's just more idealogy. It reminds me about how removing abortion rights was about "freedom of religion", who's freedom and what religion? I need examples of actual tangible assistance that has been gained by this. As of current it just sounds like certain people are mad that other people exist.

We can talk about the sports issue, the bathroom issue etc. But how many of us have had said issues? How often do these issues occur? Is the resolution in favor of the status quo actually better on the whole if it costs the personal expression of say 10,000 people? 100,000? How many people should be told what to wear and which doctor to see before you are satisfied to have squashed the "idealogy"?

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Post by wholinator2 »

rcpt wrote: post #358
llamaimperative wrote: post #268

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Because why would you say that? You would say "we're going to build more housing."

People say that about eggs.

Eggs are not treated as the most important investment of your life, the value of which you hedge the entire rest of your life against, and which is expected to increase in value to support an growing rather than shrinking lifestyle. Eggs are nothing like houses economically

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Post by myvoiceismypass »

chneu wrote: post #311
zie wrote: post #168

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I've only ever tried one brand. It's the only brand my local grocery store carries. It's a yellow carton with black writing, if that helps. I'm too lazy to go walk into the kitchen at the moment though.

Just Egg! Is the brand. It's really simple and easy to make at home too. It's just mung beans and black salt blended very well. You can bulk order yellow mung beans for super cheap.

The book "Making Vegan Meat" by Mark Thompson has a great recipe for this (amongst other things). It was kinda wild how easy it was to make well.

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Post by taeric »

xboxnolifes wrote: post #495
taeric wrote: post #494

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This is the kind of advice that can work for anyone, but can't work for everyone. Scale kills all things.

Not necessarily. Supporting local is the opposite of supporting scale, it's supporting decentralization. A single local provider might not be able to sustain all local demand, but there need not be only 1 local provider.

Somewhat exactly? Supporting local is largely the opposite of supporting scale.

Unless you have the idea that local farms can make up all of the sales that are done, then you are arguing for a practice that will result in a lower supply of goods. With a lower supply, you expect prices to rise until the demand adjusts down to a lower value, as well. No?

Hence, this is great advice for anyone to try. But if everyone does it, things get more expensive as you lose out on the very advantages that led to the "at scale" solutions in the first place.

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