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Post by UltraSane »

thuanao wrote: post #471
davidw wrote: post #171

I've been fiddling around with the Albertsons API for fun. It's kind of neat to see a whole year's worth of purchases in nicely formatted JSON. I have half an idea to create something like a personal inflation tracker, but I'm still thinking about it. It's entirely possible that these goons will start fiddling with official statistics around things like unemployment and inflation to tell us that inflation is not actu…

You may be interested to know MIT did a project called ["The Billion Prices Project"]( https://thebillionpricesproject.com ) to scrape the web and calculate CPI. Sorry to all the tinfoil hats, it closely matched official CPI.

It will be interesting if that is the case by this time in 2026,2027, and 2028

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Post by whalesalad »

vlan0 wrote: post #99
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.

Yes. Vital Farm eggs. Been $8 a dozen for a long time. No change in price. What we're seeing are the consequences of factory farming and not treating animals like the living beings they are.

yep. been a long time coming. it's unfortunate that when it favors them this is a talking point for the maga folks... but when it hurts them they are nowhere to be found.

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Post by whalesalad »

likeabatterycar wrote: post #396
Digit-Al wrote: post #327

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Wow! That's crazy. Here in the UK, the most expensive eggs in my local supermarket - which are Clarence Court Burdord Brown eggs - are only the equivalent of $5.08 per dozen. Those are the posh, expensive, eggs that only those with a bit of extra cash in their pocket, and a desire to eat more healthily, would buy.

I love how British eggs have deep, amber yolks. Are they force-feeding the hens Earl Grey?

a lot of farmers feed them marigold and other color enhancers to try and boost the color - because it is also a sign of the hen having a good diet

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Post by soerxpso »

dan-robertson wrote: post #462
autoexec wrote: post #397

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It's just greed. A couple years ago Cal-Maine Foods, whose birds were never infected at all, raised their prices anyway and their profits went up 718% https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/business/egg-profits-cal-main...

Why is it that egg producer greed/generosity matches well with the times when there is an egg supply shortage/surfeit?

Because to certain people, when a company lowers prices to compete because of an increase in supply, it's the competitive free market doing its things (not generosity), but when they increase prices because of a decrease in supply, it's greed.

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Post by monetus »

whalesalad wrote: post #577
monetus wrote: post #576

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A lot of local eggs here will have slightly orange yolks and my family just won't do it, not even in cornbread.

the orange yolks are usually a sign of better hen health... the irony of this. they taste a lot better, too.

Sad, for sure.

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Post by tptacek »

idlewords wrote: post #146
_tariky wrote: post #45

Perfect 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.

I'm married to someone who grew up on a chicken farm, have never so much as threatened to own a chicken, and still hear the litany of how awful chickens are at least a couple times a year. They're apparently really, really nasty animals.

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Post by tptacek »

autoexec wrote: post #485
dan-robertson wrote: post #462

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Why is it that egg producer greed/generosity matches well with the times when there is an egg supply shortage/surfeit?

it doesn't. The largest egg producer in the nation had no infected birds. There was no shortage. The companies just conspired to restrict supply so that they could gouge consumers and stuff their pockets. They were ordered to pay millions in fines because of it ( https://www.cbsnews.com/news/egg-suppliers-ordered-to-pay-17... ) They successfully tricked you into thinking that their prices are set by supply and demand…

You can just pull this up in FRED and match the spikes to HPAI outbreaks. People aren't making this up. If it's a spurious correlation, it's a really weird and powerful one.

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Post by explorigin »

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…

> I had been playing around with the idea of how to build the world's largest decentralized food production network

Years ago I worked on Farmforce that is basically this. In America we have centralized agriculture. Over the ocean, small-holder farmers in Africa provide lots of food to lots of markets. Keeping track of all of these farms, their herbicide and pesticide usage and weather-based yield projections is already a solved problem.

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