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Re: Eggs US – Price – Chart

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Post by tptacek »

autoexec wrote: post #629
tptacek wrote: post #620

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Notice how that's not a story about price-fixing of a commodity but of a (delicious) intermediate industrial product destined for ultra-sophisticated buyers. There's no story about people price-fixing potatoes. Also notice how the prices don't move up and down with incidents of potato blight or whatever. Further: for this to be explanatory, you have to show why, after HPAI outbreaks subside... prices come back down .

> There's no story about people price-fixing potatoes. Like these people? https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/closed-settl... > for this to be explanatory, you have to show why, after HPAI outbreaks subside... prices come back down. It doesn't matter if prices sometimes go down, what matters is why. As it turns out, the answer to that is collusion. https://apnews.com/article/egg-producers-price-gouging-la…

They sued every major potato producer in the United States and got a $5.5MM settlement.

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Post by jacobr1 »

aj_icracked wrote: post #354
TylerE wrote: post #339

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Seems interesting a bit but surely the economics are rather brutal? Even a traditional coop has an ROI of years and years and years.

It's a good question - From what we've seen most suburban people that raise chickens don't do it to lower costs of eggs - they do it to have better control over the quality of food they eat, to teach their kids that you take care of the chickens, they take care of us. To eliminate food waste (avg family throws out 200+ lbs a year of food that can go to chickens, and because funnily enough most backyard farmers treat…

We've had good success with Black Soldier Flies[1] too. They compost pretty much anything - you can toss in meat/cheese and similar scraps not just veggies. And you get a very high quality protein to feed the chickens.

[1] https://www.hobbyfarms.com/black-soldier-flies-free-self-har...

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Post by kurthr »

aucisson_masque wrote: post #599

Lots of people suggesting to build chicken coop. i have one, sure it's not much work. 2 minutes every day to grab the egg and bring the food and water, but then every 3 year you got to take the hatchet, grab each chicken, cut right on the neck and then hang it with it's feet while it's bleeding out and flapping its wings. then there are the few occasion where you miss with the hatchet and it cuts half its neck, its h…

Yeah, you want some separation from the house to the coop. Granma just picked em up by the neck and cracked the whip. Did it two handed on holidays. She knew which were sick, old, or just not laying. The feet did keep going for a while, and granpa did have to cut the heads and feet off. Removing the feathers after par-boiling was our (kids) job. That sucked.

My experience is that without at least one rooster the hens won't lay well, you won't have chicks, and frankly the hens aren't safe from predators. But, nobody likes roosters, especially other roosters and neighbors. That's what kills chickens in the city for me.

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Post by scoofy »

Zanfa wrote: post #274
oceanplexian wrote: post #229

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Actually the inconvenient truth is that it's not. Free range birds are able to interact and spread the disease more easily than the caged birds which can be quarantined. At least in my location all the cage free inventory is totally wiped out.

The only thing caged birds do is interact with other birds. There’s a reason antibiotics are so widely used. It’s like a massive Petri dish.

I suspect that bird-human contact is as much a concern, if not more so than bird-bird contact.

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Post by mrguyorama »

llamaimperative wrote: post #553
PaulHoule wrote: post #550

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A serious treatment of that requires considering what the Democratic party actually is . Wintrobe's book [1] has an analysis of a tinpot dictator who wants to steal everything a country has but has to spend some resources on buying people off and some on repression so that he can get away with it. Bill Clinton made a similar maneuver around 'triangulation' that amounts to trying to share as little of the spoils to ma…

I’m not sure what all this is about. You have one party’s “extremism” which takes the form of bluehaired Twitterati saying stupid shit and, I guess, not getting sufficiently disowned by actual political leaders? On the other hand you have an ongoing ACTUAL ideological purge of our government’s personnel, records, budget, and data, complete with watchwords (like “women”) and loyalty tests.

It's always an absurd double standard.

A bunch of people said stupid shit on Tumbler, so I guess the republicans just had to go tear down all our institutions and grift every dime they can?

It's pathetic, but par for the course for the party that insists on "personal responsibility", yet blames Democrats for the deficit despite being empirically responsible for most of it.

"You had extremists" nope, none of those people screaming on tumbler were invited into the Party's cabinet.

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Post by PaulHoule »

llamaimperative wrote: post #625
PaulHoule wrote: post #619

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Sure. I spoke to my uncle about this when he was convalescing in a nursing home. We live in New York, neither of our votes counted. I voted for Harris, he voted for Trump. He did not see it as a black or white thing, he saw it as a comparison. He didn't see Harris as giving any reason why he should vote for her other than, maybe, she is a woman. The message that you shouldn't vote for Trump didn't resonate. Personall…

You're still talking about the election. I am not. I am talking about actual political actions being taken.

What are you going to do about it?

Winning the next election is the most realistic plan. Maybe not that hard in 2026 for Congress, we might win earlier than that since there are 3 special elections in the queue already and 6 per year on average. Flip 3 seats and the Republicans no longer control the House. The thinner the margin it is the more some lunatic who is offended by the idea of having a budget can throw sand in the gears.

Winning all the elections from 2025-2028 is the thing to be thinking about, and thinking about the loss in 2024 is key to that.

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Post by bdangubic »

Retric wrote: post #627
bdangubic wrote: post #612

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Now they are almost a rounding error comparatively. ballparking I’d need about low 7-figure after tax pay for my food budget to qualify as a rounding error…

Almost a round error comparatively doesn’t mean it’s 0.01%. People used to spend ~30% of their income on mass produced basic staple foods with very little meat they cooked at home. You can live like that on like 1$/day. Median household income is over 80k today so we are talking more than an older of magnitude price reduction. Get regular meal delivery etc and sure you can spend crazy money but it’s not really spendi…

family of 3, never ordered delivery in my life outside of pizza once in a blue moon and eating out no more than twice per month - food bill $1,900-ish / month

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Post by likeabatterycar »

greenie_beans wrote: post #593
wyre wrote: post #526

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Where can the NYC metro area get fresh, local eggs to feed the 19 million people that live there? This is an extreme example, but still applies to every other metro area too.

within 7 hours of NYC you have a ton of amazing farms that supply NYC. many farms in the hudson valley but you'd be surprised how many farms all the way to vermont and maine that distribute their fresh produce to the city. you also have a lot of rural space within a day drive of NYC. recently there was a massive flock of ducks that were culled at a farm in long island. all 19 million people don't eat eggs, but there…

> within 7 hours of NYC

Literally the definition of "not local"

> help supply the 19 million people of NYC with fresh eggs

This sounds like it could be one of Kramer's schemes on Seinfeld, where he's loaded his rusted-out jalopy with 5k eggs to bring into the city to sell for a profit, but somehow they end up all over the freeway and chaos ensues.

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

This is it? This the big meme of 2025? "Remember when eggs were expensive"?

Ukraine is at war, minorities are being oppressed at home, an economic tidal wave is about to hit us vis-a-vis Chinese imports, the economy is on the ropes, and big brother is literally banning the government from saying words like "sex" and "gender" - but, oh boy, can you believe the price of these eggs???

Is every person in this country eating thousands of eggs a week and I had no idea?

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