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Post by greenie_beans »

likeabatterycar wrote: post #638
greenie_beans wrote: post #593

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> Literally the definition of "not local"

lol that's hilarious. you can keep arguing about the semantics of that while panicking about the factory farmed egg shortage. it won't bother me because i'll be feasting on food grown by farmers i know, all within a day's drive from me. if you are lucky then the regional distributors will pick up the slack thanks to the "not local" farms.

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Post by SparkyMcUnicorn »

kurthr wrote: post #633
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…

> My experience is that without at least one rooster the hens won't lay well

This is just not true. Hens will lay just as many eggs with or without a rooster. And a rooster doesn't do a whole lot to fend off predators, from my experience.

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Post by Retric »

bdangubic wrote: post #637
Retric wrote: post #627

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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

That’s over 20$/day per person. All 3 of you could literally eat exclusively fast food in most of the US on that budget.

You’re not just paying for food here. One possibility is you’re talking things you buy at the grocery store here, but laundry detergent is’t food.

So what’s the actual deal here.

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Post by mleo »

latchkey wrote: post #38
simple10 wrote: post #5

I live in CA and saw a massive jump in prices when the state ordered chickens to be euthanized due to bird flu. It was also the first time I saw grocery store shelves completely empty of eggs for days at a time. Prices for organic eggs have somewhat returned to pre-bird flu levels but the regular sales and discounts have stopped. Non-organic eggs are still significantly higher.

I'm in CA and TJ's was empty for months not too long ago.

Not sure what time you go to TJ's. In SoCal, I go nearly daily, a benefit of living 50ft from the store, and while stock is currently low, I have only seen it empty once. Again, it could be that when I go at lunchtime, they have the daily delivery available, but by the evening it is gone. Their prices for regular eggs remain <$4/dozen.

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Post by likeabatterycar »

greenie_beans wrote: post #641
likeabatterycar wrote: post #638

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

> Literally the definition of "not local" lol that's hilarious. you can keep arguing about the semantics of that while panicking about the factory farmed egg shortage. it won't bother me because i'll be feasting on food grown by farmers i know, all within a day's drive from me. if you are lucky then the regional distributors will pick up the slack thanks to the "not local" farms.

Most people with jobs and families etc. don't have a day per week nor gas money to spare to drive seven hours each way to go egg foraging. It's great you can manage this luxury but it's just not practical and a fairytale life for 99% of people. Not to mention many people in NYC don't own a car.

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Post by exceptione »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #639

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 eat…

It is finally some positive news. Before the election, inflation was down, but egg prices were up. So this was a big thing according to social media bots and algorithms.

Now prices have gone through the roof, but it is not a big thing anymore.

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Post by virtualwhys »

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.

$4 and change here for locally sourced eggs in San Diego, CA, at an organic food store no less.

Meanwhile, $9+ at commercial supermarket for bottom of the barrel factory produced eggs -- strange times...

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Post by HDThoreaun »

ryandrake wrote: post #433
bombcar wrote: post #410

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Smaller farmers usually want to make money to cover their costs, and if they weren't doing that, they're already in a huge pickle. As you mention, they'll impose limits (or perhaps offer "shiny brown eggs for $1 more") rather than piss off the customers, who 90% of the time have cheaper options already.

Are rising costs the reason for store-bought eggs' rising prices?

Yes but its because all their chickens keep dying because of the factory farm conditions that local farms might not have
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