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Re: Eggs US – Price – Chart

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

jghn wrote: post #278
afavour wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To my mind there's no question that it's swung too far. But it's very easy for me to live in the country and say "oh I get all my fresh produce from the local farm!" when there are cities of millions of people that need feeding too. Scaling while retaining resiliency is not easy.

I live in a city and buy most of my fresh produce, meat, and dairy from local farms.

Cool, but that's not an option for many people; how long does it take you to get there, and what transportation do you have available to you?

Re: Eggs US – Price – Chart

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Post by Cthulhu_ »

ivanjermakov wrote: post #691
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…

After reading that, I'm not only not want to build a coop, I don't want to consume eggs anymore lol. I guess I'm too "animal loving people".

This is the harsh reality that a lot of people that have gotten used to the convenience store aren't ready for, but also we're in a slow revolution where people are becoming more conscious of the humane cost of animal products and are switching diets or changing their purchasing behaviour.

Definite difference between "city people" and rural people though. We had cousins stay with us for a week or so the one time, granted they were a little younger, but they didn't realize milk comes from a cow. So of course we took them to the local farm we got our milk from so they could see the cows up close.

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Post by prawn »

snakeyjake wrote: post #713
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…

>Beside i don't know what you do with chicken corpse in city, you aren't going to put it in recycling can. You do with it the same thing you do with a turkey carcass after thanksgiving: throw it in the trash. "City folk" throw away meat trimmings, spoiled meat, or other meat products in volumes greater than a single chicken carcass every day. Put it in a bag, put that bag in an another bag, and throw it away. It isn'…

If you're worried about a carcass stinking because you're too far from bin day, freeze the bag and then bin it the night before your refuse gets picked up.

Re: Eggs US – Price – Chart

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Post by prepend »

It’s funny seeing the forecast is for $9.67 in 12 months time. It reminds me how it’s so easy to project based purely on the numerical patterns and not including the external event that created the numbers.

Re: Eggs US – Price – Chart

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Post by notTooFarGone »

0xffff2 wrote: post #547
epistasis wrote: post #153

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The usage of the term "vegetarian" in the US is not consistent enough to come up with a precise definition, probably due to the mixture of so many cultures bringing their variation and translations. So it's always good to clarify on particular food items in my experience. Some will consider eggs part of a vegetarian diet, others will be practically offended at the ridiculousness of the idea.

Huh? I'm American and even used to work as a professional line cook. Vegetarian has only ever meant "no meat products" to me. Vegan means "no animal products of any kind", and anything else requires a more specific phrase like "I'm vegetarian, and also I don't eat eggs", or "I can't eat any dairy products at all", or whatever.

Yeah poeple are overcomplicating the shit out of that.

The times I have to explain people "It's just not meat" is through the roof.

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Post by batushka5 »

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?

Once we fed goose with carrot waste - the fat and skin was more orange than yellow!

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Post by batushka5 »

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…

In our setting predators do the job - hawks do lions' share (LoL) and foxes the rest. So agingn chicken does not happen. Although we had a rooster - a tiny one, which had incredible surival skills - was over 10 years, killed 2 bigger roosters himself, numerous unobedient hens, survived direct fox attack and dodged hell knows how many hawk strikes. Eventually went blind and had to part with his head out of mercy.

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Post by iancmceachern »

buran77 wrote: post #719
iancmceachern wrote: post #710

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Agreed. I've found, in my own life, that when I'm hyper focused on optimizing things for cost I often get far less "out" of things. I end up not eating my whole dinner because I don't like it. But if I let go a bit, things are actually in aggregate more financially efficient when I'm getting more of what I pay for, if that makes sense. It only works for people who are built this way though. Not hedonists.

That's a much bigger problem. People at the limit of survival financially - and there's a lot of them - may not have the luxury of any kind of financial education, or the leeway to experiment and take longer term aggregates and strategies. There is only now. It's expensive to be poor and this is why. It's not just hedonists, a chronically empty stomach changes the way you think and how far and wide you're seeing.

So you are telling me poor folks are poor and struggling?

As if this isn't known?

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Post by DiscourseFan »

ahoka wrote: post #714
DiscourseFan wrote: post #561

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We in fact do make most decisions in our lives based on finances, you're just not aware of most of them.

We do, but people are maximizing utility and not minimizing costs.

Its more than that, our whole social world is constructed by financial possibility. The very reason that you are able to go see a cool movie or try that new restaurant or take a vacation is because someone or some entity, usually a bank, has calculated the risk of the loan or investment into whichever enterprise you are requesting goods or services from. Which is to say that the element of that risk which is non-quantifiable is still articulated within the boundaries of a certain quantity.
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