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Post by rcpt »

llamaimperative wrote: post #183
rcpt wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Prices aren't high on anything except for housing. No politician, either past present or future, will ever run on a platform of reducing housing prices.

Here are several specific proposals to do just that: https://nlihc.org/resource/harris-campaign-releases-plans-lo... Not a fan of credits to buyers (just inflates prices further) but I'm a big fan of credits to developers, streamlining permitting, and making some federal land available for development. Regardless of whether you think these are good policies or an effective platform, it is patently false to say no one…

Those are all great policies. And yes credits to buyers is pretty stupid.

But this is still a far cry from "vote for me and your home value will go down".

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Post by niceice »

zie wrote: post #104

Fake/Vegetarian eggs are priced the same here, so I made the switch and am only using fake eggs now for most of my cooking.

Did you find some that aren't filled with terrible oils and other bad-for-you ingredients? I haven't in my area yet.

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

SG- wrote: post #162

eggs in Canada are still $4CAD/dozen which is $2.80 USD. Canadian egg producers have smaller and spread out farms preventing disease spread along with better supply issues overall.

> Canadian egg producers have smaller and spread out farms preventing disease spread

Canadian and Mexican egg producers vaccinate their chickens [1].

This isn’t a story about industrial farming. It’s about animal vaccine requirements and trade protectionism banning Canadian and Mexican eggs from the American supply chain.

[1] https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-case-for-vaccinating-chicke...

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Post by OnionBlender »

villedespommes wrote: post #75
latchkey wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I'm in NorthCal, they usually have some supply in the first few hours of opening

Same in SouthCal. Employees said to come in the morning. An hour after opening they still had lots. Although there is a 2 cartons per household limit.

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Post by sonar_un »

dastbe wrote: post #178
whimsicalism wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

arent eggs already vegetarian

Eggs are definitely a grey area for vegetarians, to the point where vegetarians will describe ovo-lacto-vegetarians where they are ok with eggs (and animal milk) whereas others aren't.

I've been vegan for over 15 years, but even when I was vegetarian, I never really considered eggs to be vegetarian. Though some people do.

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Post by ge96 »

I rarely eat eggs so haven't been paying attention to it

I pretty much eat the same thing everyday: packaged peanuts (spicy ones), microwave single piece of batch baked chicken, frozen vegetables, brown rice, throw some terriyaki and soy suace on it boom, lazy meal. The peanuts are $0.69 each

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

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.

Canadian and Mexican egg prices haven’t budged because they vaccinate their chickens [1].

I’m not a fan of factory farming. But this isn’t a story about that. It’s a story about American (a) producers favouring cheap production by avoiding the cost of vaccination and (b) regulators favouring a policy of trade protectionism that keeps our neighbours’ cheap eggs off our grocery-store shelves.

[1] https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-case-for-vaccinating-chicke...

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Post by Scoundreller »

llm_nerd wrote: post #180
Scoundreller wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s great for the industrial food processor or restaurant chain that has a consistent demand/menu for eggs. But more meh for the consumer that’s more liquid/dynamic/reactive and can easily substitute ad hoc if something gets too expensive. It’s an industrial subsidy at more than one level.

Consumer demand for eggs and milk is extremely consistent over the short term, and when the price explodes people just...pay more. Hence all of the mad rushes and bizarre hoarding behaviour for this perishable product across the US. People are just spending more of their income on eggs, and bizarrely might be buying even more than normal. Over decades people change habits but for something acute they just suck it up.…

If we wanted to be strategic about food security (and deem supply management to be the way to do it), we’d supply manage primary food energy like beans and oats. Oh, and crop inputs like fertilizer.

Meat/eggs/dairy mostly destroys food energy. I guess you could argue the set pricing ensures food security for the animal.

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Post by mplanchard »

uticus wrote: post #119
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.

> they are now often cheaper...increase the resilience of the system as a whole cheaper and resilience are not proportional here. in fact, cheaper is proportional to efficient, which large producers are better at (apart from questions of healthiness, etc). i can't argue against resilience though, although that comes at a cost. speaking as a backyard-chicken-raiser of some years.

Sorry I’m not sure I follow your point. I’m saying that given the current situation with bird flu, the local eggs are often less expensive at my grocery store.

I’m not saying that they are less expensive to produce or that they will remain less expensive at the store during normal times. However, paying the extra costs during normal times means those farms stay in business, which means I can still get eggs for the same price right now as I can in normal times.

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Post by ttyprintk »

slothtrop wrote: post #210
ttyprintk wrote: post #195

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s a much stronger argument to say that anyone who sits down to do their household finances, blithely passes over their health insurance and worries about eggs must be buying thousands per month. In terms of GDP, health spending is 3x all agriculture.

Eggs are just signaled out as part of a whole. Inflation impacts many food products, as you well have noticed. Did you grocery bill go up since 2020, or did it not?

I’d wager prescription drug price inflation outpaced food. We know gas prices went down.

Finding out an adult is preoccupied about egg prices means finding out they’re extremely susceptible to propaganda, and not very close to household finances.

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