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Post by mschuster91 »

afavour wrote: post #84
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.

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.

On top of that, large operations tend to be hell on earth from an animal welfare perspective. The air alone is toxic and hard to breathe because there's so much avian poop everywhere that is constantly decomposing.

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Post by fullstop »

afavour wrote: post #84
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.

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.

I highly doubt that the farmer down the street from me is testing for avian flu.

Their eggs are fantastic, though!

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Post by greenie_beans »

likeabatterycar wrote: post #348
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.

Ok, but, you can't feed 340M people with "fresh, local eggs". While it's nice you buy six eggs at a time from Joe Farmer off the back of his '72 Ford, but factory farms are an unfortunate necessity to feed everyone that isn't so privileged.

> you can't feed 340M people with "fresh, local eggs"

i think the opposite, i would like to hear a good argument why you can't.

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Post by arjie »

ars wrote: post #407
rsynnott wrote: post #331

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Once the egg has been refrigerated (which it will be in shipping and in the supermarket) breaking the cold chain is, at best, risky; you'll potentially get condensation which can lead to contamination.

I'm not just theorizing here, I've actually done it. Multiple times, as in, every day. I don't refrigerate my US eggs, I've been doing that for years, with zero problems.

This is so fascinating. I believe you, but I am one month from a newborn so I can't perform the experiment. It's like how for years on end I'd read explanations on Hacker News for why Japan's traffic lights were blue instead of green and I went there and they were identical to US lights. So I'm sceptical of these folk explanations that always go around. One day, years from now, I shall test it myself.

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Post by greenie_beans »

jl6 wrote: post #172
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.

Are small local farms able to keep producing as normal because the birds aren’t getting bird flu or because they’re not testing/killing them?

here is a recent news story about exactly this: https://www.mynbc5.com/article/vt-farm-takes-steps-to-preven...

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Post by crdrost »

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?

So hens don't usually have to be force-fed. Some of that color can come from having a diverse source of proteins--like the bugs and insects that pasture-raised hens get access to--but farmers "in the know" will also add paprika and marigold to the usual soy-and-grain supplemental feed, to try to encourage it to come out a bit more.

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Post by rafram »

abeppu wrote: post #482

Setting aside the recent price increase, I'm shocked that their data shows a price of 0.77 in May 2023. A dozen eggs for less than a dollar, and that was after the worst official inflation had already happened?

From the page:

> according to trading on a contract for difference (CFD) that tracks the benchmark market for this commodity

You aren't buying eggs on a commodities exchange, you're buying them at the grocery store. There's a lot of overhead between the eggs being sold wholesale as a commodity and the eggs making it to your front door in neat little cartons.

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Post by bena »

declan_roberts wrote: post #375
ars wrote: post #186

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The commercial eggs also last forever outside the fridge. That thing about the natural sealant is a widely believed myth. Source: I leave my commercial eggs outside the fridge, and they last with zero problems.

I don't think it's a myth compared to unwashed eggs. You should try leaving washed eggs out on the counter for 20+ days (incubation for a chicken) and see.

Are you implying that these eggs would incubate chicks? Or are you using the incubation time as a sort of natural timer? Like they would last that long if they were unwashed, but washed eggs wouldn't last even the incubation period.

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Post by PaulHoule »

llamaimperative wrote: post #276
PaulHoule wrote: post #217

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It's a mirror of the thoughtless language engineering of their opponents, it's like calling people "latinX" without asking them first.

A minor difference being that one is a bunch of bluehairs Twitterati and social science professors using a goofy word and the other is a systematic purge of scientific literature and government data... Minor difference though!

Actually I'd argue that left-wing language engineering contributed to right-wing lunatics getting in control. This poll says 56% of Hispanics in the US are uncomfortable with 'LatinX'

https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/ipoll/study/31120958/questio...

These are a swingy group that could go either way. This podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/will-tariffs-end-trump...

describes polls that make it clear that Americans think that Republicans care about the issues that matter to them and that Democrats don't. "Woke" talk contributes a lot to the latter.

The good news for them though is that now that they see Republicans in power talking crazy like this, Democrats will look more normal to people. But if people on the left muzzled their own fanatics years ago we'd have woken up in a different America.

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