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Re: Eggs US – Price – Chart

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Post by taeric »

xboxnolifes wrote: post #780
taeric wrote: post #500

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Somewhat exactly? Supporting local is largely the opposite of supporting scale. Unless you have the idea that local farms can make up all of the sales that are done, then you are arguing for a practice that will result in a lower supply of goods. With a lower supply, you expect prices to rise until the demand adjusts down to a lower value, as well. No? Hence, this is great advice for anyone to try. But if everyone do…

Decentralization doesn't necessarily imply lower supply of goods, but it does almost certainly result in higher cost of goods (outside of compared to monopolies). That's the cost of market resilience: higher average cost for lower variance over time. Higher cost of goods may result in lower demand and then lower supply, but the causal order is the opposite direction from assuming decentralization means lower supply.

Fair, I was sloppy there. My assertion is better stated that it will be a different supply curve with higher unit costs. Which should be expected to have a different intercept with demand on where you expect things to even out.

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Post by gadders »

arresin wrote: post #799
gadders wrote: post #798

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I think I can afford the lifetime cost. Some of our hens are rescued battery hens as well so I'll take the financial hit for the good karma.

Thanks for this. Appreciate counterbalancing anecdotes of egg farming without butchering.

In the UK, a big sack of feed for chickens costs around £12, and that will feed 15 chickens for a week (roughly). So I could be wasting 80p/week per unproductive chicken.

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Post by slothtrop »

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF wrote: post #330
slothtrop wrote: post #92

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> It was an obvious lie It wasn't obvious to the voters. And at the risk of repeating myself, calling people stupid is not effective. > it's hard to see how you interpreted it that way. Try in good faith. > Literally no one is saying that. "but egg prices!!!". They might as well be.

> calling people stupid is not effective Nobody is disagreeing with this and I can see only a single [flagged] [dead] comment which actually does this.

Obviously since I brought up the topic, I'm not referring to behavior in the thread I had just then created.

> Nobody is disagreeing with this

Perhaps, but they obtusely cling on to the idea that there's no possible way that snark couldn't be well interpreted.

Re: Eggs US – Price – Chart

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Post by stevenwoo »

mcv wrote: post #755
stevenwoo wrote: post #580

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Bird flu in the US has spread to wild animals and other species of wild and domesticated animals so it is very widespread, also there is a vaccine but poultry farms refuse to use it because of cost and it would make the meat/eggs not suitable for export, poultry producers have resorted to making their poultry farms as clean as possible, washing trucks that come onto property, making employees wash and wear protective…

We've also had bird flu in NL some years ago, but I don't think it was anywhere near that dramatic. I do vaguely recall that it was mostly an issue for free range chickens, because they go outside and can get infected by wild birds shitting from above. I'd expect indoor chickens to be less vulnerable, though I do recall similar measures to prevent humans from spreading it. I think there have been rules that free rang…

One thing someone else posted is that poultry farms are 1000 to 10000 times bigger in just number of poultry per facility in the USA, some news report speculation this issue is going to force USA poultry farms to vaccinate - this is already done in Mexico and much of EU including NL, but vaccination has been politicized in the USA and it would cut into profits sans bird flu and corporations run the show here. We know vaccination works because the countries that adapted it stopped it from infecting their farm stock.

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Post by nsbk »

hattmall wrote: post #738
nsbk wrote: post #715

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Throwing away the core is throwing away both food and the most beneficial part of the apple for your gut. Of the ~100 million bacteria in an apple, the core and seeds contain around 60%, while the pulp only contains around 20%, the skin 10%, the stem 10%. Numbers are from the top of my head, they could be off

Are you saying you eat Apple Cores?

Yes, if you eat it bottom up instead of around, there is practically no core. Also much cleaner, and you just throw the stem away plus the benefit of ingesting all the good bacteria

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Post by myroon5 »

rurp wrote: post #777
picture wrote: post #775

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I think your sentiment encapsulates the hypocrisy of modern people where the systems have developed over thousands of years to further and further insulate us from all the less pretty aspects of life, to a point where we largely forget the fact that we shit and kill things for food and greed. Our meat comes pre-portioned on a polystyrene tray and wrapped under cellophane. Just abstract blocks of yummy protein. We als…

Well said. I'll just add that even vegetarianism gets idealized as well. The farmers growing those crops do far worse things than humanely killing a chicken to vast amounts of wildlife that they perceive as pests.

Vegetarianism also reduces crop farming since most crops aren't directly eaten by humans (especially in richer countries):

https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets

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Post by Sokron »

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.

Ballsack

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Post by meiraleal »

throwaway5752 wrote: post #664
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…

I submitted this. Egg prices became a political trope during the election, and were summarily forgotten afterward. Eggs are skyrocketing now and it is not a front page story. The reason they are skyrocketing, out of control H5N1 contagion in cattle and poultry operations, is not a front page story. There seems to be very little being done about food cost or yet another widely-predicted-by-epidemiologists emergent glo…

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Post by mbs159 »

Yajirobe wrote: post #750
cco wrote: post #653

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Having slaughtered my fair share of chickens on a relatively small but not back yard operation, there is a much easier way! Buy a t-post (any 3-5 foot rigid metal pole will do but a t-post has perfect geometry). Next, you'll grab your chicken, lay her down on her back or stomach [1], once she has settled down you're going to lay the t-post gently across her spine just a bit behind her skull. Now place your feet on ei…

This is all so brutal. I can’t believe you people are discussing such things so nonchalantly

Wait till you see how they do it in slaughterhouses, you'll think this guy is a saint

Re: Eggs US – Price – Chart

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Post by mbs159 »

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".

It's a good idea to see where your meat, milk and eggs come from. If you can't stomach it, then why put it in your stomach?
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