I wonder why eggs are so expensive? (California, news, inflation)
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Most barns like chicken farms operate in unsafe conditions. If they don't care that chickens are crammed together why would they care about their conditions?
Here's a barn fire reported in 2020:
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The majority of barn fires are believed to have been caused by electrical issues or defective heating devices, according to an Animal Welfare Institute news release.
- tampabay.com
killing no less than 100,000 chickens and will no doubt drive the cost of eggs up even further than the current extortionate levels paid by ordinary consumers.
Did you get the individually wrapped dozen of organic free range eggs with certificate of authenticity and gift wrapping from Whole Foods?
No, he got the "humane certified" eggs, where the hens get to live happy, free-range lives in uncrowded nesting facilities, fed on non-GMO organic feed.
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I haven't seen this at all, we just got eggs at Costco Saturday, $6.79 for 24 large cage free, seems very reasonable. At Safeway the large are pricier at $3.99/dozen, though, and medium are $1.99. Still not enough cost to avoid eating eggs.
Some of you people are coo-coo. Sorry to tell you, but wether Biden had been in the office or it had been Trump, eggs would still be more expensive. The president doesn’t control the bird flu and how bad it is.
Is it too late to blame the Clintons or I guess you all have moved on to Biden.
A dozen at my local store is just under $5. We pay less as we buy in larger multi-dozen pallets from Costco. I live in a high cost of living area. So I'm not sure I see what everyone is claiming.
I certainly can understand that elimination of herds of chickens to stop the spread of a disease can certainly impact supply and demand. Depending on the location of supply, it can certainly have different impacts on different areas of the US considering things require fuel to transport.
At $5 bucks a dozen, it is still less than what people at the end of the Great Depression were paying. We whine a lot.... when milk got expensive and hard to find, we switched to powered milk just fine and moved on with our lives.
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