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"Prices have quadrupled": Inside the crazy spike in egg prices hitting supermarkets across the country
Not The Bee ^ | January 10, 2023 | Daniel Payne

Posted on 01/10/2023 10:57:58 AM PST by Red Badger

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To: CFW

“ People cannot take much more inflation and maintain their current lifestyle. Soon you will see stories on the increase of bankruptcy filings. People will not be able to both eat and pay their mortgage.”

That…and 10 times worse than that…is the only slim chance Americans have of uprooting the political system that gave them that.


61 posted on 01/10/2023 12:04:52 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (Make Orwell Fiction Again)
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To: alternatives?

“Unusual” is a diplomatic way to put it, I guess.


62 posted on 01/10/2023 12:12:02 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Rusty0604
Not that long ago.

Yeah, right? These aren’t 1960s prices. We’re talking a year or two ago.

63 posted on 01/10/2023 12:45:53 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: alternatives?

My buddy has 5 hens. The tore up his yard to the point you cant even really go back there. Messy creatures.


64 posted on 01/10/2023 1:05:28 PM PST by Jonny7797
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To: ncfool
Up next is mad cow, disease and swine flu. It’s time for Americans to be on the vegan diet.

It'll be something much more benign. "Sad Cow Sniffles."

"And while the FDA couldn't find any link of this illness to humans, authorities still carried out the destruction of 10 million head of cattle --just to be on the safe side."

65 posted on 01/10/2023 2:01:47 PM PST by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: Jonny7797
"Buy them at Costco, still cheap."

Not here. Eggs at any price are not available at Costco because of the Bird Flu. How is it that this virus is hitting egg producers all over the country--all at the same time?

66 posted on 01/10/2023 2:38:21 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: jonrick46

This has been going on for about a year. It’s just reached a tipping point at a time when egg use soared (Holiday baking uses a lot of eggs.)


67 posted on 01/10/2023 2:40:37 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: jonrick46

Egg production has been in decline since 2019. This year should see a definite increase.

http://www.egg-news.com/statistics.aspx


68 posted on 01/10/2023 2:51:36 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: jonrick46

I bought 72 eggs at Costco the other day. I paid $12.


69 posted on 01/10/2023 2:52:18 PM PST by Jonny7797
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To: Red Badger

I get my eggs from Amazon’s Fresh Market.

They always have a ton of eggs for $3.50, $4.39.


70 posted on 01/10/2023 2:54:47 PM PST by justme4now (Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it)
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To: justme4now

Never have to leave the house either!😄


71 posted on 01/10/2023 2:55:57 PM PST by justme4now (Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it)
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To: freedomlover

When I was a child we kept chickens and guineas. We used to refer to guineas as fox bait. They tended to be more feral and run off where predators got them.


72 posted on 01/10/2023 3:19:00 PM PST by Help!
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To: Jonny7797

I just found out, eggs are now available at Costco.


73 posted on 01/10/2023 3:56:59 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: Red Badger

All this turmoil has happened under obama and biden.


74 posted on 01/10/2023 4:00:07 PM PST by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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To: EEGator
I eat three a day so I'm pretty close to your two dozen.

Eggs are an essential part of my diet so I'll pay just about any price to get them. Currently I'm finding them at local farms for between $5 and $6 a dozen. The farm eggs, especially the ones that are unwashed, are much better in my opinion in terms of taste and nutrition.

75 posted on 01/10/2023 4:01:24 PM PST by SamAdams76 (4,777,271 | Truth Social | 87,821,414 | Twitter | Trump Followers)
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To: SamAdams76

I often get mine from the Amish.


76 posted on 01/10/2023 4:24:41 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Red Badger
Bird flu has hit Asia as well... one Japanese paper
reported that they had to cull 10 million chickens because of bird flu. https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14811037

Bird flu is spread via migrating birds. Usually chickens kept in chicken houses are safe, but the article states:

The ministry said in some cases, a sparrow or a rat infected with the virus entered the coop through a rip in the chicken wire or a hole in a wall.

In other cases, the ministry said farm did not take sufficient preventive measures, such as replacing and sanitizing farm workers’ clothes and boots.

Here in the Philippines, we are not on the path of migrating birds so we are usually free of bird flu, but there have been outbreaks thought to be due to smuggled in meat from China.

To make things worse there is a lot of African Swine flu among pigs in East Asia, and a shortage of onions.

And with the high price of fertilizer and diesel to run farm equipment, soon the price of rice will skyrocket: indeed, we are barely making a profit now.

77 posted on 01/10/2023 6:42:21 PM PST by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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...the price of rice will skyrocket:

If I didn't know any better, I'd say that sounds like it was intentional.... Bill Gates must be smiling............................

78 posted on 01/11/2023 5:45:14 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Nathan _in_Arkansas

You should see an ostrich egg. Talk about your massive egg omelet.


79 posted on 01/11/2023 5:51:38 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: webheart

+1


80 posted on 01/11/2023 5:54:21 AM PST by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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