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Posted on 05/01/2025 9:44:23 AM PDT by Vendome
Egg prices reached another record high last month. It now costs American shoppers an average of $6.23 for a dozen eggs — nearly a five-fold increase since 2020.
Yet while families have been squeezed by grocery sticker shock, agriculture corporations have been raking in record profits. Cal-Maine, the country’s largest egg producer, took in $509 million this quarter alone, tripling its profits from a year ago.
Gouging consumers is bad enough. But it gets worse: Cal-Maine and other ag companies were breaking the bank at the same time they were also quietly getting millions in taxpayer-funded relief payments from the federal government. Congress and the Trump administration must put a stop to this: No company that is getting corporate subsidies should be allowed to hike prices and extract windfall profits from American consumers.
over the last two years, some 115 million egg-laying chickens have been culled in response to avian flu outbreaks — a tragically large loss of animal life, but a relative drop in the bucket in the grand scheme of the country’s poultry industry. Even after this reduction in the country’s chicken supply, monthly egg production only dipped about 4 percent.
This relatively modest decrease in egg supply shouldn’t have led to the exorbitant prices confronting consumers at the supermarket.
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Nobody is getting gouged...The Hill lies for the democrat party. Egg prices are way down food prices are down. And the democrats are out enforce to tear down America.
President Trump needs to really focus here, this is a benchmark measurement for consumers.
Record-high inflation never happened.
The bird-flu never happened, and many millions of chickens being killed never happened.
Which means that, the Biden administration never happened.
Telling stories without the important facts, is always beneficial to the ones that want to distort the truth.
I can’t recall a single poultry kill off since Trump was sworn in. I also can’t recall any major food processing disaster since then either. When Biden was president, it seemed like almost weekly occurrences.
Am I the only one that thinks that 50-cents for an egg is cheap, healthy eats relative to other foods? Three eggs and you have yourself a good start to decent meal with about 200 calories. Add in a 50-cent potato, and you have a full energy-stocked meal that will keep your belly full until lunch. For $2.00 (plus cooking energy cost). OR am I coming off as a wealthy elitist?
Just paid under $2 a dozen for the first time in a long time, so I find gouging a strong claim
Some did occur in the early days of the administration. Left overs from Biden policies. It’s only been 100 days but my point is he needs to change the trajectory. This would calm a lot of fears. It’s mostly symbolic but important.
anybody using the word ‘gouging’ doesn’t understand free enterprise ... in other words a commie ...
Ah, no. Egg prices aren’t way down.
Our new Ag Sec was charged with getting prices down fast—and so she through money at it. Not at all surprising that that’s not efficient.
Also, have they stopped killing birds because of the bird flu?
Trump obviously cool with this. He made the choice to pay it to them.
Exactly .50 cents an egg. Big whoop.
Eggs are up because Biden killed all the chickens. As new chickens mature, egg prices will drop.
6.23 a dozen? Where? Hawaii maybe. 2.99 here in Ohio. Under Biden it was up to 7.00.
I’m paying 25C per egg, so no, 50c does not sound cheap.
Umm, as of April 28, the average price of a dozen eggs in the US was $3.25.
I am still paying the same amount as last year for chicken feed and still get the same amount of eggs, so where is the gouging???
Still over $4 at the Marana, AZ Walmart, about a week ago anyway. $4.99 at Safeway Monday, but they’re usually higher there than the other major grocers.
We’ve been eating a lot fewer eggs than usual the last few months.
And then there's the matters of central management of egg production, and of growing vaccines in the albumen of eggs.
/tin foil hat
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