I prefer the first one the other person posted. It shows off his stupidity when he looked at the sun, and also it looks like he's kinda happy about it.
I moved to California from Tulsa last year and that blows my mind. They're $12 here one per customer but Cali had made me numb to outrageous prices but that price in Oklahoma brings it all back.
Y'all I thought the whole "price of eggs" thing was kind of a meme/exaggeration (I'm Canadian), but holy shit $12???? I live in one of the most expensive cities in Canada and we pay like 7CAD. You're probably better off raising a community chicken at those prices.
To be fair about 4 or 5 months ago they were less than $2 but this bird flu shot has seen it just get completely out of hand. I didn't even live in the most expensive city here.
There are certainly voters who credit or blame everything in the economy on whoever happens to be President and voted for Trump because they saw a lot of inflation under Biden and hoped that voting for Trump would result in less inflation. Those guys are probably operating on a flawed understanding, though the "if things are going well economically at the moment, credit the President, and if they're going badly, blame the President, because it must be the current President's doing" is not a new phenomenon in American politics.
But this particular effect is really driven by nature.
Behind rising egg prices and shortages is a strain of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), known as H5N1, that killed 13.2 million commercial egg-laying hens in the month of December alone and continues to depopulate flocks into 2025, according to the USDA. Outbreaks of H5N1 were first detected in the U.S. in 2022 and are considered to be the main driver behind the years-long volatility in egg prices.
H5N1, which has a high mortality rate among infected poultry and wild birds, is being watched closely by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a potential public health threat. So far, the CDC has received one report of a person dying after being hospitalized with severe illness from the virus. Among cattle, the average mortality and culling rate is 2% or less, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association. However, officials warn that H5N1 is lethal to cats
For now, the virus remains mostly a thorn in the side of U.S. consumers fed up with inflation.
If only there was some sort of center for disease control that could assist the American public in combating illness. Surely, if such a center did exist, the president wouldn't hamstring them in some way in which may prevent farmers from taking action against infectious diseases destroying their livestock.
Oh, would you look at that, the president did hamstring the CDC by halting regular release of their scientific reports, and so it is, in fact, on him that bird flu is causing egg prices to soar.
That order has a long-term effect though. In a few months it will probably be significantly worse than it would've been without that order but no decision made in the last couple of weeks could affect egg prices today.
If you try to get elected by blaming something on the currently elected official and say that you will fix that, be 100% prepared to take the blame if that thing gets worse even if it was something you had no control in whatsoever, because you stood up and took responsibility for it.
If you don't want to be blamed for saying stupid things, stop saying stupid things.
Say, is that the same CBS News who's parent company, Paramount, is currently in talks to settle a legal dispute with Heir Trump because he didn't like their accurate reporting about him so he sued?
The primary problem is most people don’t understand inflation. Inflation is the speed at which things get more expensive. There is always creep up.
That’s what the 3% “cost of living” yearly raise is supposed to cover. It’s not really a “good job” raise, it just keeps your wage exactly the same as the prior year alongside inflation. Another thing a lot of people don’t understand, but that’s a bit of a digression.
So. Inflation speeds or slows but never reverses. Prices never go back down unless there’s recession. When the DC people talked about the economy being good they meant, in part, that inflation was fixed. We were back to 3%. The problem with that is it doesn’t bring down the price of anything. It only means that prices stopped jumping up so high compared to 2019.
So this idea that 2016 prices would return with Trump is based in a misunderstanding of economics. Prices don’t go back down.
In fact, like the COVID jump, I wouldn’t be surprised if the egg industry left prices up once the avian flu passes.
Donald Trump in office for a week: "This is why your egg prices went up"
BlueMAGA is such a bleak turn for liberalism. We're abandoning any idea that federal policy might affect our material conditions. Presidents are just a panacea, an excuse to close our eyes and insist everything is actually great, right up until the election cycle breaks against us at which point its not our fault so we can acknowledge it again.
The only thing Democrats in leadership seem to have learned from movement conservatism is how to lie to their rank-and-file members. Now all we do is pass the buck from one failing administration to another, while asserting everything bad is caused by Wrong Party Backed By Evil Foreign Government.
No wonder the US is embracing genocidal fascism on a national scale.
You do realize the comments are tongue-in-cheek right? It's because he guaranteed an immediate drop in grocery prices and people are volleying after we had to hear a crapton of "Biden Did That" nonsense while gas prices rose back to previous levels alongside the economic recovery after the pandemic. No one here thinks either president is God.
I don't know whether you're just imperceptive or whether you're being willfully oblivious so you can force-feed us the same bLUemAgA talking points you get rightfully downvoted for in every post.
In any sane world, would something as specific as eggs drive politics? They also didn’t weigh in on how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie-pop. That’s fine, they should be concerned about bigger things
In any sane world, would something as specific as eggs drive politics?
Mass media is one hell of a drug. I remember the Swift Boat Veterans making the 2004 election about whether or not John Kerry faked his war wound to win a purple heart. And then there was the 1988 race, where the national news collectively shat itself over Dukakis doing a photo op in a tank (OG Tankie).
Conservative news outlets hammering every outlet with "Eggs! Too expensive! INFLATION! INFLATION! INFLATION!" stories made this a touchstone for a low of traditional media consuming voters.
Hey, in a different egg thread I wrote a long comment about why eggs matter. You can read it here.
It’s hard to get people to grasp the meaning of inflation, and even if a person has partial understanding it’s easy to obfuscate it with other measures, but the meaning of expensive eggs is clear to everyone.
I know the prez said he'd drop the price of groceries on day one, but he got a little sidetracked by his side project of destroying the country. But give him a few more weeks to get that done and then I'm sure he'll get right back to the groceries.
Anecdote: My Trumpster in-laws could not stop yacking about "Biden's high eggs prices" just last month. Haven't heard a peep about the price of eggs since Trump came back. Now it's just "God's will."
Oh there is a flu sweeping through cattle herds. Its bird flu. Its killing some cattle, but the vast majority recover. But, one result of the bird flu, california's milk production is down 9 percent. That is an absolutely staggering number.
It's almost like the inhumane, cramped, living conditions we permit a lot of our agriculture industry to have for animals is biting us in the ass.
And before dipshits come in about how that doesn't apply to cage free chickens, etc. Of course that shit still affects overall product prices. One of the businesses along the line between the farm with the chickens and your grocery store aisle is going to raise the price anyway to gouge a little more profit from the system when they have the chance.
As a dairy farmer, i understand i may be somewhat biased on the evaluation of living conditions for my animals. I try very hard to make sure my animals are well cared for and have the space they need. And there is still room for improvement. Compared to a few decades ago, we are doing pretty good in my opinion.
But in the case of poultry, i do have opinions that do align a little bit more with you.
While poultry overcrowding and handling practices did play a role in exacerbating the bird flu problem, they were not the sole main driving factor that let this disease go rampant. It helped, but it isnt the whole story.
To see why, all we have to do is look at export markets and their rules.
There is a vaccine for bird flu for poultry. We've had it for years. Poultry farmers do not use it. Because using it limits the countries you can export your product to.
Long story short, it is more economically feasible for producers to nuke entire flocks and start from scratch, (chickens reproduce very quickly), than it is to spend money on vaccination and limit your export market.
This creates constant hot zones that spread to wild populations and migratory birds. This is why seals are dropping dead like flies on the Argentinean coast. I believe the mortality rate is over 90 percent. There are no large scale poultry farms in the falkland islands. Bird flu is so ingrained in migratory bird populations at this point that its crossing over and killing random species that are not confined or used for humans.
Cats that eat infected birds develope encephalopathy and have a massive mortality rate. Its how we first tied bird flu to cattle in the first place. Dairy farm cats are what turned us on to the bird vector. There is also no current vaccine for cattle, or many other animals. Yet.
There will continue to be huge issues with bird flu until we develope good policies to vaccinate all animals in cafo sites and let common sense and science take the lead instead of bad policy and greed. And it may be too late to be honest.
After being on the front lines from day one of the bird flu epidemic in cattle, when we didnt even know what was happening, and seeing how badly the government and officials have handled it, it is an absolute miracle that covid was only as bad as it was.
Those are fancyish eggs too. I paid $3.69 yesterday for store brand and they are often on sale for a little less. Our avian flu situation isn't as bad yet though so it can still go up.
Yeah, these are specialty farm eggs, cage free, and brown. They’re also stacked in with the organic eggs. They probably command a markup without the price increases from bird flu. This is also probably some trendier grocery store OP is shopping at.
Our “fancy” grocery store has a dozen cage free large brown eggs for $5.49, so either this is a local issue in Denver or OP is posting some BS engagement bait.
Denver is a special place, further its one city in a VERY large country and they don't cost anywhere NEAR that much in most places. I'm in the middle of Wyoming and 18 large eggs (Dozen and a half) cost $6.72. I can buy 18 Brown Cage Free Organic eggs (just like OPs) for 8.87.
This makes me miss Orange Julius stores. Dairy Queen bought them out and now you're lucky if DQ offers two flavors of Julius. And never peach, which was my favorite.
Also, fuck Trump. But that pretty much goes without saying.
I can't believe buying chickens actually saved me money, I just did it because I wanted chickens. I expected to pay more per egg (considering food and litter) because I don't have economies of scale like the large producers do.
Phew, are you OK over there? For comparison in Germany it's 2€ for 10 eggs, or 2,40€ for cage free. Eggs from the farmer start at 3,50€. In my area anyway.
Jein. It's not as bad as OP makes it sound, and I've never seen a 10 let alone 12 organic eggs in Germany for 2€ but I also live in the city.
What you're looking at here look like organic (bio) eggs, likely from a very expensive bio-store. Typical prices for eggs in Denver for organic eggs are 7.49 for 12 or .62¢ a egg at a store comparable to REWE. - Non-bio eggs get down to 4.99 on sale for 12 or .41 an egg.
Here at my REWE in Köln organic eggs are 3.39 for 10 or .33 an egg. So they are actually only twice the price for organic which is due to the killing of millions of chickens because of bird flue.
Is the bottom image with or without sales tax? Usually in the US prices are shown without it (as it depends on state, county, etc), whereas in most EU countries and I'm assuming Germany as well, prices for consumer goods are generally shown with taxes included
It's without but food products in Colorado are taxed at a very low rate around 3 percent unless you're on SNAP ("food stamps"), in which case food isn't taxed.
So, worst case scenario (in Colorado, specifically) on a $4.99 egg purchase you may also see an additional 15 cents in tax.
Some states do not differentiate in the tax percentage applied to foods versus other products so in those places it's not out of the question to see sales tax of 10 percent or so...
Wow. I saw people mentioning this on another thread and I posted that we can get 15 Medium Free Range Eggs in the UK for $3.37. Could find cheaper than that if I shopped around.
It's more due to the fact that 12 can be divided evenly by 2,3,4,6, and 12. If a single person couldn't afford a dozen they could split it among other people.
In hawaii we cant get eggs at all for the past week or two-- or even those milk carton pints of liquid eggs. I was told at the foodland today to come at 5am tomorrow when the doors open and theres always just a few boxes. So.. I guess I get up at 430 tomorrow. Then elbow the old ladies -- or whatever I need to do to get to the eggs first.
They are mean and have canes but they can't take a punch and I can run to the egg aisle first.
Kinda irrelevant, but get fucked Eggslut. Worst place to work for, owners are a bunch of liars and have terrible management practices. This is absolutely killing them and I love that for them.
Ate at 2 in Japan and loved it, asked for whipped cream on my pancakes and the dude very seriously emptied an entire can while staring at me. I tried to stop him, he did not listen
Generally, the staff and vibes are cool. I met some great people working there. They like to put up that front that they're trying to be cool and edgy. I was a cook for a long time at that point and flipping eggs isn't exactly hard or special, but they made it this big ordeal, which is fine but you can't look me in the face and tell me that what we're doing here is a culinary feat.
With me, I worked at their GCM location in L.A. and they were opening up a new spot in Glendale. They asked me to help open up the store under the stupilation that if I worked for so long and did 'X' things, I would get a promotion. When it came time for the raise and I had completed what they asked of me, I was constantly told it would happen, but they would give me the run around. Until finally someone else in the store was eligible as well, so instead of just giving us both the position they made us do a 'cook off' and when me and the other persons food came back exactly alike and they couldn't discriminate the begrudgingly gave me a portion of what they promised.
I cooked for them well, did what they asked of me, and came in on time so they couldn't fire me unless they wanted to pay me unemployment or maybe have me file a fucking lawsuit for unlawful termination. I just didn't play ball with their bullshit and didn't let them walk over me because they left such a bad taste in my mouth with my inital (verbal) offer being essentially reneged upon and they didn't like that at all. So they just made my job hell until I left. L.A. was hands down the worst place to cook. I'm sure there are a lot of opportunities there for people, but man if you aren't taken advantage of at every turn...
Oh, also. When L.A. raised their minimum wage, the store in Glendale didn't get the raise because it wasn't in L.A. and the whole store went on strike because of it. Don't know what happened with it. I just heard it second hand from an old coworker.
These fuckers are opening places all over THE WORLD and they nickle and dime their employees and generally treat them like shit. Fuck Jaime, and all of the owners (they were nice in person but they pulled the strings to make our lives hell).
Edit: forgot to say, glad you enjoyed your pancakes ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
At first my brain started assuming you were just memeing a monologue from Deus Ex, then I realized this was an original comment all original text. How sad is that? Lol
...just without the neat cyberpunk stuff.
And this was the game written on the unbelievable, edgy premise "...where every conspiracy theory is real." Lol
Edit: lol weird ratio. Okay maybe I was a clumsy communicator there, I meant "How sad is it that my first thought was a Deus Ex monologue perfectly fitting with our current times, but we don't even have sweet nanotech".
Also, that game's premise was trying to be just a little bit dystopianly-ridiculous, and it's now considered prophetic.
Definitely some greed. One grocery store here charges 50% more than the other just because (imagine: it's a Kroger owned store). Neither store is a discount or lower-end store either. Ridiculous.
And coincidentally (or no really coincidentally at all), OP's pic looks like a Kroger owned store too based on the price tag and the inconvenience sticker. Shocker that they'd charge that price 🙄
Like most things, it's a mix of factors. If there's a culling there will be less supply which will result in higher prices temporarily. But the few companies that control production are kinda just taking their time in lowering the prices once the supply issues are resolved. So there's a real issue, but there's also greed making it worse than it should be.
I don’t think corporate greed is a poor excuse though.
All prices in the UK have gone up by substantial amounts over the last 5 years. While at the same time these massive corporations have recorded record profits.
If the price increases were purely inflation then it would stand to reason that profits wouldn’t have gone up so much. Clearly they’ve used inflation as an excuse to squeeze consumers as much as possible.
I am talking generally here and not specifically about eggs.
Oh you’re misunderstanding me. I’m not saying corporations started being greedy over the last 5 years. I’m saying that they turned up the dial as far as they could. They’ve always been greedy.
By greedy I mean they have to extra t value for shareholders. Then you have pensions, UK at least, tied to the stock market making it almost impossible to change the system due to the fact we need to account for the elderly and we refuse to increase taxes by a substantial amount on obscene wealth.
Not necessarily better. My uni did experiments to see how far a chicken moved after being put in a free range pen, and they hardly move. Such pens are large and contain hundreds if not 1000s of chickens. (We tend to imagine free range as 15 hens in a flock, but that is miles away from the truth) Hypothesis was that since Chicken are flock animals they get stressed in these pens and the weaker ones now are on the outside of multiple flocks leading to more stress and feather picking as dominance never really are settled. Roomy cages with proper perches and such paradoxically might be "better" for industrially farmed chicken.
The terminology on the various bird conditions is frustrating and confusing. Cage free can effectively be exactly what you described - entirely indoors, crammed in and miserable, but not in cages. Free Range birds must have "access to the outdoors" but that can be as small as a hole they can stick their head out of but not go through. It's honestly ridiculous.
If you buy grocery store eggs, I would recommend looking for the Certified Humane stamp on eggs and other farm products and meats. While the conditions they require are still far from idyllic, they are better than the general standards most livestock exist in. For chickens, pasture raised certified humane is a good option as birds must be let fully outside into the pasture, must have a minimum of 10 square meters per bird when out there, and must be allowed out for a minimum of 6 hours per day. At least in these conditions, they can reasonably be birds and touch grass. There are a lot of other requirements as well, including perches and dust baths. Ideally if you can afford the extra couple of dollars, these are good companies to support. (There are also other 3rd party companies that certify pasture raised eggs, the Certified Humane one is just most common in my area).
English is not my first language so sorry for being unclear. I don't think we have that option in Norway. I just pick ecological as that is sort of similar. But it that is just being able to look outside or actually walk outside I don't know.
Edit: checked with my veterinarian wife. The eggs we buy are certified like that humane option
Your English is fantastic and you have no reason to apologize! I should apologize for assuming you were from the USA and not even bothering to state that my comments were. So sorry for that and the confusion caused! Sounds like both of our countries have confusing chicken standards though!
~~ Upstate NY and a dozen is between 8-9 dollars last I looked. ~~
I apologize, that's the 18 pack. I was reminded we got charged the 18 pack price but only had a 12. That was a four hour later going over the receipt find. This was a Price Chopper outside of Albany.
Colorado law only allows for cage free eggs as of January 1st of this year and had mostly already been all that's available here prior to this bird flu epidemic for maybe 6ish months and prices were not increased significantly as a result.
Regardless, this picture represents an extreme and not the least expensive eggs available at this particular store.
In Colorado Springs, I'm seeing Eggland's Best at $6.29 and Simple Truth "Kipster Large" eggs currently on sale at $4.99 per dozen, respectively, at King Soopers.
While these prices are certainly high compared to what we're used to, it's definitely not been nearly as outrageous as what I'm seeing online.
I can't imagine the prices and selection are actually significantly different at the same chain an hour away in Denver.
So your point is just that convenience costs more? I don't think that's really any kind of news flash for most people.
Whatever dude.... I'm not going to waste any more of my time to prove it but I'd bet that the exact same options are actually available at the location you shared screenshots from, as well.
Everyone trying to call bullshit, but my local discount market is selling eggs for $10.99 a dozen too. Not organic. Probably not even free range. Just the same cheap eggs as usual, but 3x the price.
Most groceries here don’t post prices online, but …..
Boston Metro West - Amazon Fresh eggs from “Whole Foods”, not the cheapest grocery, $4.49/doz grade a large brown. My regular grocery is much cheaper than “Whole Paycheck” for most things.
No taxes on food here, although Amazon Fresh has a delivery charge.
I imagine the huge disparity of prices is that culling due to bird flu must be regional and our chickens must not be infected yet
Yeah, these are specialty farm eggs, cage free, and brown. They’re also stacked in with the organic eggs. They probably command a markup without the price increases from bird flu. This is also *probably* some trendier grocery store OP is shopping at.
Our “fancy” grocery store has a dozen cage free large brown eggs for $5.49, so either this is a local issue in Denver or OP is posting some BS engagement bait.
Just snapped this pic from our store’s online shopping app.
I'm in Denver as well, you can't find regular eggs in stock. The only thing I can find is the cage-free/brown egg stuff. So this price isn't too far off (especially for King Soopers (Kroger). I've seen price tags for as low as $5.50, but never in stock (this was at Trader Joe's).
I go to a local grocery store, end of last year a dozen eggs could be had on special (pretty regularly) for $1. I spent $4.50 for a half-dozen on sale... ($9/dozen). It came with a card that said Jubilant Julie is the bird of the month, LMAO. This was the cheapest option, including sold-out stuff.
My recommendation to OP is stop shopping at King Soopers and Safeway. Shop around, try out Sprouts, Trader Joe's, Target, etc. Or, better yet, find a local grocery store (Brother's Market, Max Market, Clark's Market, Sun Market, Syracuse Market to name a few). Not only will it probably be a better product for the same/less price, but you'll support a local business and you won't have to wait in line for 10+ soul-crushing minutes.
Isn’t Kroger the one that got in trouble for “surge pricing”? Basically corporate whitewashing of price gouging. They also switched to e-price tags that would let them more quickly change prices.
No, this is objective, not a “story”. At this time these are the actual prices for the eggs at my location at a store with historically higher prices. I qualified my assertion with facts. If you want, I will dig up more egg prices to create an unscientific average to prove that egg prices are not insane here. However, OP has offered no qualifications for the store or the farm. That’s a “story” left up to the reader to infer all egg prices are high in Denver.
As a matter of fact, here you go:
Local Price Chopper:
Local ShopRite:
I’m sure I could find expensive eggs for engagement bait.
I get that, but regional egg prices aren't directly comparable without adjusting for the cost of living. I could prove eggs in my area cost a dollar but that gives you no info unless I say they used to cost 10 cents.
I'm not admonishing you, just saying you are both right basically
Your post prompted me to check -- at the "fancy" grocery store in town, I can get a dozen eggs for about $5. Same price at Aldi. Looking at Target, it's about $4.20.
Wait, what? I usually expect Target to be more expensive than other options in the area! Strange times.
Egg colour is down to genetics - some breeds, eg leghorn, lay white eggs. Others lay various shades of brown. It's what's inside that counts, and that depends a lot on what you feed a chicken.
Where I live, a city in the PNW, Fred Meyer (Kroger) cheap ass eggs are around $7. $7.50 at Safeway. Even Winco and Trader Joe's eggs are around $5/6 a dozen.
I'm not sure where you live, but I'm guessing it's less densely populated or has easier access to diary farms.
Or you shop online for food, which, no, I'm not doing that.
Even worse when you consider this is without tax and the compareisons are made to prices without tax. To be fair the rest of the world doesn't threat their eggs so they need to be refrigerated like these US eggs need to be, which also costs money.
In my state, prepared foods are generally taxed while produce, canned goods, dairy, and many others are not. The system is confusing enough that hardly anyone knows what's taxable or not, so they rely on the store systems to do it for them.
Got a 18 pack from Penny the other day for about 3 or 4 euro. Only thing I miss about American grocery stores are the variety but fuck all that if you can't afford the majority of it
We’re only talking eggs here, this is not an indicator of general inflation.
We had that too so prices are higher over say five years, but as far as I know, general inflation is under control. The biggest problem there is all the price increases blamed on “global supply chain disruption” from a couple years back: why haven’t they gone away since the disruption has?
The cheapest I can find atm are 2.1 euros for a 12 pack of store brand eggs, 0.175 per egg. Eu.
Edit to add: imo the only relevant comparison is comparing the cheapest with the cheapest available chicken eggs. If you add in branding, location, ... Then you're no longer comparing eggs, but rather cost of living & marketing.
The cheapest available option can differ a lot due to different animal welfare regulations. Caged eggs are the cheapest but they already are or will soon be unavailable in Europe and a few states in America.
The second cheapest is perchery eggs, which is probably available everywhere, so it'd be better fora direct comparison even if the specific regulations differ somewhat.
Caged is already no longer available where I live, so the price I gave is for perchery eggs, medium sized. I would have added that it was for perchery, but I only learned that word 5 minutes ago from your post ;). In the last few years when caged eggs were available, a 6 pack of perchery eggs usually was the same or almost the same price as caged. I remember the price difference being so insignificant that I always bought perchery.
But there's bound to be so many regulatory differences, that probably even the perchery label will have different rules. And some of those labels are pretty empty. So imo for a simple comparison, it's still best to just compare cheapest with cheapest of the same size and ignore labelling/marketing.
Already started. We have a coop about ready, my wife has experience, we're semi-rural, about set. Only thing, I want them free range and I'm not sure about the wildlife.
Haven't seen a fox in ages. The local coyotes don't come in here, yet, but a massive new development is pushing them out of their comfort zone. Plenty of raptors it seems. But hell, I can afford everything but a ton of fencing, of any kind.
What to do? Just run out with the 20-gauge and start blasting at 3AM when shit goes sideways?!
My primary plan is to hatch extra and expect some losses. Wildlife needs to eat, too, and I can’t fault it for doing so, even if it’s inconvenient for me.
However I’ll also employ roosters, which are annoying but do great protecting the flock (even sacrificing themselves to save their ladies). If you can’t/won’t have roosters for whatever reason, a couple geese will help as well, or you can add them to the roostered flock for extra protection, I believe.
Personally, the only way I’d ever shoot something going after my flock would be if it’s a threat to the enclosed run/coop where they stay at night and in bad weather. Or if they were habitual about raiding my flock.
But chickens should be in a coop at night so as long as you have one critters can’t get into, you probably won’t have too many losses.
Unleaded gas became standard in the 70s. If you live in a dense city that was built 40+ years ago and eat eggs daily and are a small child, you may reach the non-recomended intake amount, barely.
Most people with a backyard big enough for chickens don't live in the urban areas that had such dense lead exposure anyways
We are "uptown" for lack of a better description, not the more expensive part but quite close to downtown and do have a yard, our neighbors keep chickens and it's protected inside the city, you are allowed to raise them and the feral ones are also protected by law, you can't just take them and make Coq au Vin.
A few thoughts on that. Unleaded started in 1975. I'd like to know when it reached 50% of the vehicles but googling doesn't give me that. Assuming 20 years for the entire fleet to turn over, that would give 1985 for 50%. I think you want 25% or less leaded cars until you don't have too much lead in the air, so that goes to about 1990. The pollution didn't end immediately at the city limits, so the burbs that would be built on the next mile or so would still be on polluted land. So I think that gets you to houses built 1995+ to even 2000+ to get to uncontaminated land (depending on how fast your city was growing).
I know around here the houses with decent backyards were built in the 70s to 80s. In the 90s the yards were getting small, and nowadays they are almost nonexistent. So the best suburbs for chickens are 80s and earlier. Which is also the contaminated land.
Last thought is that they keep saying that there is no safe level of lead exposure.
I was thinking Nixon banned it in 1970, but that was paint apparently, it appears the partial bans started in 85 on gas, and complete ban was done under Clinton in 96. I don't know anyone with chickens on a lot smaller than a acre, but maybe that's just a regional thing around me. I can't see how you could have free range chickens on a quarter acre lot, they'd just fly over privacy fences and piss off neighbors Id assume. But maybe three are more people doing that than I knew
It's less about gas and more about cars. They mandated new cars run on unleaded gas in 1975. While it was technically possible to convert a leaded car to run on unleaded gas, it wasn't done in any substantial numbers. So we had to wait for leaded cars to wear out and be replaced with new cars that ran on unleaded. That's why I said 20 years for the car fleet to turn over.
Backyard chickens depends a lot on local laws, most cities ban them just because. But if a city allows them, afaik you don't need much room.
Mine have a 20ftx10ft run that's covered, and I leave the gate open so they can go out when they want and explore the woods behind. It's an acre lot that I just rent half the duplex. Neighbors on all sides like them. They all get free eggs. One neighbor got yelled at by his wife though because he was buying food for them to put over by his truck so theyd come around more and hang out, which means of course they are more likely to shit near where they park there vehicles.
obligatory forest chickens:
As long as MAGA doesn't blame Trump or the corporations directly then those corporations will continue to raise prices because higher profits are in their best interest.
Can't. Eggs have to be cage free in CO since January 1st. The law passed 2 years ago, so of course egg companies are acting like they couldn't possibly have prepared for it to take effect. The plus side (for me and like 5 other people) is that this makes the vegan egg alternative seem WAY more reasonably priced these days.
Its such a too-little too-late maneuver. If closed coops hadn't been these giant petri dishes for disease over the last thirty years, maybe we wouldn't have mutated a strain of H5N1 that was so virulent. Now we're switching to free range just in time for our sickened flocks to infect the wild migratory fowl that pass through.
Only thing to do is... checks latest EO... defund all public health and safety measures against infection and transmission.
You mean he can ban transgender, eliminate DEI, fire thousands of people, withdraw from multiple treaties, and start trade wars; but he can't bring down the price of eggs day one.
Sounds like you just making excuses because you fantasize about gargling his orange eggs in your mouth.
Still wondering why he can't address his actual campaign promises and bring the price of groceries down. Where is that executive order? Oh that is right he and his cabal of tards can't do even the one thing that actually got them elected.
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reddig33@lemmy.world · 165 pts · 1y
That price tag is missing its Trump “I did this!” sticker.
9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world · 186 pts · 1y
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io · 88 pts · 1y
Thanks for reminding me about him looking straight at the sun like a 2 year old.
neatobuilds@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 1y
He needs to see the target he want to nuke
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 1y
I need a high resolution version so I can print some stickers.
AtariDump@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 1y
gofsckyourself@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
I prefer the first one the other person posted. It shows off his stupidity when he looked at the sun, and also it looks like he's kinda happy about it.
BlackArtist@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
What are you using to print stickers, I've been wanting to do the same but can only find quite expensive machines to do it.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
I actually just use Sticker Mule.
BlackArtist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Thanks for that, prices seem quite reasonable
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
I use them ony snowboards and skate boards. I have some that have been on for years and they have yet to peel or fade.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
6.19 in Oklahoma.
KingJalopy@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y
I moved to California from Tulsa last year and that blows my mind. They're $12 here one per customer but Cali had made me numb to outrageous prices but that price in Oklahoma brings it all back.
garbagebagel@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Y'all I thought the whole "price of eggs" thing was kind of a meme/exaggeration (I'm Canadian), but holy shit $12???? I live in one of the most expensive cities in Canada and we pay like 7CAD. You're probably better off raising a community chicken at those prices.
KingJalopy@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
To be fair about 4 or 5 months ago they were less than $2 but this bird flu shot has seen it just get completely out of hand. I didn't even live in the most expensive city here.
Ketram@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1y
I know it's crude but I still can't kick my love for the idea of a "I raped that too!" Sticker
tal@lemmy.today · -42 pts · 1y
Not really Trump. That's avian flu driving that.
There are certainly voters who credit or blame everything in the economy on whoever happens to be President and voted for Trump because they saw a lot of inflation under Biden and hoped that voting for Trump would result in less inflation. Those guys are probably operating on a flawed understanding, though the "if things are going well economically at the moment, credit the President, and if they're going badly, blame the President, because it must be the current President's doing" is not a new phenomenon in American politics.
But this particular effect is really driven by nature.
EDIT:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/eggs-prices-shortages-bird-flu-2025/
reddig33@lemmy.world · 122 pts · 1y
Next thing you know you’ll be telling me Biden had no control over the price of gas! 😉
Skyrmir@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 1y
No one putting up an 'I did this' sticker actually gives a shit about the reasons for the price. And no one ever has.
SpaceBishop@lemmy.zip · 51 pts · 1y
If only there was some sort of center for disease control that could assist the American public in combating illness. Surely, if such a center did exist, the president wouldn't hamstring them in some way in which may prevent farmers from taking action against infectious diseases destroying their livestock.
Oh, would you look at that, the president did hamstring the CDC by halting regular release of their scientific reports, and so it is, in fact, on him that bird flu is causing egg prices to soar.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/30/health/bird-flu-mmwr-pause-trump-kff-partner/index.html
queermunist@lemmy.ml · 12 pts · 1y
Don't worry, RFK Jr is going to fix it when he's heading the HHS!
acetanilide@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Yes. You see, he's going to have them stop testing for it. Everyone knows if you stop testing for it then it no longer exists.
CubitOom@infosec.pub · 37 pts · 1y
And the CDC being ordered to not report any data on the avian flu via an executive order is also not the current administrations fault I guess?
yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 1y
That order has a long-term effect though. In a few months it will probably be significantly worse than it would've been without that order but no decision made in the last couple of weeks could affect egg prices today.
GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 1y
If you try to get elected by blaming something on the currently elected official and say that you will fix that, be 100% prepared to take the blame if that thing gets worse even if it was something you had no control in whatsoever, because you stood up and took responsibility for it.
If you don't want to be blamed for saying stupid things, stop saying stupid things.
voicesarefree@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
In case you missed it from a few years ago. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Did_That!
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
I'm calling it Trump Flu, because why not.
Monstrosity@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
Say, is that the same CBS News who's parent company, Paramount, is currently in talks to settle a legal dispute with Heir Trump because he didn't like their accurate reporting about him so he sued?
Why yes, yes it is!
zephorah@lemm.ee · -4 pts · 1y
The primary problem is most people don’t understand inflation. Inflation is the speed at which things get more expensive. There is always creep up.
That’s what the 3% “cost of living” yearly raise is supposed to cover. It’s not really a “good job” raise, it just keeps your wage exactly the same as the prior year alongside inflation. Another thing a lot of people don’t understand, but that’s a bit of a digression.
So. Inflation speeds or slows but never reverses. Prices never go back down unless there’s recession. When the DC people talked about the economy being good they meant, in part, that inflation was fixed. We were back to 3%. The problem with that is it doesn’t bring down the price of anything. It only means that prices stopped jumping up so high compared to 2019.
So this idea that 2016 prices would return with Trump is based in a misunderstanding of economics. Prices don’t go back down.
In fact, like the COVID jump, I wouldn’t be surprised if the egg industry left prices up once the avian flu passes.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · -55 pts · 1y
Joe Biden in office for four years: "I sleep"
Donald Trump in office for a week: "This is why your egg prices went up"
BlueMAGA is such a bleak turn for liberalism. We're abandoning any idea that federal policy might affect our material conditions. Presidents are just a panacea, an excuse to close our eyes and insist everything is actually great, right up until the election cycle breaks against us at which point its not our fault so we can acknowledge it again.
The only thing Democrats in leadership seem to have learned from movement conservatism is how to lie to their rank-and-file members. Now all we do is pass the buck from one failing administration to another, while asserting everything bad is caused by Wrong Party Backed By Evil Foreign Government.
No wonder the US is embracing genocidal fascism on a national scale.
gsfraley@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 1y
You do realize the comments are tongue-in-cheek right? It's because he guaranteed an immediate drop in grocery prices and people are volleying after we had to hear a crapton of "Biden Did That" nonsense while gas prices rose back to previous levels alongside the economic recovery after the pandemic. No one here thinks either president is God.
I don't know whether you're just imperceptive or whether you're being willfully oblivious so you can force-feed us the same bLUemAgA talking points you get rightfully downvoted for in every post.
thefartographer@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Whose tongue in whose cheek? Are you hitting on me? It's working.
gsfraley@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
😉😉
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 1y
Did Biden or Harris mention bird flu even once on the campaign trail? It certainly didn't come up during the debate.
They just dug in their heels and insisted inflation was over
AA5B@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
In any sane world, would something as specific as eggs drive politics? They also didn’t weigh in on how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie-pop. That’s fine, they should be concerned about bigger things
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Mass media is one hell of a drug. I remember the Swift Boat Veterans making the 2004 election about whether or not John Kerry faked his war wound to win a purple heart. And then there was the 1988 race, where the national news collectively shat itself over Dukakis doing a photo op in a tank (OG Tankie).
Conservative news outlets hammering every outlet with "Eggs! Too expensive! INFLATION! INFLATION! INFLATION!" stories made this a touchstone for a low of traditional media consuming voters.
Gayhitler@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
Hey, in a different egg thread I wrote a long comment about why eggs matter. You can read it here.
It’s hard to get people to grasp the meaning of inflation, and even if a person has partial understanding it’s easy to obfuscate it with other measures, but the meaning of expensive eggs is clear to everyone.
ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org · 122 pts · 1y
I know the prez said he'd drop the price of groceries on day one, but he got a little sidetracked by his side project of destroying the country. But give him a few more weeks to get that done and then I'm sure he'll get right back to the groceries.
Rhaedas@fedia.io · 15 pts · 1y
Oh no, grocery prices are this term's infrastructure week.
alekwithak@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Groceries, the term he popularized that no one was using until he started saying it.
GiddyGap@lemm.ee · 59 pts · 1y
Anecdote: My Trumpster in-laws could not stop yacking about "Biden's high eggs prices" just last month. Haven't heard a peep about the price of eggs since Trump came back. Now it's just "God's will."
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 51 pts · 1y
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
Nu-uh Fox and friends said it was DEI and wokeness causing eggs prices to soar.
I know it is fun to think about getting back at these people but it doesn't really work. They were never rational to begin with.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 59 pts · 1y
I used to buy those eggs at the bottom of the picture. They come with a newsletter inside about how the chickens are doing.
The cheap eggs now cost what those eggs used to cost.
asqapro@reddthat.com · 46 pts · 1y
I still buy those eggs, the notes they put in are cute.
Lesrid@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
I wonder if writing that up is a full-time job. I'd love to interview chickens.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y
Chickens can actually be vicious. I think they're the closest living relation to the T-Rex.
paysrenttobirds@sh.itjust.works · 50 pts · 1y
Weird: this is Safeway, Canada
noride@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 1y
Hey Internet stranger, can I buy some of your eggs?
lurch@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y
quick, before the orange clown adds tariffs 😆
tiefling@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 1y
(For readers, with the USD-CAD conversion they're closer to
$5$4)GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
More like $4.
Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
zephorah@lemm.ee · 9 pts · 1y
This needs more upvotes. There’s no way these should cost more than meat, whatever the excuse.
Lauchs@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
There isn't a massive bovine flu killing huge swathes of flocks...
Podunk@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
Lets be clear. Its still bird flu. Not bovine flu. Regardless of whether cattle are getting it.
If a person gets swine flu it doesnt suddenly become human flu.
Things have names and this distinction matters.
Lauchs@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Sure but the point is that there isn't a disease sweeping through cattle herds killing most of them etc.
Which is happening to flocks of birds, including poultry.
Podunk@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Oh there is a flu sweeping through cattle herds. Its bird flu. Its killing some cattle, but the vast majority recover. But, one result of the bird flu, california's milk production is down 9 percent. That is an absolutely staggering number.
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
It's almost like the inhumane, cramped, living conditions we permit a lot of our agriculture industry to have for animals is biting us in the ass.
And before dipshits come in about how that doesn't apply to cage free chickens, etc. Of course that shit still affects overall product prices. One of the businesses along the line between the farm with the chickens and your grocery store aisle is going to raise the price anyway to gouge a little more profit from the system when they have the chance.
Podunk@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
As a dairy farmer, i understand i may be somewhat biased on the evaluation of living conditions for my animals. I try very hard to make sure my animals are well cared for and have the space they need. And there is still room for improvement. Compared to a few decades ago, we are doing pretty good in my opinion.
But in the case of poultry, i do have opinions that do align a little bit more with you. While poultry overcrowding and handling practices did play a role in exacerbating the bird flu problem, they were not the sole main driving factor that let this disease go rampant. It helped, but it isnt the whole story.
To see why, all we have to do is look at export markets and their rules.
There is a vaccine for bird flu for poultry. We've had it for years. Poultry farmers do not use it. Because using it limits the countries you can export your product to.
https://www.newsweek.com/why-us-not-vaccinating-poultry-against-bird-flu-2010511
Long story short, it is more economically feasible for producers to nuke entire flocks and start from scratch, (chickens reproduce very quickly), than it is to spend money on vaccination and limit your export market.
This creates constant hot zones that spread to wild populations and migratory birds. This is why seals are dropping dead like flies on the Argentinean coast. I believe the mortality rate is over 90 percent. There are no large scale poultry farms in the falkland islands. Bird flu is so ingrained in migratory bird populations at this point that its crossing over and killing random species that are not confined or used for humans.
Cats that eat infected birds develope encephalopathy and have a massive mortality rate. Its how we first tied bird flu to cattle in the first place. Dairy farm cats are what turned us on to the bird vector. There is also no current vaccine for cattle, or many other animals. Yet.
There will continue to be huge issues with bird flu until we develope good policies to vaccinate all animals in cafo sites and let common sense and science take the lead instead of bad policy and greed. And it may be too late to be honest.
After being on the front lines from day one of the bird flu epidemic in cattle, when we didnt even know what was happening, and seeing how badly the government and officials have handled it, it is an absolute miracle that covid was only as bad as it was.
zephorah@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
The bird flu is likely affecting all of North America. Mine is commentary on Canada vs States rxns on the price of eggs.
I can’t imagine the focus on eggs for most of 2024 didn’t impact the price hike as well.
morbidcactus@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 1y
This is from a Zehrs, it's Loblaws so not even remotely the cheapest place in town
With exchange, that pack of 30 organic eggs is ~11.90 USD. I usually just buy no name.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 1y
That's expensive. I live out in the boonies where things cost more and my local store is $4 a dozen.
Sabin10@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Those are fancyish eggs too. I paid $3.69 yesterday for store brand and they are often on sale for a little less. Our avian flu situation isn't as bad yet though so it can still go up.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Yeah, these are specialty farm eggs, cage free, and brown. They’re also stacked in with the organic eggs. They probably command a markup without the price increases from bird flu. This is also probably some trendier grocery store OP is shopping at.
Our “fancy” grocery store has a dozen cage free large brown eggs for $5.49, so either this is a local issue in Denver or OP is posting some BS engagement bait.
Eiri@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y
What the heck happened to American eggs?
SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Even those Canadian eggs are relatively expensive to what I'm used to:
These are Euro prices.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Price at Tesco in the UK:
Even cheaper at Aldi:
Buelldozer@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 1y
Denver is a special place, further its one city in a VERY large country and they don't cost anywhere NEAR that much in most places. I'm in the middle of Wyoming and 18 large eggs (Dozen and a half) cost $6.72. I can buy 18 Brown Cage Free Organic eggs (just like OPs) for 8.87.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
That's still an obscene price.
bjorney@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 1y
Voila is a delivery service, not sure why they decided to pick that out of literally everywhere in the country
They are $3.60 a dozen at Costco ($2.50 USD) last time I was there
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Meanwhile my local Costco in AZ had no eggs at all 4 days ago.
QuarterSwede@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Same in CO. They’re all out. That’s why egg prices are so stupid in Colorado.
hobovision@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Your monopoly money buys more eggs than our real money?! Now I've seen everything!
SorryQuick@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 1y
Harvey656@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 1y
That's still high, assuming cad, but much better. It's around 6-8 'freedom' dollars down here is southern America.
kikutwo@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 1y
Impossible, Orange Julius was fixing the prices. What is the hold up?
thefartographer@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 1y
He should sign another eggsecutive order
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl · 8 pts · 1y
It’s Hussein Obama eating all them eggs! Thanks Obama!
kikutwo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Must be the DEI chickens.
Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Couldn't have been, because that pompous dick Gaston eats the entire daily supply every morning to get jacked.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
This makes me miss Orange Julius stores. Dairy Queen bought them out and now you're lucky if DQ offers two flavors of Julius. And never peach, which was my favorite.
Also, fuck Trump. But that pretty much goes without saying.
fwdbias@lemm.ee · 32 pts · 1y
Conservatives: Thanks Obama!
ekZepp@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 1y
ThermonuclearCactus@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 28 pts · 1y
I can't believe buying chickens actually saved me money, I just did it because I wanted chickens. I expected to pay more per egg (considering food and litter) because I don't have economies of scale like the large producers do.
mechoman444@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 1y
Bird flu sucks. Too bad the CDC can't warn us about it though.
AAA@feddit.org · 24 pts · 1y
Phew, are you OK over there? For comparison in Germany it's 2€ for 10 eggs, or 2,40€ for cage free. Eggs from the farmer start at 3,50€. In my area anyway.
stiephelando@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 1y
They're fighting the bird flu
PolyLlamaRous@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Jein. It's not as bad as OP makes it sound, and I've never seen a 10 let alone 12 organic eggs in Germany for 2€ but I also live in the city.
What you're looking at here look like organic (bio) eggs, likely from a very expensive bio-store. Typical prices for eggs in Denver for organic eggs are 7.49 for 12 or .62¢ a egg at a store comparable to REWE. - Non-bio eggs get down to 4.99 on sale for 12 or .41 an egg.
Here at my REWE in Köln organic eggs are 3.39 for 10 or .33 an egg. So they are actually only twice the price for organic which is due to the killing of millions of chickens because of bird flue.
boonhet@lemm.ee · 12 pts · 1y
Is the bottom image with or without sales tax? Usually in the US prices are shown without it (as it depends on state, county, etc), whereas in most EU countries and I'm assuming Germany as well, prices for consumer goods are generally shown with taxes included
Bestaa@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Everywhere I've lived, most groceries aren't taxed, so what's showing would be the final price.
Things that might be taxed are things like pre-prepared food or soda.
MistakenBear32@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 1y
It's without but food products in Colorado are taxed at a very low rate around 3 percent unless you're on SNAP ("food stamps"), in which case food isn't taxed.
So, worst case scenario (in Colorado, specifically) on a $4.99 egg purchase you may also see an additional 15 cents in tax.
Some states do not differentiate in the tax percentage applied to foods versus other products so in those places it's not out of the question to see sales tax of 10 percent or so...
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 22 pts · 1y
Wow. I saw people mentioning this on another thread and I posted that we can get 15 Medium Free Range Eggs in the UK for $3.37. Could find cheaper than that if I shopped around.
randon31415@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1y
It is a banana! How much could it cost? $10?
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 1y
Meanwhile in sweden its $3.50 for 12 pieces cage free and if you get cheap ones its $4 for 24 pieces.
Justas@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 1y
Similar in Lithuania but we buy them in packs of 10.
PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1y
What a sensible, decimal system!
roguetrick@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Duodecimal is objectively better and that's why commoners used it.
TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y
That's because the commoners had 6 fingers in each hand
roguetrick@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Well they could count 6 knuckles on each hand, with one hand representing the dozens place.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
It's more due to the fact that 12 can be divided evenly by 2,3,4,6, and 12. If a single person couldn't afford a dozen they could split it among other people.
roguetrick@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Division is the key but affordability wasn't why. Everything agricultural was counted by the dozen, gross, and great gross.
Mongostein@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
$10.00CAD OR $6.90USD for 30 here in Canada.
JackbyDev@programming.dev · 21 pts · 1y
It's a dozen eggs, Michael. How much could it cost, $10?
WrenFeathers@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 1y
Irelephant@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 1y
Yeah, like reducing tax businesses have to pay won't make prices cheaper, they'll just pocket the cash.
thericcer@reddthat.com · 19 pts · 1y
In Colorado stores must sell cage-free eggs now. The law just went into effect.
https://ag.colorado.gov/press-release/all-eggs-sold-in-colorado-starting-in-2025-will-be-cage-free
Stamau123@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
I was wondering why they were the only option, figured they were just the ones not hit by bird flu
kreskin@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 1y
In hawaii we cant get eggs at all for the past week or two-- or even those milk carton pints of liquid eggs. I was told at the foodland today to come at 5am tomorrow when the doors open and theres always just a few boxes. So.. I guess I get up at 430 tomorrow. Then elbow the old ladies -- or whatever I need to do to get to the eggs first.
They are mean and have canes but they can't take a punch and I can run to the egg aisle first.
BarbudoGrande@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 1y
Let's Go Trump!
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 1y
Thanks, Obama!
Yokozuna@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
Kinda irrelevant, but get fucked Eggslut. Worst place to work for, owners are a bunch of liars and have terrible management practices. This is absolutely killing them and I love that for them.
gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1y
Well that fucking sucks
Ate at 2 in Japan and loved it, asked for whipped cream on my pancakes and the dude very seriously emptied an entire can while staring at me. I tried to stop him, he did not listen
Yokozuna@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Generally, the staff and vibes are cool. I met some great people working there. They like to put up that front that they're trying to be cool and edgy. I was a cook for a long time at that point and flipping eggs isn't exactly hard or special, but they made it this big ordeal, which is fine but you can't look me in the face and tell me that what we're doing here is a culinary feat.
With me, I worked at their GCM location in L.A. and they were opening up a new spot in Glendale. They asked me to help open up the store under the stupilation that if I worked for so long and did 'X' things, I would get a promotion. When it came time for the raise and I had completed what they asked of me, I was constantly told it would happen, but they would give me the run around. Until finally someone else in the store was eligible as well, so instead of just giving us both the position they made us do a 'cook off' and when me and the other persons food came back exactly alike and they couldn't discriminate the begrudgingly gave me a portion of what they promised.
I cooked for them well, did what they asked of me, and came in on time so they couldn't fire me unless they wanted to pay me unemployment or maybe have me file a fucking lawsuit for unlawful termination. I just didn't play ball with their bullshit and didn't let them walk over me because they left such a bad taste in my mouth with my inital (verbal) offer being essentially reneged upon and they didn't like that at all. So they just made my job hell until I left. L.A. was hands down the worst place to cook. I'm sure there are a lot of opportunities there for people, but man if you aren't taken advantage of at every turn...
Oh, also. When L.A. raised their minimum wage, the store in Glendale didn't get the raise because it wasn't in L.A. and the whole store went on strike because of it. Don't know what happened with it. I just heard it second hand from an old coworker.
These fuckers are opening places all over THE WORLD and they nickle and dime their employees and generally treat them like shit. Fuck Jaime, and all of the owners (they were nice in person but they pulled the strings to make our lives hell).
Edit: forgot to say, glad you enjoyed your pancakes ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ
Theonetheycall1845@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1y
So, I guess no.... Denver omelet? Sorry I'll leave.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 13 pts · 1y
What's the thing with eggs in the US ?
Mayonnaise@lemm.ee · 25 pts · 1y
My understanding is mostly a bird flu but also inflation.
MapleEngineer@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y
It's ok, though. Trump has installed a loyalist who will scrub all mention of bird flu from the USDA website. Problem solved!
Look how well it worked out at the FAA!
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
"SLOW THE TEATING DOWN, PLEASE."
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 1y
Actual inflation or inflation mixed with greedy price increases?
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Do you have any sources for this? Also the songs that mention it? I'd like to read more about this
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Yggnar@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 1y
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · -2 pts · 1y
At first my brain started assuming you were just memeing a monologue from Deus Ex, then I realized this was
an original commentall original text. How sad is that? Lol...just without the neat cyberpunk stuff.
And this was the game written on the unbelievable, edgy premise "...where every conspiracy theory is real." Lol
Edit: lol weird ratio. Okay maybe I was a clumsy communicator there, I meant "How sad is it that my first thought was a Deus Ex monologue perfectly fitting with our current times, but we don't even have sweet nanotech".
Also, that game's premise was trying to be just a little bit dystopianly-ridiculous, and it's now considered prophetic.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
MonkeMischief@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 1y
Ah, you got me. 😂
Okay my turn, since I mentioned it. Hahaha
Legge@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Definitely some greed. One grocery store here charges 50% more than the other just because (imagine: it's a Kroger owned store). Neither store is a discount or lower-end store either. Ridiculous.
And coincidentally (or no really coincidentally at all), OP's pic looks like a Kroger owned store too based on the price tag and the inconvenience sticker. Shocker that they'd charge that price 🙄
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
Why not both?
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 1y
Indeed!
TheOakTree@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Yes.
SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
Like most things, it's a mix of factors. If there's a culling there will be less supply which will result in higher prices temporarily. But the few companies that control production are kinda just taking their time in lowering the prices once the supply issues are resolved. So there's a real issue, but there's also greed making it worse than it should be.
roguetrick@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
In this case it's a commodity so that's actually hard to do.
shortrounddev@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 1y
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 1y
Ok thanks.
I don’t think corporate greed is a poor excuse though.
All prices in the UK have gone up by substantial amounts over the last 5 years. While at the same time these massive corporations have recorded record profits.
If the price increases were purely inflation then it would stand to reason that profits wouldn’t have gone up so much. Clearly they’ve used inflation as an excuse to squeeze consumers as much as possible.
I am talking generally here and not specifically about eggs.
shortrounddev@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 1y
Oh you’re misunderstanding me. I’m not saying corporations started being greedy over the last 5 years. I’m saying that they turned up the dial as far as they could. They’ve always been greedy.
By greedy I mean they have to extra t value for shareholders. Then you have pensions, UK at least, tied to the stock market making it almost impossible to change the system due to the fact we need to account for the elderly and we refuse to increase taxes by a substantial amount on obscene wealth.
frog_brawler@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
shortrounddev@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 1y
TheTurner@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y
In Germany, you can't even buy eggs from cage farming anymore.
Frostbeard@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Not necessarily better. My uni did experiments to see how far a chicken moved after being put in a free range pen, and they hardly move. Such pens are large and contain hundreds if not 1000s of chickens. (We tend to imagine free range as 15 hens in a flock, but that is miles away from the truth) Hypothesis was that since Chicken are flock animals they get stressed in these pens and the weaker ones now are on the outside of multiple flocks leading to more stress and feather picking as dominance never really are settled. Roomy cages with proper perches and such paradoxically might be "better" for industrially farmed chicken.
Tinks@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
The terminology on the various bird conditions is frustrating and confusing. Cage free can effectively be exactly what you described - entirely indoors, crammed in and miserable, but not in cages. Free Range birds must have "access to the outdoors" but that can be as small as a hole they can stick their head out of but not go through. It's honestly ridiculous.
If you buy grocery store eggs, I would recommend looking for the Certified Humane stamp on eggs and other farm products and meats. While the conditions they require are still far from idyllic, they are better than the general standards most livestock exist in. For chickens, pasture raised certified humane is a good option as birds must be let fully outside into the pasture, must have a minimum of 10 square meters per bird when out there, and must be allowed out for a minimum of 6 hours per day. At least in these conditions, they can reasonably be birds and touch grass. There are a lot of other requirements as well, including perches and dust baths. Ideally if you can afford the extra couple of dollars, these are good companies to support. (There are also other 3rd party companies that certify pasture raised eggs, the Certified Humane one is just most common in my area).
Frostbeard@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
English is not my first language so sorry for being unclear. I don't think we have that option in Norway. I just pick ecological as that is sort of similar. But it that is just being able to look outside or actually walk outside I don't know.
Edit: checked with my veterinarian wife. The eggs we buy are certified like that humane option
Tinks@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Your English is fantastic and you have no reason to apologize! I should apologize for assuming you were from the USA and not even bothering to state that my comments were. So sorry for that and the confusion caused! Sounds like both of our countries have confusing chicken standards though!
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
~~ Upstate NY and a dozen is between 8-9 dollars last I looked. ~~
I apologize, that's the 18 pack. I was reminded we got charged the 18 pack price but only had a 12. That was a four hour later going over the receipt find. This was a Price Chopper outside of Albany.
TachyonTele@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Where in upstate? They're $4 everywhere Ive seen them.
Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1y
Updated.
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Yep I'm near Delaware so we have all the chicken farms at least near us. And our eggs are $4.5 for a dozen.
Bronzebeard@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
We got cage free organic at 6.19/dozen here in Ohio. This seems a localized high
scottywh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Colorado law only allows for cage free eggs as of January 1st of this year and had mostly already been all that's available here prior to this bird flu epidemic for maybe 6ish months and prices were not increased significantly as a result.
Regardless, this picture represents an extreme and not the least expensive eggs available at this particular store.
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 13 pts · 1y
They’re $8.75 for 12 at Aldi in CA. Or if you’re a real saver, 60 for under $45!
pivot_root@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
8.75/12 = $0.73 per egg.
45/60 = $0.75 per egg.
Incredible! With bulk purchasing, I can pay an extra $0.02 per egg.
surge_1@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 1y
Maeve@kbin.earth · 2 pts · 1y
Jesus that's a huge difference in the Aldi price nearest me (about an hour by car).
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y
Yeah, you know shit is fucked when eggs are over $8/dozen at Aldi!
piranhaconda@mander.xyz · 13 pts · 1y
I was wondering how many of my Denver neighbors were on lemmy. This is not the way I wanted to find them...
Irelephant@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y
Sorry to disappoint, i'm not from Denver. I stole the image from reddit. https://old.reddit.com/r/FluentInFinance/comments/1ibgmua/today_in_denver_1099_for_one_dozen_eggs_eggs_used/
little_beefy@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Howdy! Denverish over here.
Jonnynny@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 1y
MistakenBear32@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 1y
In Colorado Springs, I'm seeing Eggland's Best at $6.29 and Simple Truth "Kipster Large" eggs currently on sale at $4.99 per dozen, respectively, at King Soopers.
While these prices are certainly high compared to what we're used to, it's definitely not been nearly as outrageous as what I'm seeing online.
I can't imagine the prices and selection are actually significantly different at the same chain an hour away in Denver.
Jonnynny@lemm.ee · 0 pts · 1y
MistakenBear32@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 1y
So could you... These are the same exact prices that I mentioned in my last comment in their app from the Nine Mile Soopers location in Denver.
Jonnynny@lemm.ee · 0 pts · 1y
MistakenBear32@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 1y
I see...
So your point is just that convenience costs more? I don't think that's really any kind of news flash for most people.
Whatever dude.... I'm not going to waste any more of my time to prove it but I'd bet that the exact same options are actually available at the location you shared screenshots from, as well.
Anyway, have a good one.
wrekone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 1y
Everyone trying to call bullshit, but my local discount market is selling eggs for $10.99 a dozen too. Not organic. Probably not even free range. Just the same cheap eggs as usual, but 3x the price.
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 1y
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
Conservatives don't care. They'll go into debt for Daddy Trump. That's what cultists do for a cult leader.
TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 1y
Wonder how long this has to keep up for more products to start becoming accidentally vegan due to having to avoid eggs as they're too volatile.
AA5B@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
Most groceries here don’t post prices online, but …..
Boston Metro West - Amazon Fresh eggs from “Whole Foods”, not the cheapest grocery, $4.49/doz grade a large brown. My regular grocery is much cheaper than “Whole Paycheck” for most things.
No taxes on food here, although Amazon Fresh has a delivery charge.
I imagine the huge disparity of prices is that culling due to bird flu must be regional and our chickens must not be infected yet
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
Yeah, these are specialty farm eggs, cage free, and brown. They’re also stacked in with the organic eggs. They probably command a markup without the price increases from bird flu. This is also *probably* some trendier grocery store OP is shopping at.
Our “fancy” grocery store has a dozen cage free large brown eggs for $5.49, so either this is a local issue in Denver or OP is posting some BS engagement bait.
Just snapped this pic from our store’s online shopping app.
settxy@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1y
I'm in Denver as well, you can't find regular eggs in stock. The only thing I can find is the cage-free/brown egg stuff. So this price isn't too far off (especially for King Soopers (Kroger). I've seen price tags for as low as $5.50, but never in stock (this was at Trader Joe's).
I go to a local grocery store, end of last year a dozen eggs could be had on special (pretty regularly) for $1. I spent $4.50 for a half-dozen on sale... ($9/dozen). It came with a card that said Jubilant Julie is the bird of the month, LMAO. This was the cheapest option, including sold-out stuff.
My recommendation to OP is stop shopping at King Soopers and Safeway. Shop around, try out Sprouts, Trader Joe's, Target, etc. Or, better yet, find a local grocery store (Brother's Market, Max Market, Clark's Market, Sun Market, Syracuse Market to name a few). Not only will it probably be a better product for the same/less price, but you'll support a local business and you won't have to wait in line for 10+ soul-crushing minutes.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Isn’t Kroger the one that got in trouble for “surge pricing”? Basically corporate whitewashing of price gouging. They also switched to e-price tags that would let them more quickly change prices.
Edit: yes those greedy f’ks did price gouge.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/kroger-executive-admits-company-gouged-prices-above-inflation/ar-AA1pBoLi
SoJB@lemmy.ml · -7 pts · 1y
$11.99 per dozen for regular eggs at a CA Trader Joe’s.
Clown.
damnedfurry@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
You're lying.
Did you think nobody was going to check? lol
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
You are both posting anecdotes, essentially.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 1y
No, this is objective, not a “story”. At this time these are the actual prices for the eggs at my location at a store with historically higher prices. I qualified my assertion with facts. If you want, I will dig up more egg prices to create an unscientific average to prove that egg prices are not insane here. However, OP has offered no qualifications for the store or the farm. That’s a “story” left up to the reader to infer all egg prices are high in Denver.
As a matter of fact, here you go:
Local Price Chopper:
Local ShopRite:
I’m sure I could find expensive eggs for engagement bait.
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I get that, but regional egg prices aren't directly comparable without adjusting for the cost of living. I could prove eggs in my area cost a dollar but that gives you no info unless I say they used to cost 10 cents.
I'm not admonishing you, just saying you are both right basically
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I live outside a major metropolitan city for context in what many would view as an “expensive State.” CoL is not cheap.
That said, your second choice of “regional” is far more apropos than “anecdotal.”
elephantium@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Your post prompted me to check -- at the "fancy" grocery store in town, I can get a dozen eggs for about $5. Same price at Aldi. Looking at Target, it's about $4.20.
Wait, what? I usually expect Target to be more expensive than other options in the area! Strange times.
MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Egg colour is down to genetics - some breeds, eg leghorn, lay white eggs. Others lay various shades of brown. It's what's inside that counts, and that depends a lot on what you feed a chicken.
Monstrosity@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Where I live, a city in the PNW, Fred Meyer (Kroger) cheap ass eggs are around $7. $7.50 at Safeway. Even Winco and Trader Joe's eggs are around $5/6 a dozen.
I'm not sure where you live, but I'm guessing it's less densely populated or has easier access to diary farms.
Or you shop online for food, which, no, I'm not doing that.
Phantom_Engineer@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y
The latter. Nobody ever posts the store brand eggs and talks price about those.
Agent641@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
They will have security tags in them soon
rayyy@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 1y
Come on, it's only 92 cents apiece. It was $6.99 for two dozen under Biden. Do the math folks.
Maeve@kbin.earth · 10 pts · 1y
They're $7/dozen here, but Aldi has cruelty guaranteed eggs for $2.77, limit 2 dozen. I don't have Aldi near me but was at one within the last week.
damnedfurry@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Uh...
kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com · 10 pts · 1y
£3.15($3.90) at Tesco in the UK btw
Vinstaal0@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Even worse when you consider this is without tax and the compareisons are made to prices without tax. To be fair the rest of the world doesn't threat their eggs so they need to be refrigerated like these US eggs need to be, which also costs money.
styxem@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 1y
Food is not taxed in the US. At least in my state.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y
What state doesn't have tax at the checkout?
ManOMorphos@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
In my state, prepared foods are generally taxed while produce, canned goods, dairy, and many others are not. The system is confusing enough that hardly anyone knows what's taxable or not, so they rely on the store systems to do it for them.
Tiger@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y
Not on food, they don’t (most places in the US, as far as I know, right?)
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 1y
Huh, i am not that observant i guess. Just pulled out a receipt and you're right. No tax on the groceries.
scottywh@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Many US states do tax unprepared food... Some at a different rate than other goods, but not all.
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 1y
That is not the norm.I was wrong. 18 states tax [groceries](https://youtu.be/n9yBXi-ytwM r ).
Prob NSFW link
match@pawb.social · 9 pts · 1y
new innovation in capitalism! 4-pack of eggs. costs what a dozen used to
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 1y
Slovene@feddit.nl · 11 pts · 1y
Illeggals
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
As soon as the farms run out of illegals to exploit, the price of eggs might go up to 10.99 per egg, though...
TseseJuer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
na all the true Americans will just snatch up those jobs and prices will drop
Whitebrow@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
I, for one, am excited for the true Americans to start laying eggs.
Doolbs@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
They're cage free/organic. Those are always more expensive.
gitamar@feddit.org · 8 pts · 1y
Wow, food in Germany is indeed cheap.
Current prices: 0,34€ per egg for organic eggs, 0,20€ per egg for a lower grade (Bodenhaltung)
uis@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
I would like to see mineral eggs.
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
You mean Rocks? 🤣
uis@lemm.ee · -1 pts · 1y
Maud Pie: "Synopsis, this is my pet Boulder. Boulder, meet Synopsis."
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Got a 18 pack from Penny the other day for about 3 or 4 euro. Only thing I miss about American grocery stores are the variety but fuck all that if you can't afford the majority of it
AA5B@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
We’re only talking eggs here, this is not an indicator of general inflation.
We had that too so prices are higher over say five years, but as far as I know, general inflation is under control. The biggest problem there is all the price increases blamed on “global supply chain disruption” from a couple years back: why haven’t they gone away since the disruption has?
remon@ani.social · 1 pts · 1y
Just over the border in Switzerland I've got 0,79€ per egg (0,75€ pr egg in a 12 pack). But that's still cheaper than OP.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
And if you are an independent egg vendor you have to submit a 1099 form with your taxes. Coincidence?
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y
It'll be even more soon...
Raiderkev@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
I just paid like $11 for 18 in the bay area and I thought that was bad. Good thing Trump has a concept of a plan to take care of us soon tho.
wisely@feddit.org · 7 pts · 1y
Looks like I need to fly out to Denver to save some money on eggs.
Elrecoal19_0@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
Y'all need "I did that" Trump stickers like the ones that were put next to gas pumps with Biden
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
$4-6/doz in NC.
BradleyUffner@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
But those come with a free cage, that's extra value!
ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 1y
I regret not making friends with the neighbors who owned chickens. They're sitting on bird gold.
RunawayFixer@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
The cheapest I can find atm are 2.1 euros for a 12 pack of store brand eggs, 0.175 per egg. Eu.
Edit to add: imo the only relevant comparison is comparing the cheapest with the cheapest available chicken eggs. If you add in branding, location, ... Then you're no longer comparing eggs, but rather cost of living & marketing.
2nd edit: perchery, medium size.
bstix@feddit.dk · 2 pts · 1y
The cheapest available option can differ a lot due to different animal welfare regulations. Caged eggs are the cheapest but they already are or will soon be unavailable in Europe and a few states in America.
The second cheapest is perchery eggs, which is probably available everywhere, so it'd be better fora direct comparison even if the specific regulations differ somewhat.
RunawayFixer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Caged is already no longer available where I live, so the price I gave is for perchery eggs, medium sized. I would have added that it was for perchery, but I only learned that word 5 minutes ago from your post ;). In the last few years when caged eggs were available, a 6 pack of perchery eggs usually was the same or almost the same price as caged. I remember the price difference being so insignificant that I always bought perchery.
But there's bound to be so many regulatory differences, that probably even the perchery label will have different rules. And some of those labels are pretty empty. So imo for a simple comparison, it's still best to just compare cheapest with cheapest of the same size and ignore labelling/marketing.
vk6flab@lemmy.radio · 6 pts · 1y
In Australia they're not available at all. This is at Woolworths supermarket:
shoulderoforion@fedia.io · 3 pts · 1y
they culled because of the bird flu too?
vk6flab@lemmy.radio · 4 pts · 1y
It appears to be multifactorial:
NineMileTower@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Due to AI?
Rezbit@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Avian Influenza I think
vk6flab@lemmy.radio · 2 pts · 1y
Yup
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 1y
Time to start raising chickens.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Already started. We have a coop about ready, my wife has experience, we're semi-rural, about set. Only thing, I want them free range and I'm not sure about the wildlife.
Haven't seen a fox in ages. The local coyotes don't come in here, yet, but a massive new development is pushing them out of their comfort zone. Plenty of raptors it seems. But hell, I can afford everything but a ton of fencing, of any kind.
What to do? Just run out with the 20-gauge and start blasting at 3AM when shit goes sideways?!
I need to post on the chicken comm.
ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y
My primary plan is to hatch extra and expect some losses. Wildlife needs to eat, too, and I can’t fault it for doing so, even if it’s inconvenient for me.
However I’ll also employ roosters, which are annoying but do great protecting the flock (even sacrificing themselves to save their ladies). If you can’t/won’t have roosters for whatever reason, a couple geese will help as well, or you can add them to the roostered flock for extra protection, I believe.
Personally, the only way I’d ever shoot something going after my flock would be if it’s a threat to the enclosed run/coop where they stay at night and in bad weather. Or if they were habitual about raiding my flock.
But chickens should be in a coop at night so as long as you have one critters can’t get into, you probably won’t have too many losses.
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y
Peacocks can chase off predators.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
FYI eggs from backyard chickens have a higher level of lead in them. On account of cities being polluted with leaded gasoline for decades. Fun times.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Unleaded gas became standard in the 70s. If you live in a dense city that was built 40+ years ago and eat eggs daily and are a small child, you may reach the non-recomended intake amount, barely.
Most people with a backyard big enough for chickens don't live in the urban areas that had such dense lead exposure anyways
shalafi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
And about nobody is raising chickens in an urban environment.
RBWells@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
We are "uptown" for lack of a better description, not the more expensive part but quite close to downtown and do have a yard, our neighbors keep chickens and it's protected inside the city, you are allowed to raise them and the feral ones are also protected by law, you can't just take them and make Coq au Vin.
Lauchs@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
We have a lot of backyard chicken farms in Vancouver.
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
Suburbs don't really count.
Lauchs@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I'm not talking about the suburbs. I live by Commercial drive, I have neighbours with backyard chickens.
Edit: For those who don't know Vancouver, Commercial drive is about a 15 minute bike ride from the heart of downtown.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
If the suburbs were around in the 80s, they were exposed to the lead.
Jake_Farm@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
Community chickens? Like community gardens.
someguy3@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
A few thoughts on that. Unleaded started in 1975. I'd like to know when it reached 50% of the vehicles but googling doesn't give me that. Assuming 20 years for the entire fleet to turn over, that would give 1985 for 50%. I think you want 25% or less leaded cars until you don't have too much lead in the air, so that goes to about 1990. The pollution didn't end immediately at the city limits, so the burbs that would be built on the next mile or so would still be on polluted land. So I think that gets you to houses built 1995+ to even 2000+ to get to uncontaminated land (depending on how fast your city was growing).
I know around here the houses with decent backyards were built in the 70s to 80s. In the 90s the yards were getting small, and nowadays they are almost nonexistent. So the best suburbs for chickens are 80s and earlier. Which is also the contaminated land.
Last thought is that they keep saying that there is no safe level of lead exposure.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I was thinking Nixon banned it in 1970, but that was paint apparently, it appears the partial bans started in 85 on gas, and complete ban was done under Clinton in 96. I don't know anyone with chickens on a lot smaller than a acre, but maybe that's just a regional thing around me. I can't see how you could have free range chickens on a quarter acre lot, they'd just fly over privacy fences and piss off neighbors Id assume. But maybe three are more people doing that than I knew
someguy3@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
It's less about gas and more about cars. They mandated new cars run on unleaded gas in 1975. While it was technically possible to convert a leaded car to run on unleaded gas, it wasn't done in any substantial numbers. So we had to wait for leaded cars to wear out and be replaced with new cars that ran on unleaded. That's why I said 20 years for the car fleet to turn over.
Backyard chickens depends a lot on local laws, most cities ban them just because. But if a city allows them, afaik you don't need much room.
LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Mine have a 20ftx10ft run that's covered, and I leave the gate open so they can go out when they want and explore the woods behind. It's an acre lot that I just rent half the duplex. Neighbors on all sides like them. They all get free eggs. One neighbor got yelled at by his wife though because he was buying food for them to put over by his truck so theyd come around more and hang out, which means of course they are more likely to shit near where they park there vehicles. obligatory forest chickens:
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y
Bird flu is still an issue
GluWu@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 1y
Thcdenton@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
God i love having chickens
Rodneyck@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
Good! (Said with a condescending vegan tone.)
zephorah@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
I’m finding 18 for $9. Discount groceries. Not Walmart, that place is more expensive post 2020 than dedicated discount grocery stores.
Even so. Eggs priced like meat is going to cause a lot of protein malnutrition going forward.
Loce@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Raw milk will fix that ;)
Loce@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
You should put maga stickers next to the price tag, just to remind the folks :)
GluWu@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 1y
People need to start putting trump "I did this" stickers on everything like the magats were on gas pumps.
SpikesOtherDog@ani.social · 4 pts · 1y
$4 a dozen in Kentucky.
MiDaBa@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y
As long as MAGA doesn't blame Trump or the corporations directly then those corporations will continue to raise prices because higher profits are in their best interest.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
Eventually it becomes cheaper to raise chickens.
Cool_Name@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y
Laughs in vegan
noxypaws@pawb.social · 6 pts · 1y
I hope Just Egg gains some new customers from all this. Really good stuff!
lnxtx@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 1y
How much it costs?
noxypaws@pawb.social · 3 pts · 1y
I wanna say five or six bucks for a bottle that probably makes about the same as a dozen eggs, might be a little more now tho
ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
So a dollar more than a banana
elephantium@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
How much can it cost, Michael?
someguy3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Closing in on a buck an egg.
rimu@piefed.social · 1 pts · 1y
That's normal price in my country.
missandry351@lemmings.world · 3 pts · 1y
So in the 🇺🇸 instead of rings people now use eggs to propose to someone ?
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Shame about that flu thing innit
sunzu2@thebrainbin.org · 2 pts · 1y
CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work · 2 pts · 1y
Today, I paid $7.79 for a dozen, extra large, white, store brand eggs here in New Jersey.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net · 2 pts · 1y
"Sorry for the inconvenience"
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Should have gotten the small caged eggs.
frickineh@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1y
Can't. Eggs have to be cage free in CO since January 1st. The law passed 2 years ago, so of course egg companies are acting like they couldn't possibly have prepared for it to take effect. The plus side (for me and like 5 other people) is that this makes the vegan egg alternative seem WAY more reasonably priced these days.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y
Its such a too-little too-late maneuver. If closed coops hadn't been these giant petri dishes for disease over the last thirty years, maybe we wouldn't have mutated a strain of H5N1 that was so virulent. Now we're switching to free range just in time for our sickened flocks to infect the wild migratory fowl that pass through.
Only thing to do is... checks latest EO... defund all public health and safety measures against infection and transmission.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
I was not being serious.
Buelldozer@lemmy.today · 0 pts · 1y
I can buy an 18 pack of those exact same eggs here in Central Wyoming for 8.87. That's right, I get 6 more of the exact same eggs for $2 less.
Denver is stupid.
frickineh@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Yes, but then you have to live in central Wyoming, which is a trade off that's only worth it for some people
_stranger_@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
And you have to brag about it on the internet because no one else lives in central Wyoming.
NielsBohron@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
12.99 at my tourist town in CA
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y
I am afraid to ask the price of the Vital Farms eggs.
PS: $6.49 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Etterra@discuss.online · 2 pts · 1y
You can get 18 eggs for that much in Chicagoland.
bhamlin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Your chickens need to support their weed habit somehow...
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y
Chicken shit.
absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz · 1 pts · 1y
Wow, translated to NZD that is that is like $19.50. Current egg prices here are $5 for size 6 and around $6.50 for size 7.
Saltycracker@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 1y
I brought some yesterday for 3 dollars
PolyLlamaRous@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 1y
Eggs are now 33$ in Denver guys!!
Na... Just kidding... We don't do click bait here. And eggs aren't really 10$ a dozen most anywhere.
PunnyName@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 1y
Cage free eggs are already some of the most expensive eggs anyway.
match@pawb.social · 2 pts · 1y
Colorado banned non-cage-free eggs statewide a few years back
thisguy1092@lemmy.world · -10 pts · 1y
Love how everyone blames trump for this when egg prices were way up before he was in office.
teletext@reddthat.com · 15 pts · 1y
ohshittheyknow@lemmynsfw.com · 4 pts · 1y
It's both.
thisguy1092@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 1y
lol. It’s only been 11 days of his presidency
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
You mean he can ban transgender, eliminate DEI, fire thousands of people, withdraw from multiple treaties, and start trade wars; but he can't bring down the price of eggs day one.
Sounds like you just making excuses because you fantasize about gargling his orange eggs in your mouth.
thisguy1092@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 1y
Getting rid of pointless jobs, genders, and identities. All in one day? Damn that’s impressive work
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
Still wondering why he can't address his actual campaign promises and bring the price of groceries down. Where is that executive order? Oh that is right he and his cabal of tards can't do even the one thing that actually got them elected.
thisguy1092@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 1y
lol. That was Kamala’s promise but good try loser
frunch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
Sure it was https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/economy/grocery-prices-inflation-trump-interview/index.html
JoShmoe@ani.social · -12 pts · 1y
Its just packaged chicken cum. No big deal.
nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 1y
I was aware the USA has some educational troubles, but either you are trolling or joking or these troubles are much more serious than I anticipated.
JoShmoe@ani.social · 1 pts · 1y
Yeah dude
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Uhh that is only if they are fertilized. It is really just a packaged chicken period.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -13 pts · 1y
Awesome. Carnists gonna be crying about paying the real price for destroying the planet.