Oh boy. $8/dozen eggs here we come.
this post was submitted on 03 Apr 2024
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At the very least, an excuse to jack up the prices...
"Do not worry, valued customers. This temporary price increase will remain in place after things go back to normal."
"The continued sales during the temporary price increase has proved that the market can handle a price increase."-A CEO somewhere
Fwiw, egg prices did come down after the last shortage..... But not back down to pre-shortage levels.
It looks like egg sellers took a page out of airline companies. Jack up the price. There is outrage. Lower prices a few weeks apart until it's at a point that is larger than when you started but people seem to be okay with.
Oh boy, ~~Obama's~~ Biden's fault
I talk about how human population is a fundamental problem and get pushback from people saying we can make enough food, everyone needs to be vegan and we all live in cities with buses etc. But this ignores many problems, and this is a perfect example.
It's impossible to feed 8 billion people without everyone going vegan (which simply isn't going to happen) or industrial agriculture treating animals like objects.
While I believe I have the right as a living being that nature evolved into an omnivore to take the life of another conscious being for food, I don't believe we as a society are entitled to abuse another species of conscious beings and waste their lives as will certainly end up being done here to cull the flock.
Well said. Factory farming is a crime against nature.
I'm still an omnivore, but am at least 50-60% vegetarian or vegan. I used to eat meat every day, but now it's about once a week, although I do often have eggs or milk on a daily basis. It's not from a philosophical point of view, but instead just simply that I don't need to eat meat very often. I love tofu, beans, potatoes, and all these other vegetables (a lot of which I grow myself in my garden) using compost from our pile. It's not hard to do, and if you work on it daily for 20 minutes at a time, it's easy to keep up with.
There's so much delicious vegetarian and vegan food.
I belong to several chicken groups on other social platforms, and the number of people who view this as part of a giant conspiracy is wild. Nope, this cannot possibly be the consequences of the known spreading mechanisms of well documented disease in a factory farm setting. It is clearly an attempt to control the populace through a narrative of limited food supply. Or it is a justification to release the next phase of the scamdemic. Or it is an initial cull to drive up prices and make more money by - checks notes - refusing to sell eggs.
I agree the corporations are out to take us over the coals and that large scale government has aspects that should not be trusted but still, people go from zero to pedophiles in pizza basements really fast.
It's not like disease among chickens is a new thing. It's just that the two or three producers that control almost the entire market have found that if they announce that a diseased chicken exists then they can jack up the prices multiple times over. People are right to be paranoid because these egg producers are taking advantage of anything they can to jack up prices far more than what any disease costs them. I refuse to pay $2+ for a dozen eggs, but that looks like the new minimum price when just a few years ago it was less than $1. Turns out, voting with my wallet doesn't work. Meanwhile officials pretend that inflation has only been around 20% since 2020.
So you just don't buy eggs anymore?
Now would be a good time to test a vaccine on chickens. We’re gonna need it later for humans at this rate.
Can't wait to hear about all the 5G chickens are getting...
Oh boy, another excuse to jack up egg prices.
Buy local. Go vegan.
Vegan? Yeah no hard pass.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The largest producer of fresh eggs in the U.S. said Tuesday it had temporarily halted production at a Texas plant after bird flu was found in chickens, and officials said the virus had also been detected at a poultry facility in Michigan.
Ridgeland, Mississippi-based Cal-Maine Foods, Inc. said in a statement that approximately 1.6 million laying hens and 337,000 pullets, about 3.6% of its total flock, were destroyed after the infection, avian influenza, was found at a facility in Parmer County, Texas.
“The Company continues to work closely with federal, state and local government officials and focused industry groups to mitigate the risk of future outbreaks and effectively manage the response,” the statement said.
The announcement by Cal-Maine comes a day after state health officials said a person had been diagnosed with bird flu after being in contact with cows presumed to be infected, and that the risk to the public remains low.
The human case in Texas marks the first known instance globally of a person catching this version of bird flu from a mammal, federal health officials said.
A dairy herd in Idaho has been added to the list after federal agriculture officials confirmed the detection of bird flu in them, according to a Tuesday press release from the USDA.
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Now if I could just understand why a Mississippi based company (with a big facility in Texas) is called "Cal-Maine"? Could it be because I'm not the only one who doesn't trust Mississippi food standards?
Goddamnit, I can't handle another eggflation period
How is this world news? Like it is definitely news but I cant see how it impacts us globally?
I bet China finding a new virus back in 2019 didn't affect the world either.
That was a new virus, this isnt. But your point stands.
Not world news… yet
Yeah fair enough I actually missed that being relevant