Summary

Egg prices in the U.S. have reached a record high of $4.95 per dozen amid a severe bird flu outbreak that has led to the culling of millions of egg-laying chickens.

The shortage is compounded by rising feed, fuel, and labor costs, as well as increased demand and stricter cage-free regulations in several states.

Consumers face empty shelves, surcharges, and limited availability, with some areas pricing cartons at $10 or more.

Prices are expected to continue rising, especially with Easter demand.

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    BUT Trump said he would lower prices on day 1! I don’t get it, why would he lie?

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      yea…fucking hilarious how maga sheep all of a sudden seemed to shut the fuck up about egg prices

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        I was expecting a whole raft of letters and op-eds in my local corporate rag (Denver Post) that more or less spew the same old “give him a chance to pivot to being presidential, you guyyyyyyzzzzzz” and “we had to put up with Biden when he was in office and you didn’t see US protesting like this [1]!!! boo hoo hoo” type of stuff for the next several weeks months after he took power. I don’t recall seeing too many of these. Weird.

        [1] The fact that these assholes could act like they had to “put up with” Biden when neither Biden or anyone in his administration was trying to target entire demographics and cause “pain” to the American people, etc…completely unlike what donvict is doing. Nevermind that they can sit there and gaslight about not protesting. Protesting is a completely valid and highly American and patriotic tradition - what THEY fucking did when they lost was to throw an insurrection that was run in parallel with a fucking coup attempt.

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        They are all now experts on the effects of culling chickens for bird flu.

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            They might remain real things right up until the moment they have to change one IOTA of their own lives, or if they think it’s making donvict/fElon look bad in some way.

            I will never forget how many younger right-leaning/red-pilled types did this collective shrug about Covid, by the way: “that’s something that only impacts old people who just need to die anyway and fat people and/or diabetics, and that’s their own fault, so I should not have to adapt one little bit”. Many of these people in the same generations that a lot of people are telling me are soooo much better than every other generation that ever existed.

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        Make sure at every opportunity that you call everyone of those fuckers a hypocrite, and if you don’t have to maintain any sort of relationship with them, also make sure they know how much of a cunt they are too.

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      Given the cost of everything including stickers, maybe it might be good to have a printout of this and take it everywhere, then take an image with this held up next to the prices.

      Also, in Bronzo the Clown’s America, I might get deported or sent to Gitmo over defacing some gas pump with…stickers.

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    You don’t need eggs, eat something else. Better for chickens, biodiversity and the climate as well

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      Excellent whataboutism 👌

      “As a vegan, this issue doesn’t affect me in any way, so it shouldn’t affect you either💅”

      Let them eat quinoa amirite

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        Nah, I’d like to turn that around. It is not necessary for you to eat eggs, so it shouldn’t affect you, same as it doesn’t affect me. More inclusive, you know? Together towards a better world.

        I’d prefer some salted nuts and kidney beans in my enchilada, quinoa is a bit overrated tbh.

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      Only Democrats’ shadowy cabal control the economy like this, it’s a known fact from Fox News!

      Every day Obama wakes up before every American, and personally draws on the price tags of the things a Republican was craving that day with a sharpie, to ensure they yelled at a store clerk.

      Biden personally loves to go to a gas station and round up to the nearest dollar, but at Chevron stations it’s the nearest dollar plus 13 cents.

      Hilary Clinton uses space lasers to make streaming services remove content and increase the cost.

      spoiler

      This was fun to just go off and write, have the Republicans considered making a weird sci-fi world to role play in, instead of ruining the world?

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    Just yesterday my friend texted that his local bodega in the Bronx is selling $1 loosies or $12/dozen. Fucking egg loosies. What’s next? Egg dealers on Gun Hill?

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      Third world country. Here in Russia it is ten times cheaper. And then we have some healthcare.

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    Eggs at $5.00 a dozen: price per unit, 41.7 cents.

    50 Wincester 9 mm FMJ rounds are $14.99. Price per unit, a bit under 30 cents.

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    Neighborhood chicken lady went from $2 to $3 a dozen due to the price increase of chicken feed. Hopefully her chickens won’t be affected, mostly for her & her family’s sake.

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    So are people treating this as a generalized sign of inflation, or are people actually worried about eggs?

    Because if you’re treating this as a gauge of inflation, it’s a bad one, as there’s a bird flu outbreak greatly affecting egg prices.

    And if it’s just concern about eggs… I don’t get it. I mean, I think our household eats a lot of eggs, but a lot is like 2-3 dozen a week. And if eggs cost $2 more than usual, well, that’s $6 a week. Meh? I doubt this is breaking the bank for many people.

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      I think it’s a meme at this point, because some people said they voted for trump due to egg prices and he might have promised to reduce them on day one.

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        He promised to reduce grocery prices on day 1, and end the war in Ukraine after winning the election

        “Known liar lies” could just be the headline every day with him

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      Eggs are staple like bread or milk. It’s a cheap source of protein and when the price goes up the people who feel it the most are the ones that are most sensitive to grocery prices. So yes, to you it might not seem like a lot, but to someone who’s barely able to afford groceries it’s life changing.

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    Amusingly, the pasture raised eggs are now the same price as the regular eggs at Aldi.

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      I have a coworker who keeps about 250 chickens at her house and sells the brown eggs for $5 a dozen. Meanwhile, a dozen white eggs at Shop-Rite are $10.

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          Yeah. Generally, brown is more expensive than white, organic is more expensive than non-organic, free-range is more expensive than caged etc. The current situation has rendered everything fucking expensive, though.

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            Hmm - here in England the colour of an egg doesn’t make any difference to its price, or to its taste. But yeah, organic and free range usually cost more. Larger eggs cost more too. I’ve not checked the exchange rate but I’d say it costs about $6 for a dozen free range eggs.

            I’d love to keep hens myself but it’s not feasible. I have friends who live on a farm where the chickens just kind of wander about and I swear their eggs taste better than shop bought.