What is it with eggs? People are posting videos of shoppers dragging out huge stacks of egg cartons. My Twitter comments are filled with references to eggs. What’s happening? Are there supposed to be egg shortages? There are none where I live, and prices have improved. Is there a meme I missed?
I feel like a teenager who broke her leg and missed a huge round of school drama.
Bird flu—> USDA ordered slaughter of millions of hens—> shortage —-> eggs more expensive than usual.
People are either overblowing it, or prices are hugely variable depending on what part of the country you’re in. Prices are up by about 30% here, no more. It happens every few years, it’ll go back down in a few months when the next batch of chicks has matured. We usually pay $15 for a box of 60, and currently it’s $20 for the same box. (shrugs). And I remember the exact same thing happening, with the same prices, within the last 3 years. Public memory is very short.
People get hyped about whatever gets hyped at them. Probably some very telling social marker in there, whether you get hyped about cryptocurrency or slap bracelets or the price of eggs…
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This is my viewpoint from down south. Eggs are one of the few items that I knew the price for as it had stayed the same all my life. A dozen grade A large eggs was roughly $1.50, and 6 eggs of the same, was roughly $0.79. This was in 2019 early 2020. I checked yesterday and the same dozen eggs were roughly $5, and the 6 eggs was roughly $3.
These prices have not come down since the start of 2020. Since the start of 2020, I have seen more or less every single year, throw away or single mention articles about meat herds being slaughtered due to “insert disease here”, or the chickens set aside for egg production being culled due to “insert disease here.”
I have lost count of the number of one off articles since 2020 about mysterious fires at food processing plants, cow farts causing wildfires burning down a milking facility in TX, diseases requiring massive chunks of the meat herds, meat birds, or egg laying chickens to be put down and destroyed.
None of these stay in the news long, they are there for a day or two and vanish. These articles are not just here in the US, but I have seen them in Europe and occasionally popping up in other countries as well.
The price you see on the food is artificial. It should be up slightly due to logistical issues, but the food supply itself is being artificially reduced, causing a spike in prices.
The reason people are harping on the eggs, is that it was something that doesn’t normally change much or very fast. So to see it jump massively in price is something people can point to and say I know your gaslighting me, because this just does not happen.
Oh and for those interested, at the start of 2023, the number of said events in the US and Canada were over 200 mysterious fires, explosions, and cullings due to “insert disease here.” If that number was between 5 and 15 it would be well not exactly normal, but things happen. Over 200 in three years is well past normal and into deliberate. That was also a year and change ago, so who even knows what that number is at now.
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