Economy Eggs Are Now $8 for 18

[deadshot138]

Ok I'm ready to eat the bugs now. I could live with overpriced meat and everything else but pricing eggs like a delicacy is the last straw. Give me my protein fortified cricket smoothies, please.

https://www.waff.com/2022/12/10/price-eggs-skyrocketing/

 

[Deorum]

It's curious, ain't it. I can't say I haven't noticed the hike, but then again I eat 6-12 of them a day.

 

[deadshot138]

It's curious, ain't it. I can't say I haven't noticed the hike, but then again I eat 6-12 of them a day.

Apparently bird flu is rampant and killing droves of chickens

 

[deadshot138]

It's curious, ain't it. I can't say I haven't noticed the hike, but then again I eat 6-12 of them a day.

Per pound they're probably more than lobster at this point.

 

[Fox by the Sea]

I eat 6-12 of them a day.

WHOA

 

[White Whale]

You will eat the bugs and like it.

 

[deadshot138]

You will eat the bugs and like it.

 

[Topguntrophey]

Highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, is spreading across the U.S., forcing farmers to destroy nearly 280 commercial and backyard flocks in 32 states since January.

"More than 28 million laying hens have been culled as a result of the bird flu — that's nearly 9% of the total flock," according to Karyn Rispoli, an egg market reporter at commodity research firm Urner Barry.

 

[plataoplombo]

Time to buy chickens. A coworker if mine has like 20 chickens and is always bringing in a few dozen eggs for free. Gonna be pissed if he ever stops.

 

[brackis1]

I've paid like 2-3 for a dozen recently?

 

[Scheme]

Still much cheaper and healthier than eating fast food

 

[Deorum]

Per pound they're probably more than lobster at this point.

I'm not even particularly crazy about them as a food item (such as with ribeye cuts of steak), but the nutritional value is sky high and they're a convenient way to bump my protein intake up without ever making me feel lethargic or stuffed.

WHOA

I just bodied a half-dozen 30 mins ago, with 6 bacon strips.

 

[panamaican]

Bird flu is that rampant? I had no idea.

CT derail incoming -- Did Bill Gates run a bird flu pandemic simulation recently? Asking for a friend.

 

[SummerStriker]

Time to buy chickens. A coworker if mine has like 20 chickens and is always bringing in a few dozen eggs for free. Gonna be pissed if he ever stops.

Enjoy your bird flu

 

[Fluffernutter]

Bird flu is no joke. Even backyard/hobbyists have been told to scale back on how much time their chickens are free ranging. Family in the next county over had to cull their hens earlier this year.

 

[HockeyBjj]

Record level of Bird Flu. 49.5 million egg laying chickens have been either killed by the bird flu, or culled to try and stop the spread of said bird flu

Supply goes down, prices go up. Really sucks when it's such a low cost protein. Expensive cuts of beef price go up I don't worry as upper middle class can afford it anyways, but this shit hits everyone and especially the people trying to eat healthy for cheap while avoiding caving and just going to the dollar menu to keep their kids fed.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/spotlights/2022-2023/nearing-record-number-avian-influenza.htm

I don't have time now, but does anyone know what the egg price shot up to in 2015 when we had almost this bad of bird flu? That should help give some context to this

 

[Renard]

You know the 'bird flu' stuff is bullshit right? They give one animal a PCR test - the same fraudulent test they used during Covid to boost cases and churn out false positives by using a CT of 40 - and if it returns a positive result the entire flock is killed despite having no symptoms of illness at all. It's literally a bureaucratic slew-of-hand that allows them to destroy the food supply at their leisure. All they need to do is send a bureaucrat to whichever farm they want to destroy, swab some animals, set the CT to 40 for guaranteed false positives, and then order the entire farm be killed.

 

[Rational Poster]

Record level of Bird Flu. 49.5 million egg laying chickens have been either killed by the bird flu, or culled to try and stop the spread of said bird flu

Supply goes down, prices go up. Really sucks when it's such a low cost protein. Expensive cuts of beef price go up I don't worry as upper middle class can afford it anyways, but this shit hits everyone and especially the people trying to eat healthy for cheap while avoiding caving and just going to the dollar menu to keep their kids fed.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/spotlights/2022-2023/nearing-record-number-avian-influenza.htm

I don't have time now, but does anyone know what the egg price shot up to in 2015 when we had almost this bad of bird flu? That should help give some context to this

Confirmed

 

[HockeyBjj]

Confirmed

2015 peak of $3 into inflation calculator to 2022 = $3.77

So this is right in line. Hopefully like in 2015 there's a hard fall after the bird flu runs it's course as well

 

[HockeyBjj]

You know the 'bird flu' stuff is bullshit right? They give one animal a PCR test - the same fraudulent test they used during Covid to boost cases and churn out false positives by using a CT of 40 - and if it returns a positive result the entire flock is killed despite having no symptoms of illness at all. It's literally a bureaucratic slew-of-hand that allows them to destroy the food supply at their leisure. All they need to do is send a bureaucrat to whichever farm they want to destroy, swab some animals, set the CT to 40 for guaranteed false positives, and then order the entire farm be killed.

Tell me you don't have connections with the farm community without telling me

Nah, I know farmers that lose 20% of their birds suddenly and then test positive for bird flu so they off the rest to try and save the birds they have at a different location. This isn't just otherwise happening on healthy bird farms.