Why is everyone so obsessed with eggs? Do people really eat them that often and if so, is it some kind of addiction like coffee or what? Stop paying those prices, stop buying the damn eggs.
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2025
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Eggs are also used in a lot of baked goods. If you're cooking at home and making a lot of things from scratch, eggs are common ingredients. In addition to that they're also an excellent source of protein that doesn't require any forethought or planning to just make in minutes. My husband and I go through a dozen every 7-10 days depending on what I'm making. That's not a ton, but considering most grocery prices are up it's frustrating. I can cut back on a lot of things, and I can make alternative recipes that don't include eggs for a lot of things, but then those things have a different texture, less protein, or can't exist at all. I'm already cooking nearly everything from scratch at home to save money as it is. Not buying eggs is a bigger sacrifice than many realize, especially for someone that loves to bake.
Yep, the only time I buy eggs is if I'm going to be baking things that require them, which I don't do very often. I just get the 6-pack, then any remaining after baking usually sit forgotten in the fridge for weeks and then I'm not sure if they're still edible so they go to waste. 🤷
Cheap protein. Generally the cheapest protein in the store.
Beans are cheaper
And magical fruit
Eggs are interesting because they are generally a very cheap food for what they are. If you can't afford to spend much on food, eggs are generally still within your reach. Without cheap eggs the options for nutrition for people without much money are significantly curtailed.
They also drive news because they have dramatic surges with bird flu, which happens every few years.
Unlike other products, they tend to recover from the surge prices to reset things so the next surge still looks dramatic.
when prices are expected to drop
Keep it up, media. Let's make sure people notice that shit doesn't actually go down.
The real problem will be when the media stops reporting on prices altogether.
Well eggs are going to go down, because there's a specific cause for those to be particularly high right now. It has nothing to do with Biden and the recovery will have nothing to do with Trump, but that will be the timeline, for eggs specifically.
It might come down a bit. Look at all the price hikes since 2019, prices are not going to come down.
Historically price hikes associated with avian flu have seen recovery. Famously have used the pricing data during one such spike while standing in front of eggs that represented the recovery.
Broadly speaking, process are generally going to stay up and get worse, but eggs specifically are likely to come down from current prices.
That's okay, I can wait while the greedy middlemen jerk each other off over the flimsy excuse of avian flu. I refuse to pay over $2/dozen on eggs and I'm being generous with that limit. Would be interesting to understand why the value line of this chart rocketed up so hard while production didn't drop anywhere close to such a dramatic degree:
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Charts_and_Maps/Poultry/eggprvl.php
$2 / dozen?
I pay about $12 / dozen after conversion because I can't imagine a lower price covering cost that allows any decent kind of life for the chickens.
How, after all costs, should $2 / dozen even work outside of the most horrible conditions?
My reference point is based on US prices for regular eggs, probably produced under those horrible conditions. I would pay more for eggs from chickens raised under better conditions, but it's hard to tell if it's actually the case or if it's just marketing BS because of all the loopholes that companies can exploit to qualify while still providing poor conditions.
Ok. Here, at least the higher end options have independent certifications.
Quiz:
Are egg prices high?
Yes
When will they go down?
They won't
Will they go up?
I can nearly gurentee it
Will wages go up to compensate for higher cost of living?
Absolutely not
Will wages somehow go down squeezing the working class more?
Almost certainly
Why is this happening?
Capitalism
The media is just never willing to admit that price gouging is always a great big factor.
At least that don't take egg out of the shell then sell it like to do with the meat by over reporting the weight of meat
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I'm sure putting an anti-vaxxer in charge of health care will solve all problems in no time.
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