I have bad news for egg lovers. The average national price of a dozen eggs is already $5 thanks to avian flu.¹ But now the USDA forecasts a 41% additional increase through the end of the year:
A year from now you'll probably be paying $7 for a dozen eggs.
¹And possibly for other less forthright reasons as well.
People should just stop eating eggs, that’s the market based solution.
Just like how I plan to never need medical care because it's too expensive! People are always in love with "market-based solutions" until it adversely affects them, I know.
Yes yes--it truly is a tragedy that there are no replacement goods for things like eggs. Eggs are just like "medical care"!
Maybe someday, in some glorious future, mankind will have access to foods that are not chicken eggs. But until then, we all have no choice but to buy and consume exactly the same quantity of eggs no matter the price.
+10!
Frankly, yeah. I notice I now think twice about planning a meal or baking project if it's going to require going out and buying another carton of eggs. So our household has definitely cut back.
Heh. We go through maybe a 12-18 eggs a week for the two of us; eggs going up to seven dollars for a dozen isn't exactly breaking the bank. What's next, people screaming that they're about to be homeless because toothpaste is five dollars a tube? These faux kitchen-table issues strike me as just so much kitchen-sink drama.
Up, up and away...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKkNlwpajNk
That Bidenomics has a long reach.
It is an odd thing to see the price of the eggs most of us buy being the same price as organic free range ones. That's the real constraint the biggest factory egg producers have.
I payed just over 11 dollars for 18 eggs 2 weeks ago. Store brand plain white eggs. It surprised me at the checkout. I usually check before I put anything in my cart.
I paid just over $10 for 18 brown, cage free branded eggs. Weirdly, they were the only ones in the display listed as "cage free." Lots of "organic, vegan fed" -- apparently caged??
This was in Albuquerque, btw.
"Vegan fed"? Why not just become vegan yourself and then you need never buy eggs again?
I guess cows are normally "vegan fed" too.
That's uhh, the price at Safeway the past four months already.
The state WIC limit for eggs is $6 a dozen, I wonder how flexible that is.
Collusion, collusion, collusion.
Interesting. I heard an expert on NPR (either the national or local, not sure which it was) who knowledgeably went through what happened, how many layers were lost (about ten million) how they then needed to disinfect the farms before getting in new chickens, etc. and then estimated that we'd be back to regular production numbers bu "the summer." That doesn't of course account for prices not being gouged of course, and the problem with bird flu is it's easily transmitted so it could happen again at the farms. As with anything, I guess we'll see.
Cheaper eggs was just another lie from Donald Chump.
In Pasadena, California, I have not seen any eggs less than nine bucks a dozen for over a month.
"The average national price of a dozen eggs is already $5 thanks
to avian fluPresident Donald Trump's malfeasance and incompetence."I'm sorry, I don't make the rules, but that's how it works. This is entirely on Trump and Dems should hammer on it relentlessly for the next two years. Eggs are already hitting close to $8/doz at my local market, though I usually get mine from a local farmer who is still charitably charging $6/doz.
Trump's only responsibility is for lying about bringing prices down on day 1. He's no more responsible for egg prices than Biden was.
The president, whoever that may be, is actually not responsible for a lot of things he gets blamed for. Trump accepted responsibility for egg prices by promising to bring them down, and I see no reason to let him off his self-inflicted hook.
He could be directing the FTC to look into anti-competitive practices by egg suppliers that seem to be the primary driver of the cost increase - so yeah, it's his responsibility.
I paid $6 yesterday, but only because I keep getting brainstorms for things that require one egg white.
I'm going force myself to go egg-free after this.
I'm in the same boat as everyone else, but somehow this reminds me of a Monty Python skit with each man claiming his childhood was more deprived than the others'. There was also an old SNL skit where two women were talking about how they'd been mistreated by the state. I think the winner claimed to have been forced to use a toilet in the open in the middle of Red Square.
Okay, in that spirit: The best deal I could get at the Dollar General today was a $1000 carton of 4 eggs, one of which was broken, all of them covered in chicken shit, the sell by date was last October, and I had to agree to go poop in the sweet potato field across the street before they'd let me buy them. And I was the lucky one!
Canada also has bird flu but apparently it isn't such a big factor there and egg prices only rose moderately. That may be because in Canada, hens are raised on smallish farms distributed across the country. In the US, the bulk of eggs come from factory farming operations, and if you wanted to build a better environment for a virus to spread like wildfire and kill hens by the millions . . . well, you couldn't.