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A Dozen Eggs Now Cost More Than A Pound Of Beef. Here’s Why.
Daily Wire ^ | FEBRUARY 16, 2023 | Joseph Curl

Posted on 02/16/2023 11:28:51 AM PST by Red Badger

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1 posted on 02/16/2023 11:28:51 AM PST by Red Badger
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In my opinion, the key reason is California imposed its law on egg producers. Our eggs, coming from California, went up from $0.97 to around $5.00. Over the past year eggs everywhere are going up to the same since that worked so well for California. /s


2 posted on 02/16/2023 11:31:05 AM PST by Reno89519 (DeSantis or Sanders, Anyone But Trump in 2024. Time for Trump to Stand Aside and Retire.)
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“To date, about 5.76 million birds have been depopulated due to HPAI and 43.78 million have been commercial layers..”

That sentence will make sense if one shifts one of the decimals one decimal place—the question is, which one?


3 posted on 02/16/2023 11:31:53 AM PST by Hieronymus
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As someone who used to have family in the chicken business (both eggs and broilers), the reason they shuttered their many chicken houses is because of the extra regulations requiring expensive "comfort" for the chicken. They decided it was time to retire and their grown kids were glad they took up other careers.

I don't know how widespread this is. But if many others did this, then the regulations lowered supply.

4 posted on 02/16/2023 11:32:08 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Reno89519

They can blame everything else under the sun, but the catalyst is California’s law and a bit of greed by everyone else.


5 posted on 02/16/2023 11:32:37 AM PST by Reno89519 (DeSantis or Sanders, Anyone But Trump in 2024. Time for Trump to Stand Aside and Retire.)
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and once prices go up they rarely go back down enough ‘to help the ‘poor’, the people the demonaRATS propose to help.


6 posted on 02/16/2023 11:34:42 AM PST by TribalPrincess2U (D.I.S.T.R.A.C.T.I.O.N.S.)
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Soon restaurants and cafes will demand payment in advance for breakfasts. People will come up short or max out a credit card if they pay after the egg meals.


7 posted on 02/16/2023 11:35:13 AM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Red Badger

I paid $2.98 for a dozen large eggs (admittedly on sale for some reason) and $3.28/lb. for a bottom round roast (day before expire date) just yesterday here in TN. Gotta know where to shop.


8 posted on 02/16/2023 11:36:47 AM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (You can never have enough clamps. Thanks Ben.)
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To: Hieronymus

Good catch.

“Ill take “Worst case scenario” for a thousand, Alex.”


9 posted on 02/16/2023 11:38:41 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: frank ballenger

Breakfast places will have to raise their prices. Same with bakeries.


10 posted on 02/16/2023 11:40:33 AM PST by Texas resident (Who is running our country?)
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To: frank ballenger

Denny’s Grand Slam could put you in the SLAMMER!....................


11 posted on 02/16/2023 11:41:23 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Tell It Right

Years ago I have a conversation with a member of a local egg farming family. He told me that if they had known how quickly real estate was going to rise, they wouldn’t have constructed their million-chicken egg factories (they had several). They would have waited a bit and sold the properties.


12 posted on 02/16/2023 11:42:38 AM PST by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Red Badger

Here in DC area, beef (and all meat) prices went completely haywire since the pandemic. Used to be you could get a decent steak for $7, hamburger for $4, and a bottom round or london broil for about $3. Today, it’s more like $15, $8 and $7


13 posted on 02/16/2023 11:44:02 AM PST by dangus
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That explains the direction they are taking in that remake of the ‘Rawhide” western TV series where Pauly Shore plays the part of Trail Boss Gil Favor and Paris Hilton replaces Clint Eastwood as the Ramrod, and chickens replace the cattle.


14 posted on 02/16/2023 11:46:36 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Red Badger

Denny’s....

Local one closed here.
Noticed the Employee of the Month picture on the wall had a row of numbers across the bottom.


15 posted on 02/16/2023 11:49:55 AM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: frank ballenger

😆


16 posted on 02/16/2023 11:50:41 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

We average about $20-$25 a month plus a lot of table scraps feeding our 12 chickens and 2 ducks, we have eggs all year round and supply a bunch to family also. What the chickens don’t eat, the Goats will, but they get their share also


17 posted on 02/16/2023 11:52:12 AM PST by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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More price increases....

Right. How 40%+ of the electorate say they still support Slow Joe for President?

Eggs go into so much food.

Like gasoline when it went up, added to inflation for anything that is shipped by boat, plane, semi or delivery trucks. Or planted or harvested by machines on farms requiring fuel to work.
As: everything.


18 posted on 02/16/2023 11:53:10 AM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Back in the fifties, a casting director was interviewing Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds for the same part. Neither got hired. He told them they would never make it in Hollywood, and should look for another line of work..........


19 posted on 02/16/2023 11:54:37 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: TribalPrincess2U

eggsactly...


20 posted on 02/16/2023 11:56:32 AM PST by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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