Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks, shrinking the supply of eggs and hiking up prices at grocery stores.
  • aramis87@fedia.io
    941·
    3 days ago

    You can blame bird flu for high egg prices at the grocery store.

    Which is exactly why there were high prices a couple years ago and why they’ve been slow to come down. I want to start seeing little gleeful Trump stickers pointing at the egg prices, going “I did that!”

    • YippieKyeAy@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 days ago

      lol I bought some a few months ago thinking they might not be allowed some way or another after trump was sworn in. Was hoping I wouldn’t have to use them at all and didn’t think I would have to use them this quick.

    • capital_sniff@lemmy.world
      52·
      3 days ago

      Except the child like adults who put those up everywhere are so deep in the con they can’t tell up from down. I mean his butt monkey supporters are actively being grifted by their president via meme coins… I just got a bad feeling that like most other crazy right wing authoritarian movements of the past this one won’t end with his supporters waking up and abandoning him over the price of eggs.

  • Chozo@fedia.io
    842·
    3 days ago

    “Just one more piece of anti-trans legislation and we can finally get those egg prices back down! We promise!”

  • ReverendIrreverence@lemmy.worldEnglish
    131·
    2 days ago

    Bird flu has killed millions of hens in recent weeks

    Not true. Bird flu is detected in a factory farm after a small amount of hens die or their behavior changes because of the disease. Once the disease is tested for and confirmed then the corporation that owns the birds and/or the laws of the state dictate that the only “cost-effective” way to handle the disease outbreak is to “depopulate” the farm using any number of unethical means such as “foaming” or ventilation shutdown

  • dream_weasel
    51·
    2 days ago

    Am I the only one who just puts the eggs in the cart and then pays for them?

    Why is this the metric and not the price of coffee or hamburger? That shit is expensive.

    • FinishingDutch@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 days ago

      Eggs are a food staple: they are consumed often and in larger quantities. They are eaten directly, but also included as ingredients in a lot of food. So this means that the price of eggs directly impacts your budget/ability to buy them directly, as well as for goods made with them. Same with milk, potatoes, wheat, etc. Their prices tend to be a sort of broad economic barometer.

      And we actually do use hamburgers as a metric. There’s the Big Mac Index for example. It’s used to measure purchasing power between different countries.

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index

    • InFerNo@lemmy.ml
      4·
      2 days ago

      The chain to get eggs in your local store is shorter and they are easier to produce/collect.

      Coffee is imported, hamburger needs to be processed, so more labour is required.

      Those would be my guesses.

  • hark@lemmy.world
    41·
    2 days ago

    According to the following, the average egg price for a dozen large grade A eggs in December of 2024 was about $4.15: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000708111

    According to the following, a large egg is classified as at least 2oz in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_egg_sizes

    So that means it is about $2.77/lb of egg. According to the following, you can get whole chicken for cheaper: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000706111