Why would prices decrease when Americans time and time again show that we will just bend over and take whatever our corporate overlords dish out.
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Literally have had little old people spending tons of gas money driving all over town looking for eggs when you couldn't find them. It was bonkers. Nobody needs eggs that badly, but they were willing to waste half the day just to get some at all, not even cheap.
Indeed, just bending over and taking it. Even lubing themselves up first, with this kind of behavior. Like the entire economy is a fucking Findom and all the consumers are Finsubs throwing their money at the Findom.
I swear, that generation will see things on the news and be compelled to do whatever the newscaster tells them.
Beanie Babies all the rage? Watch them board toys.
Satanic Panic? Time to purge everything Jimmy was watching.
People peeing in litter boxes? It must be true.
Self inflicted egg crisis? Time to eat more eggs than ever before.
Being told what they think is their personality.
That's not unique to any one generation. Herd behavior is, like, part of the human condition.
There's definitely one generation that does it more you contrarian prick.
You serious? Your own examples aren't even isolated to Boomers. Beanie babies was primarily a Millennial and Gen X phenomenon (which made sense because it was a toy trend amplified through the rise of the internet as mainstream, and took off among those early adopters of dial-up), and was one of many consumerist toy trends of the 80's and 90's, like pogs or Cabbage Patch Kids or Magic: The Gathering cards.
Satanic panic was driven as much by Silent Generation as it was the boomers, and is unfortunately part of a long line of religious othering that traces back to the dawn of human history. Mike Warnke's The Satan Seller hit bestseller lists in 1972, and Silent Generation authors like Lauren Stratford and Lawrence Pazder ran away with their made up stories (and made a killing on book sales). By the time that panic hit its peak in the early 80's, most parents of young children were boomers, but the collective messaging was still driven by older people in publishing and news.
Meanwhile, the basic idea of fads or trends are universal. The people mimicking TikTok dances or YouTube pranks transcend any one generation. More seriously, people are falling for conspiracy theories en masse, of all generations. Is anti-vax, or anti-seed-oil, or 9/11 truthers, or QAnon believers confined to a specific generation? This shit is everywhere, and believing that these things will die off with the boomers is going to result in a lot of surprise and disappointment that these things will always be with us.
As someone who doesn't like eggs, I'm baffled. I've never purchased an egg in my life. There are many delicious things to eat without them. If they're so unreasonably expensive, it shouldn't be hard for the average person to just do without them.
I just need a handful to make some brownies. You can't really bake without eggs, so lots of business use them as a core ingredient. im sure you consume them somewhere.
Yes, I eat cakes and stuff containing eggs but I'd do without them if they became really expensive. I can understand bakeries requiring eggs but normal everyday people don't need them. You don't need to bake, you want to bake
Lol we just started the 2nd great depression. I need brownies.
Look up vegan baking. Theres like a dozen different egg replacers all with different flavors.
Oh i've had many a delicious vegan treats. But i'm not a vegan. I've raised chickens before for eggs and meat. It's looking like I will have to do it again this year! Like I told the other guy. The need for brownies is real. Poor people deserve fair access to brownies.
Real quick aside if ya can get a turkey hen and have the land for one or two they produce slightly bigger eggs than an americana hen. Also they may be easier to get since dumb yuppies in my area are going after chickens but not the quail or turkeys, only problem is it takes a bit longer for a turkey hen to start producing.
I do not. I would just check online, there are plenty of companies that will ship fertilized eggs.Incubators are easy to use. I wish you luck on your hunt and hope you get a nice chicken friend.
We usually also get fertilized eggs when we can, just a bit easier to get the chicks when I'm at the feed store. Anyways our hens and turkey are doing rather well, their pen turning into a mud pit from recent rain aside. They have a sheltered area that's dry it's just that about 30 percent of the open area is mud.
They're poor substitutes. I like vegan meals as much as the next, but trying to get people to ditch eggs in baking is a losing proposition.
There are a few vegan bakeries around me that make all sorts of delicious stuff but I do agree that its hard for most people to go from perfectly mixed boxed cake mix to having to bake from scratch to make it egg free.
Personally I dont see why people wouldnt at least consider both if they aren't vegan. I much prefer waffles made with apple sauce for example. Sort of unrelated but mashed potatoes with olive oil instead of milk and butter is also better in my opinion.
So the two takeaways from this article are:
- Trump is full of shit, and
- Corporations are greedy and won’t lower prices despite lower costs - they need something to push them.
So, two things we already knew
It won’t matter to magats cos eggs was their front to avoid admitting that they are racist and sexist
"And again, when you have 15 people, and the 15 within a couple of days is going to be down to close to zero, that’s a pretty good job we’ve done.” — Trump about covid-19 in Feb 2020
It peaked last month but has actually dropped a lot since then: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/eggs-us
I assume it's because the price was so ridiculously high that the reduction in sales was finally felt by suppliers. Trump did nothing to help.
Your link is wholesale prices of white non-organic caged eggs, updated daily. It also excludes the eggs sold on long term contracts.
The AP article takes the CPI report of the consumer price of all eggs (white vs brown, organic vs non organic, caged versus cage free versus free range) in a weighted average of how much is sold, and averages over the entire month. Plus retailers simply can't update prices daily, and prefer to price things at numbers that end in 9.
The bird flu issues seemed to affect caged non-organic producers harder, so that those prices moved a lot more than the free range organic stuff. That led to some unexpected flips of which was more expensive, as I'd seen some traditional eggs going for $8.99 (up from around $3 before) while the free range organic stuff was only slightly up to $7.99 (up from about $5 before), literally in the same store on the same shelves.
Taken all together, you'd expect the monthly CPI price of an average of all types of eggs to be much less volatile than the daily wholesale spot price of the cheapest type of grade A whole fresh eggs.
Anecdotally I've already seen egg prices drop this month. Lots more availability of the sub-$5 options when I was in the store earlier this week. I'd expect next month's CPI report, about the current month, to reflect a drop in retail egg prices.
Adjudicated rapist (inmate #P01135809) who is formerly known as the former presidential placeholder but is now currently known as the current presidential placeholder says: "Shut up about egg prices."
"I'm busy retaliating against the retaliations."
This article is talking about month-old data. Egg prices have been dropping over the past few weeks and should continue to do so.
U.S. egg prices did began [sic] falling in mid-March, according to Datasembly, a market research company that tracks prices at thousands of stores. Datasembly said eggs averaged $5.98 per dozen the week beginning March 16 and dropped to $5.51 the week beginning March 30.
Yeah I was going to say the peak was definitely more than just $6 before the decline.
Our local Giant Eagle marked them up to around 9-10.00/dozen for a few weeks before marking them back down to 6.00. Im also skeptical the peak was only 6.00.
I'm guessing Denmark has just about the most expensive eggs in EU at about 4.00 EUR or 4.50 USD for 10.
So 5.20 USD for 10 eggs doesn't seem that expensive to me.
On the other hand, close to 1.00 USD for 12 eggs as it was not long ago, seems extremely cheap, so cheap that I doubt those can be made responsibly or be very good.
PS: The price in Denmark includes 25% VAT.
The issue is that we are still getting the same factory farm, low quality, bleach washed $1 eggs at ridiculous and obvious collusion pricing.
Yes, apparently the cheap production wasn't sustainable, and unable to handle infections.
I just find it crazy that it was even possible to produce them that cheap in the first place.
Horrible condition factory farming is unfortunately sustainable. The cost to produce eggs has not significantly increased and we've only culled ~4% of birds due to BF. On top of that i hear infections are slowing lately. But somehow prices have increased 4-10x, this shows prices are being fixed intentionally by the ~4 major US egg suppliers colluding.
Yes that's probably capitalism working as intended. 😋
Kartels are illegal, but if they can agree silently on not lowering prices again, I guess there is little anyone can do.
“He’s the Holy Prophet…He is not, nor ever was, The Eggman…”
He said they were lower this week, not a prediction. Just another one of his lies.