ThunderHorse
Verified Military
Egg prices aren't down, at least where I'm at. USDA forced the killing of millions of birds nationwide even in areas not under threat. Also, you want to buy organic chicken eggs? You mean that actually want sick chickens but I digress. Weirdly enough, I am one degree of separation from the largest egg farmer in the state due to my wife's work. They actually were impacted by this outbreak of bird flu, they had to cull 1 million birds.
To give you an idea on what it takes to supply the American market with eggs. In the commercial system you essentially need one egg laying hen per person. Consider that we have a bunch of non-egg eating vegans in our population so you reduce that a bit. But the number of commercial egg laying hens across the various categories (caged, cage free, free range, free range grass fed, organic yada yada) is 330-350 millions. In the commercial system we have around 280 million egg laying hens. So...we're gonna have egg prices for a HOT minute.
To give you an idea on what it takes to supply the American market with eggs. In the commercial system you essentially need one egg laying hen per person. Consider that we have a bunch of non-egg eating vegans in our population so you reduce that a bit. But the number of commercial egg laying hens across the various categories (caged, cage free, free range, free range grass fed, organic yada yada) is 330-350 millions. In the commercial system we have around 280 million egg laying hens. So...we're gonna have egg prices for a HOT minute.
