$3.99 here. I can almost guarantee what happened to drop the price is that they stopped testing for bird flu. Milk also halved in price at the same time. I haven’t seen milk this cheap in 20+ years.
😂 milk/eggs are the same price here in my state. You guys were/are just getting fucked by standard capitalist behaviors. Nothing has fundamentally changed this year for those price drops.
I assure you testing for bird flu in no way results in a 20% price drop, let alone whats being claimed by this admin. Testing is dirt cheap likely less than a fraction of a cent per egg.
The reasons prices sky rocketted is because the flu killed off the chickens not because of testing.
Tests don’t cost money. Positive tests cost money, because then you have to kill a bunch of chickens to stop the spread of the disease. Stymieing the spread of bird flu requires both higher egg prices and costly culling for farmers. If the admin stops testing, egg prices come down because farmers can’t be told to cull chickens which they don’t know are sick. So egg prices come down. But also bird flu spreads out of control and we might create a new pandemic.
Food safety inspection (including bird flu testing) does not make up that much of the cost of eggs.
Capitalists are passing their fuckup costs in to you. A shitload if birds died any you paid to float them until new birds were ready. Why is this so hard to understand? Why are you subtly astroturfing this “actually it’s Biden’s fault because they did egg testing” shit? Fuck off with this neocon propaganda.
Ok and just confirming, these same eggs- brand, size, quality - used to cost like a lot more a couple months ago? Where I live prices went up… Stayed there
Stupidity highlighted in the post aside - that’s not my country, is it true that eggs now cost $2 when they used to be $8?
$3.99 here. I can almost guarantee what happened to drop the price is that they stopped testing for bird flu. Milk also halved in price at the same time. I haven’t seen milk this cheap in 20+ years.
😂 milk/eggs are the same price here in my state. You guys were/are just getting fucked by standard capitalist behaviors. Nothing has fundamentally changed this year for those price drops.
I assure you testing for bird flu in no way results in a 20% price drop, let alone whats being claimed by this admin. Testing is dirt cheap likely less than a fraction of a cent per egg.
The reasons prices sky rocketted is because the flu killed off the chickens not because of testing.
Tests don’t cost money. Positive tests cost money, because then you have to kill a bunch of chickens to stop the spread of the disease. Stymieing the spread of bird flu requires both higher egg prices and costly culling for farmers. If the admin stops testing, egg prices come down because farmers can’t be told to cull chickens which they don’t know are sick. So egg prices come down. But also bird flu spreads out of control and we might create a new pandemic.
Bird flu is very deadly for chickens. Testing or not testing doesn’t affect mortality rate. It’s 75%-100% either way.
Not testing would mean they are not culling before it spreads therefore more dead chickens and fewer eggs.
This is not the same as testing cows where there is much lower mortality rate. In cows it results in lower milk production.
Culling was covered by federal subs. (Whether those subs were sufficient is a different matter)
EPI reports profits hundreds of percents higher, every year. They are nonpartisan.
👍 didnt feel like pulling a real number so pulled a number that was almost certainly below what they did for demonstration purposes.
Food safety inspection (including bird flu testing) does not make up that much of the cost of eggs.
Capitalists are passing their fuckup costs in to you. A shitload if birds died any you paid to float them until new birds were ready. Why is this so hard to understand? Why are you subtly astroturfing this “actually it’s Biden’s fault because they did egg testing” shit? Fuck off with this neocon propaganda.
I can’t even formulate an argument to your unintelligible drivel. Go back to the flat earth hole you crawled out of.
It’s a lie. It’s always a lie.
In NY, a dozen has come down to $6.99 from $12.99 in March. They were ~$5.99 per dozen under Biden when MAGA could not shut up about them.
atm $3.80/dozen where i’m at.
Ok and just confirming, these same eggs- brand, size, quality - used to cost like a lot more a couple months ago? Where I live prices went up… Stayed there
yup march they were over 8.