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That's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times! | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!"
] |
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How much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us? | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?"
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Avian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds. | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds."
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I remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway! | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs."
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Laughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many. | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!"
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Food affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick. | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick."
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Between groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it. | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!"
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The GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works. | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works."
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We really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point. | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday."
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I was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower!
For those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please. | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please."
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Well, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again! | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation."
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Those prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it. | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks."
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I just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now. | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying"
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Inflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).
And for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)
That means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022) | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas..."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well."
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Yes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs.
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers..."
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It was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit. | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year"
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Oh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item.
I know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily."
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welp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds"
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and yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple. | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple."
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I understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal. | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?"
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Chickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying.
Meat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years.
Now what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again.
Culled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up."
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As a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks… | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways"
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remember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…"
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meanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters"
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Conscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense. | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter."
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20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple. | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple."
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I hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.
And to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.
And then there's yall. 🤡
I blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.
Oh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it."
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It's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls. | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these.",
">\n\nIt's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these.",
">\n\nIt's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls.",
">\n\nThey got to get that pandemic money back somehow"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these.",
">\n\nIt's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls.",
">\n\nThey got to get that pandemic money back somehow",
">\n\nOrganic free range eggs are still the same price"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these.",
">\n\nIt's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls.",
">\n\nThey got to get that pandemic money back somehow",
">\n\nOrganic free range eggs are still the same price",
">\n\nFood prices are wild. It's why my diet consists of rice, frozen veggies and tofu. With a different \"sauce\" for variety."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these.",
">\n\nIt's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls.",
">\n\nThey got to get that pandemic money back somehow",
">\n\nOrganic free range eggs are still the same price",
">\n\nFood prices are wild. It's why my diet consists of rice, frozen veggies and tofu. With a different \"sauce\" for variety.",
">\n\nIt’s cool though, financial institutions said inflation is down"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these.",
">\n\nIt's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls.",
">\n\nThey got to get that pandemic money back somehow",
">\n\nOrganic free range eggs are still the same price",
">\n\nFood prices are wild. It's why my diet consists of rice, frozen veggies and tofu. With a different \"sauce\" for variety.",
">\n\nIt’s cool though, financial institutions said inflation is down",
">\n\nImpossible!! The government says inflation is only 8% and they never tell lies."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these.",
">\n\nIt's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls.",
">\n\nThey got to get that pandemic money back somehow",
">\n\nOrganic free range eggs are still the same price",
">\n\nFood prices are wild. It's why my diet consists of rice, frozen veggies and tofu. With a different \"sauce\" for variety.",
">\n\nIt’s cool though, financial institutions said inflation is down",
">\n\nImpossible!! The government says inflation is only 8% and they never tell lies.",
">\n\n7 percent inflation my ass"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these.",
">\n\nIt's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls.",
">\n\nThey got to get that pandemic money back somehow",
">\n\nOrganic free range eggs are still the same price",
">\n\nFood prices are wild. It's why my diet consists of rice, frozen veggies and tofu. With a different \"sauce\" for variety.",
">\n\nIt’s cool though, financial institutions said inflation is down",
">\n\nImpossible!! The government says inflation is only 8% and they never tell lies.",
">\n\n7 percent inflation my ass",
">\n\nGood thing I don't eat eggs!\nAlso, I've been eating a lot less meat (by choice), so my grocery bills have not gone up significantly."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these.",
">\n\nIt's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls.",
">\n\nThey got to get that pandemic money back somehow",
">\n\nOrganic free range eggs are still the same price",
">\n\nFood prices are wild. It's why my diet consists of rice, frozen veggies and tofu. With a different \"sauce\" for variety.",
">\n\nIt’s cool though, financial institutions said inflation is down",
">\n\nImpossible!! The government says inflation is only 8% and they never tell lies.",
">\n\n7 percent inflation my ass",
">\n\nGood thing I don't eat eggs!\nAlso, I've been eating a lot less meat (by choice), so my grocery bills have not gone up significantly.",
">\n\nBut, but ... The president said inflation was lower than ever!"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these.",
">\n\nIt's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls.",
">\n\nThey got to get that pandemic money back somehow",
">\n\nOrganic free range eggs are still the same price",
">\n\nFood prices are wild. It's why my diet consists of rice, frozen veggies and tofu. With a different \"sauce\" for variety.",
">\n\nIt’s cool though, financial institutions said inflation is down",
">\n\nImpossible!! The government says inflation is only 8% and they never tell lies.",
">\n\n7 percent inflation my ass",
">\n\nGood thing I don't eat eggs!\nAlso, I've been eating a lot less meat (by choice), so my grocery bills have not gone up significantly.",
">\n\nBut, but ... The president said inflation was lower than ever!",
">\n\nYeah, you're full of shit. Today, Biden said inflation is at its lowest since October of 2021. And Biden is correct, btw."
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The eggs thing was because millions of hens died of Avian flu this year.
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these.",
">\n\nIt's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls.",
">\n\nThey got to get that pandemic money back somehow",
">\n\nOrganic free range eggs are still the same price",
">\n\nFood prices are wild. It's why my diet consists of rice, frozen veggies and tofu. With a different \"sauce\" for variety.",
">\n\nIt’s cool though, financial institutions said inflation is down",
">\n\nImpossible!! The government says inflation is only 8% and they never tell lies.",
">\n\n7 percent inflation my ass",
">\n\nGood thing I don't eat eggs!\nAlso, I've been eating a lot less meat (by choice), so my grocery bills have not gone up significantly.",
">\n\nBut, but ... The president said inflation was lower than ever!",
">\n\nYeah, you're full of shit. Today, Biden said inflation is at its lowest since October of 2021. And Biden is correct, btw.",
">\n\nGreed, greed , greed And more greed."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these.",
">\n\nIt's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls.",
">\n\nThey got to get that pandemic money back somehow",
">\n\nOrganic free range eggs are still the same price",
">\n\nFood prices are wild. It's why my diet consists of rice, frozen veggies and tofu. With a different \"sauce\" for variety.",
">\n\nIt’s cool though, financial institutions said inflation is down",
">\n\nImpossible!! The government says inflation is only 8% and they never tell lies.",
">\n\n7 percent inflation my ass",
">\n\nGood thing I don't eat eggs!\nAlso, I've been eating a lot less meat (by choice), so my grocery bills have not gone up significantly.",
">\n\nBut, but ... The president said inflation was lower than ever!",
">\n\nYeah, you're full of shit. Today, Biden said inflation is at its lowest since October of 2021. And Biden is correct, btw.",
">\n\nGreed, greed , greed And more greed.",
">\n\nThe eggs thing was because millions of hens died of Avian flu this year. \nYou can at least try reading the article, bud"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these.",
">\n\nIt's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls.",
">\n\nThey got to get that pandemic money back somehow",
">\n\nOrganic free range eggs are still the same price",
">\n\nFood prices are wild. It's why my diet consists of rice, frozen veggies and tofu. With a different \"sauce\" for variety.",
">\n\nIt’s cool though, financial institutions said inflation is down",
">\n\nImpossible!! The government says inflation is only 8% and they never tell lies.",
">\n\n7 percent inflation my ass",
">\n\nGood thing I don't eat eggs!\nAlso, I've been eating a lot less meat (by choice), so my grocery bills have not gone up significantly.",
">\n\nBut, but ... The president said inflation was lower than ever!",
">\n\nYeah, you're full of shit. Today, Biden said inflation is at its lowest since October of 2021. And Biden is correct, btw.",
">\n\nGreed, greed , greed And more greed.",
">\n\nThe eggs thing was because millions of hens died of Avian flu this year. \nYou can at least try reading the article, bud",
">\n\nAre you telling me BigChicken ain’t greedy?\nYou must be a rooster booster"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these.",
">\n\nIt's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls.",
">\n\nThey got to get that pandemic money back somehow",
">\n\nOrganic free range eggs are still the same price",
">\n\nFood prices are wild. It's why my diet consists of rice, frozen veggies and tofu. With a different \"sauce\" for variety.",
">\n\nIt’s cool though, financial institutions said inflation is down",
">\n\nImpossible!! The government says inflation is only 8% and they never tell lies.",
">\n\n7 percent inflation my ass",
">\n\nGood thing I don't eat eggs!\nAlso, I've been eating a lot less meat (by choice), so my grocery bills have not gone up significantly.",
">\n\nBut, but ... The president said inflation was lower than ever!",
">\n\nYeah, you're full of shit. Today, Biden said inflation is at its lowest since October of 2021. And Biden is correct, btw.",
">\n\nGreed, greed , greed And more greed.",
">\n\nThe eggs thing was because millions of hens died of Avian flu this year. \nYou can at least try reading the article, bud",
">\n\nAre you telling me BigChicken ain’t greedy?\nYou must be a rooster booster",
">\n\nAvian flu is hitting the flocks hard. This is a specific product impacted by a specific problem."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these.",
">\n\nIt's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls.",
">\n\nThey got to get that pandemic money back somehow",
">\n\nOrganic free range eggs are still the same price",
">\n\nFood prices are wild. It's why my diet consists of rice, frozen veggies and tofu. With a different \"sauce\" for variety.",
">\n\nIt’s cool though, financial institutions said inflation is down",
">\n\nImpossible!! The government says inflation is only 8% and they never tell lies.",
">\n\n7 percent inflation my ass",
">\n\nGood thing I don't eat eggs!\nAlso, I've been eating a lot less meat (by choice), so my grocery bills have not gone up significantly.",
">\n\nBut, but ... The president said inflation was lower than ever!",
">\n\nYeah, you're full of shit. Today, Biden said inflation is at its lowest since October of 2021. And Biden is correct, btw.",
">\n\nGreed, greed , greed And more greed.",
">\n\nThe eggs thing was because millions of hens died of Avian flu this year. \nYou can at least try reading the article, bud",
">\n\nAre you telling me BigChicken ain’t greedy?\nYou must be a rooster booster",
">\n\nAvian flu is hitting the flocks hard. This is a specific product impacted by a specific problem.",
">\n\negg prices are going up cause the chickens are getting treated better right?"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these.",
">\n\nIt's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls.",
">\n\nThey got to get that pandemic money back somehow",
">\n\nOrganic free range eggs are still the same price",
">\n\nFood prices are wild. It's why my diet consists of rice, frozen veggies and tofu. With a different \"sauce\" for variety.",
">\n\nIt’s cool though, financial institutions said inflation is down",
">\n\nImpossible!! The government says inflation is only 8% and they never tell lies.",
">\n\n7 percent inflation my ass",
">\n\nGood thing I don't eat eggs!\nAlso, I've been eating a lot less meat (by choice), so my grocery bills have not gone up significantly.",
">\n\nBut, but ... The president said inflation was lower than ever!",
">\n\nYeah, you're full of shit. Today, Biden said inflation is at its lowest since October of 2021. And Biden is correct, btw.",
">\n\nGreed, greed , greed And more greed.",
">\n\nThe eggs thing was because millions of hens died of Avian flu this year. \nYou can at least try reading the article, bud",
">\n\nAre you telling me BigChicken ain’t greedy?\nYou must be a rooster booster",
">\n\nAvian flu is hitting the flocks hard. This is a specific product impacted by a specific problem.",
">\n\negg prices are going up cause the chickens are getting treated better right?",
">\n\nAre their corporate profits up?"
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So all the Republicans jump around and flap their wings so to speak saying we can't have chickens that are grown in factories it's too expensive. Cows that don't live in factory farms too expensive. There's nothing going on with the cattle they're spread out all over the entire country Mexico and Canada they just smell the greed in another pen full of freaking chicken s*** | [
"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these.",
">\n\nIt's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls.",
">\n\nThey got to get that pandemic money back somehow",
">\n\nOrganic free range eggs are still the same price",
">\n\nFood prices are wild. It's why my diet consists of rice, frozen veggies and tofu. With a different \"sauce\" for variety.",
">\n\nIt’s cool though, financial institutions said inflation is down",
">\n\nImpossible!! The government says inflation is only 8% and they never tell lies.",
">\n\n7 percent inflation my ass",
">\n\nGood thing I don't eat eggs!\nAlso, I've been eating a lot less meat (by choice), so my grocery bills have not gone up significantly.",
">\n\nBut, but ... The president said inflation was lower than ever!",
">\n\nYeah, you're full of shit. Today, Biden said inflation is at its lowest since October of 2021. And Biden is correct, btw.",
">\n\nGreed, greed , greed And more greed.",
">\n\nThe eggs thing was because millions of hens died of Avian flu this year. \nYou can at least try reading the article, bud",
">\n\nAre you telling me BigChicken ain’t greedy?\nYou must be a rooster booster",
">\n\nAvian flu is hitting the flocks hard. This is a specific product impacted by a specific problem.",
">\n\negg prices are going up cause the chickens are getting treated better right?",
">\n\nAre their corporate profits up?",
">\n\nAvian Flu is up."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these.",
">\n\nIt's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls.",
">\n\nThey got to get that pandemic money back somehow",
">\n\nOrganic free range eggs are still the same price",
">\n\nFood prices are wild. It's why my diet consists of rice, frozen veggies and tofu. With a different \"sauce\" for variety.",
">\n\nIt’s cool though, financial institutions said inflation is down",
">\n\nImpossible!! The government says inflation is only 8% and they never tell lies.",
">\n\n7 percent inflation my ass",
">\n\nGood thing I don't eat eggs!\nAlso, I've been eating a lot less meat (by choice), so my grocery bills have not gone up significantly.",
">\n\nBut, but ... The president said inflation was lower than ever!",
">\n\nYeah, you're full of shit. Today, Biden said inflation is at its lowest since October of 2021. And Biden is correct, btw.",
">\n\nGreed, greed , greed And more greed.",
">\n\nThe eggs thing was because millions of hens died of Avian flu this year. \nYou can at least try reading the article, bud",
">\n\nAre you telling me BigChicken ain’t greedy?\nYou must be a rooster booster",
">\n\nAvian flu is hitting the flocks hard. This is a specific product impacted by a specific problem.",
">\n\negg prices are going up cause the chickens are getting treated better right?",
">\n\nAre their corporate profits up?",
">\n\nAvian Flu is up.",
">\n\nSo all the Republicans jump around and flap their wings so to speak saying we can't have chickens that are grown in factories it's too expensive. Cows that don't live in factory farms too expensive. There's nothing going on with the cattle they're spread out all over the entire country Mexico and Canada they just smell the greed in another pen full of freaking chicken s***"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these.",
">\n\nIt's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls.",
">\n\nThey got to get that pandemic money back somehow",
">\n\nOrganic free range eggs are still the same price",
">\n\nFood prices are wild. It's why my diet consists of rice, frozen veggies and tofu. With a different \"sauce\" for variety.",
">\n\nIt’s cool though, financial institutions said inflation is down",
">\n\nImpossible!! The government says inflation is only 8% and they never tell lies.",
">\n\n7 percent inflation my ass",
">\n\nGood thing I don't eat eggs!\nAlso, I've been eating a lot less meat (by choice), so my grocery bills have not gone up significantly.",
">\n\nBut, but ... The president said inflation was lower than ever!",
">\n\nYeah, you're full of shit. Today, Biden said inflation is at its lowest since October of 2021. And Biden is correct, btw.",
">\n\nGreed, greed , greed And more greed.",
">\n\nThe eggs thing was because millions of hens died of Avian flu this year. \nYou can at least try reading the article, bud",
">\n\nAre you telling me BigChicken ain’t greedy?\nYou must be a rooster booster",
">\n\nAvian flu is hitting the flocks hard. This is a specific product impacted by a specific problem.",
">\n\negg prices are going up cause the chickens are getting treated better right?",
">\n\nAre their corporate profits up?",
">\n\nAvian Flu is up.",
">\n\nSo all the Republicans jump around and flap their wings so to speak saying we can't have chickens that are grown in factories it's too expensive. Cows that don't live in factory farms too expensive. There's nothing going on with the cattle they're spread out all over the entire country Mexico and Canada they just smell the greed in another pen full of freaking chicken s***",
">\n\nand the gov says inflation is under control"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these.",
">\n\nIt's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls.",
">\n\nThey got to get that pandemic money back somehow",
">\n\nOrganic free range eggs are still the same price",
">\n\nFood prices are wild. It's why my diet consists of rice, frozen veggies and tofu. With a different \"sauce\" for variety.",
">\n\nIt’s cool though, financial institutions said inflation is down",
">\n\nImpossible!! The government says inflation is only 8% and they never tell lies.",
">\n\n7 percent inflation my ass",
">\n\nGood thing I don't eat eggs!\nAlso, I've been eating a lot less meat (by choice), so my grocery bills have not gone up significantly.",
">\n\nBut, but ... The president said inflation was lower than ever!",
">\n\nYeah, you're full of shit. Today, Biden said inflation is at its lowest since October of 2021. And Biden is correct, btw.",
">\n\nGreed, greed , greed And more greed.",
">\n\nThe eggs thing was because millions of hens died of Avian flu this year. \nYou can at least try reading the article, bud",
">\n\nAre you telling me BigChicken ain’t greedy?\nYou must be a rooster booster",
">\n\nAvian flu is hitting the flocks hard. This is a specific product impacted by a specific problem.",
">\n\negg prices are going up cause the chickens are getting treated better right?",
">\n\nAre their corporate profits up?",
">\n\nAvian Flu is up.",
">\n\nSo all the Republicans jump around and flap their wings so to speak saying we can't have chickens that are grown in factories it's too expensive. Cows that don't live in factory farms too expensive. There's nothing going on with the cattle they're spread out all over the entire country Mexico and Canada they just smell the greed in another pen full of freaking chicken s***",
">\n\nand the gov says inflation is under control",
">\n\nDon't feel too bad grocery shoppers, some of us live off of fast food and we're getting beat-up pretty bad too!"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these.",
">\n\nIt's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls.",
">\n\nThey got to get that pandemic money back somehow",
">\n\nOrganic free range eggs are still the same price",
">\n\nFood prices are wild. It's why my diet consists of rice, frozen veggies and tofu. With a different \"sauce\" for variety.",
">\n\nIt’s cool though, financial institutions said inflation is down",
">\n\nImpossible!! The government says inflation is only 8% and they never tell lies.",
">\n\n7 percent inflation my ass",
">\n\nGood thing I don't eat eggs!\nAlso, I've been eating a lot less meat (by choice), so my grocery bills have not gone up significantly.",
">\n\nBut, but ... The president said inflation was lower than ever!",
">\n\nYeah, you're full of shit. Today, Biden said inflation is at its lowest since October of 2021. And Biden is correct, btw.",
">\n\nGreed, greed , greed And more greed.",
">\n\nThe eggs thing was because millions of hens died of Avian flu this year. \nYou can at least try reading the article, bud",
">\n\nAre you telling me BigChicken ain’t greedy?\nYou must be a rooster booster",
">\n\nAvian flu is hitting the flocks hard. This is a specific product impacted by a specific problem.",
">\n\negg prices are going up cause the chickens are getting treated better right?",
">\n\nAre their corporate profits up?",
">\n\nAvian Flu is up.",
">\n\nSo all the Republicans jump around and flap their wings so to speak saying we can't have chickens that are grown in factories it's too expensive. Cows that don't live in factory farms too expensive. There's nothing going on with the cattle they're spread out all over the entire country Mexico and Canada they just smell the greed in another pen full of freaking chicken s***",
">\n\nand the gov says inflation is under control",
">\n\nDon't feel too bad grocery shoppers, some of us live off of fast food and we're getting beat-up pretty bad too!",
">\n\nIt might be worth it to get some hens and one rooster 🐔"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these.",
">\n\nIt's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls.",
">\n\nThey got to get that pandemic money back somehow",
">\n\nOrganic free range eggs are still the same price",
">\n\nFood prices are wild. It's why my diet consists of rice, frozen veggies and tofu. With a different \"sauce\" for variety.",
">\n\nIt’s cool though, financial institutions said inflation is down",
">\n\nImpossible!! The government says inflation is only 8% and they never tell lies.",
">\n\n7 percent inflation my ass",
">\n\nGood thing I don't eat eggs!\nAlso, I've been eating a lot less meat (by choice), so my grocery bills have not gone up significantly.",
">\n\nBut, but ... The president said inflation was lower than ever!",
">\n\nYeah, you're full of shit. Today, Biden said inflation is at its lowest since October of 2021. And Biden is correct, btw.",
">\n\nGreed, greed , greed And more greed.",
">\n\nThe eggs thing was because millions of hens died of Avian flu this year. \nYou can at least try reading the article, bud",
">\n\nAre you telling me BigChicken ain’t greedy?\nYou must be a rooster booster",
">\n\nAvian flu is hitting the flocks hard. This is a specific product impacted by a specific problem.",
">\n\negg prices are going up cause the chickens are getting treated better right?",
">\n\nAre their corporate profits up?",
">\n\nAvian Flu is up.",
">\n\nSo all the Republicans jump around and flap their wings so to speak saying we can't have chickens that are grown in factories it's too expensive. Cows that don't live in factory farms too expensive. There's nothing going on with the cattle they're spread out all over the entire country Mexico and Canada they just smell the greed in another pen full of freaking chicken s***",
">\n\nand the gov says inflation is under control",
">\n\nDon't feel too bad grocery shoppers, some of us live off of fast food and we're getting beat-up pretty bad too!",
">\n\nIt might be worth it to get some hens and one rooster 🐔",
">\n\nI eat 2 eggs+ egg white almost daily. Prices have made consider dropping the actual eggs. Fade me 🤮"
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these.",
">\n\nIt's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls.",
">\n\nThey got to get that pandemic money back somehow",
">\n\nOrganic free range eggs are still the same price",
">\n\nFood prices are wild. It's why my diet consists of rice, frozen veggies and tofu. With a different \"sauce\" for variety.",
">\n\nIt’s cool though, financial institutions said inflation is down",
">\n\nImpossible!! The government says inflation is only 8% and they never tell lies.",
">\n\n7 percent inflation my ass",
">\n\nGood thing I don't eat eggs!\nAlso, I've been eating a lot less meat (by choice), so my grocery bills have not gone up significantly.",
">\n\nBut, but ... The president said inflation was lower than ever!",
">\n\nYeah, you're full of shit. Today, Biden said inflation is at its lowest since October of 2021. And Biden is correct, btw.",
">\n\nGreed, greed , greed And more greed.",
">\n\nThe eggs thing was because millions of hens died of Avian flu this year. \nYou can at least try reading the article, bud",
">\n\nAre you telling me BigChicken ain’t greedy?\nYou must be a rooster booster",
">\n\nAvian flu is hitting the flocks hard. This is a specific product impacted by a specific problem.",
">\n\negg prices are going up cause the chickens are getting treated better right?",
">\n\nAre their corporate profits up?",
">\n\nAvian Flu is up.",
">\n\nSo all the Republicans jump around and flap their wings so to speak saying we can't have chickens that are grown in factories it's too expensive. Cows that don't live in factory farms too expensive. There's nothing going on with the cattle they're spread out all over the entire country Mexico and Canada they just smell the greed in another pen full of freaking chicken s***",
">\n\nand the gov says inflation is under control",
">\n\nDon't feel too bad grocery shoppers, some of us live off of fast food and we're getting beat-up pretty bad too!",
">\n\nIt might be worth it to get some hens and one rooster 🐔",
">\n\nI eat 2 eggs+ egg white almost daily. Prices have made consider dropping the actual eggs. Fade me 🤮",
">\n\nStill less than gold rush prices in sf."
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"I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times",
">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.",
">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!",
">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?",
">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.",
">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.",
">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.",
">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly",
">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.",
">\n\nInflationary money demands it.",
">\n\nCapitalism demands it.",
">\n\nProfits must be maintained.",
">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.",
">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.",
">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!",
">\n\nThanks for the laugh.",
">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.",
">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!",
">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%",
">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.",
">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?",
">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.",
">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.",
">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx",
">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.",
">\n\nSignificant feggures",
">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun",
">\n\nDon’t egg me on",
">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.",
">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!",
">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it",
">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.",
">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.",
">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.",
">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money",
">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.",
">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.",
">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.",
">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.",
">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way",
">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.",
">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?",
">\n\nThat's my on going theory.",
">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.",
">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.",
">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.",
">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon",
">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal",
">\n\naka shrinkflation",
">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.",
">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.",
">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.",
">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry",
">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday",
">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol",
">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!",
">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.",
">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.",
">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs",
">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.",
">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years",
">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub",
">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.",
">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.",
">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.",
">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one",
">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?",
">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.",
">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap",
">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€",
">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.",
">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?",
">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.",
">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.",
">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.",
">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"",
">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?",
">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!",
">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.",
">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.",
">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.",
">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.",
">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.",
">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).",
">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?",
">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.",
">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??",
">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.",
">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.",
">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%",
">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.",
">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)",
">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.",
">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.",
">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶",
">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.",
">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious",
">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.",
">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days",
">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?",
">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.",
">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.",
">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.",
">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.",
">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.",
">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.",
">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.",
">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??",
">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.",
">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.",
">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.",
">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?",
">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.",
">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.",
">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!",
">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.",
">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down",
">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.",
">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.",
">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.",
">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.",
">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?",
">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?",
">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year",
">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!",
">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.",
">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%",
">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.",
">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.",
">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.",
">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now",
">\n\nBut don't worry, I got a 4.9% raise!",
">\n\nThat's better than me. Running a small business I'm being squeezed left and right. Vendors raising prices and customers demanding to pay less. We are living in interesting times!",
">\n\nHow much more are we going to pay before we collectively snap? Or have the CEOs already run those numbers and know we’re too focused on this little culture war they’ve created for us?",
">\n\nWhat’s that French Revolution saying about the price of bread?",
">\n\nAvian flu wiped out poultry. The zoo my wife works for had to keep birds isolated so they wouldn't catch it from wild birds. It was bad and the chicken industry culled hundreds of millions of birds.",
">\n\nI've started to make my own eggs.",
">\n\nI remember republicans saying they can’t increase min wage or food prices and fast food will jump. They fucking did anyway!",
">\n\nLaughs in chicken coop behind house. They shit out so many eggs I have to yeet them into the woods sometimes cause I have too many.",
">\n\nFood affordability is already an issue for a lot of people, but once the comfortable masses start feeling the food pinch, shit is gonna hit the fan real quick.",
">\n\nGood thing CPI doesn’t include food or housing prices, otherwise people would be upset. It’s ok though, inflation is being tamed! Just look at the number!",
">\n\nBetween groceries and tipflation going on, I can’t stand it.",
">\n\nThe GM at my restuarant told us how much butter and eggs were for us. I definitely snitched on the guy who wastes the most of our butter and eggs every time he works.",
">\n\n59%? 18 eggs used to cost about $3. I paid $8.37 for the same eggs yesterday.",
">\n\nWe really need to talk a little about company's netting consistent record profits while raising prices to record highs as well with this kind of article. Worked hard to miss the point.",
">\n\nI was listening to NPR this morning and they where saying new car prices are lower! \nFor those of us with a 2010 that's still kickin, I'd like lower groceries please.",
">\n\nI suppose the positive side to being unable to afford enough food is I'll hopefully hit my weight loss goal this year. Dieting through inflation.",
">\n\nWell, heck! I just got a 3% cost-of-living raise, so I can afford 20% more of an egg! Just five or six more raises, and my family will be able to afford breakfast again!",
">\n\nThose prices going up are why I'm not concerned about my gas stove being banned. I can't afford the food to cook on it.",
">\n\nAnd yet we keep seeing articles about us not popping out enough babies… no thanks.",
">\n\nEggs here are higher than 60%, just saying",
">\n\nI just saw the president saying everything was good and inflation was down. Hmmm. Someone is lying. Everything I buy on Amazon has gone up 8 to 16 % in the last 9 to 12 months. I honestly have no idea how most people are surviving right now.",
">\n\nInflation going down means the rate of price INCREASE is lower. Prices still are going up. For prices to go down you need a negative inflation rate (aka deflation).\nAnd for the particular number yes, prices went from 7% CPI (which measures inflation some particular sectors that are not necessarily the best measure of how much more money you have to spend -- but it is the standard measure the government uses) average last year to only 6.5% increase this year (which is a 6-7% decrease in the INCREASE of the prices)\nThat means if something went up from $1 to $2 in 2020 to 2021 it should have only increased from $2 to $3.88 at the end of 2022 instead of the $4 it would be if this hypothetical item had the same inflation rate it had the previous year (in this hypothetical the 100% inflation rate at the end of 2021 dropped 6% to a 94% inflation rate at the end of 2022)",
">\n\nIm starting to think 7 percent inflation in a year is a bit of an underestimate for people like me who mainly spend their funds on food, rent and gas...",
">\n\nMaybe soon people will start realizing CPI is a made up number and that the US government literally alters which items it observes price flux from. Then the US government uses its economic weight force problems into other economies as well.",
">\n\nCue the \"I did that\" stickers...",
">\n\nYes, Biden singlehandedly engineered a bird flu just to raise the price of eggs. \n/s because I have to.",
">\n\nIt was a sarcastic statement. Ease up a bit.",
">\n\nWhat's a banana cost Micheal? Ten dollars?",
">\n\nYeah, I don't think we really needed CBS News to tell us what we already knew",
">\n\nNews 42% more obvious since last year",
">\n\nIt is still corporate greed. If chickens weren't kept in such close quarters, bird flu wouldn't spread as easily.",
">\n\nOh yes but let’s celebrate that inflation is going down by .1% month over month. I saw a chart somewhere that showed that CPI did go down but for things we buy all the time, it is still ticking a bit higher. The CPI that’s widely reported should be that of things that affect Americans the most, which should not include car sales as that isn’t an everyday item. \nI know with eggs it has to do with the avian flu and not inflation but I felt like screaming at the clouds",
">\n\nwelp , back to beans , rice , roti chicken and maruchan ramen noodles.\ncollege diet round 2",
">\n\nand yet, i can walk into either of the two chain grocery stores near me who's egg display cases are chock full of eggs. ....shortage my ass. it's price gouging, plain and simple.",
">\n\nConversely, last time I went to the grocery there were literally 0 eggs left at any price.",
">\n\nI understand that eggs are due to all the chickens that needed to be culled but if chicken numbers return to normal the prices need to return to normal. And if egg manufacturers refuse, enact federal price controls to return the price to normal.",
">\n\nOr everybody agree to stop eating eggs. 6 weeks of 0 egg sales will absolutely smoke out these greedy bastards.",
">\n\nPrice of chicken though ?",
">\n\nExactly, chicken meat has come down in price but eggs are going up. Something doesn't add up.",
">\n\nChickens raised for meat are different than the ones raised for egg laying. \nMeat chickens are maybe 40 days old when they get butchered. Egg Hens are allowed to live iirc about 2 years. \nNow what do you think happens when you have to cull a population of Egg Hens that need to be about 16-22 weeks old to start laying eggs? You need a minimum 16-22 weeks to start getting eggs again. \nCulled meat chickens are just one cycle of them; they were planned to be replaced anyways",
">\n\nAs a person that loves to bake/cook this sucks. I overpaid for eggs the other day bc I could get my hands on some. The egg shelves at all the supermarkets have been bare the last 3 weeks…",
">\n\nremember that tiktok of a chicken farmer and he was letting us know that its the stores increasing the price and its not the farmers? their feed prices increased but the prices they get from the stores havent increased? just supermarkets fucking people over as usual",
">\n\nmeanwhile rich people are blaming worker wages for inflation. I didn't even get a raise from 2020 till March 2022.\nAlso Republicans are saying people are still living off the stimulus checks they got in 2020.",
">\n\nPrices will stay up as long as people pay the prices. Leave these $5.00 a dozen eggs on the shelves and see what happens.",
">\n\nExactly! Statistically we as a nation are overweight anyway. Let’s start boycotting these high grocery prices. Eat at a calorie deficit daily, stop eating eggs. Hit ‘em where it hurts",
">\n\nEggs are our families cheap protein, a bowl of sushi rice with and egg on top and some seasoning is lunch. We have our own chickens but not enough to not need to buy eggs now that eggs are our main source of protein and we're eating it at least 2\" per Day",
">\n\nTwo inches of eggs sounds like a lot",
">\n\nHahaha idk how that even happened I meant to put 2x",
">\n\nYou're not wrong. \nThere are super cheap dairy free butters that taste like normal margarine, and there are more expensive dairy free butters that cost about the same amount (though probably cheaper at the moment) as 'premium' butters that taste exactly the same as the so-called premiums butters",
">\n\nNever a better time to go plant-based. My grocery bill hasn’t changed much over the past few years. Just Egg is not a bad substitute, and Miyokos brand cultured vegan butter tastes almost just like Kerrygold for the same price.",
">\n\nConscious corporate decision. Prices near me have doubled at Shoprite. Have maintained the same price and now half of Shoprite at Aldi. Some goes for Home Depot Lowes. Local hardware store was 3x price because of convenience. Now local hardware cheaper than Home Depot. Make it make sense.",
">\n\nAdapt or die. Not even vegan but people are going to be fine or even healthier without eating eggs or butter.",
">\n\nNot necessarily, or even likely. Instead of spending $8 on eggs for breakfast, or any other foods they should be eating, they'll get something they can afford, and most likely worse. You know what hasn't gone up much? Empty carbs and other garbage.",
">\n\n20 years ago I could buy a dozen eggs for 79 cents. Now it's $15. I still can't understand a 1900% increase in 20 years. That's just about a 100% increase every year. The only real way to explain this is greed. Pure and simple.",
">\n\nSend billions more to Ukraine, that'll help.",
">\n\nI hope Russia bombs your home and does what they are doing to Ukraine to you and then revisit your stance. My god. You people have a mental defect with the absence of empathy and unless you experience it you could give a fuck all.\nAnd to have zero awareness of the threat Russia is and how they are destroying our country. 🤯 Moron. It's in the US's interest irrespective of the fact it's a full blown genocide. The horrors however make it that much easier for those on the fence with the issues.\nAnd then there's yall. 🤡\nI blocked you as a pre emptive nuke strike bc I am not engaging further and don't have any desire to hear the bs you would choose to spew.\nOh and go move to Russia and stop destroying our country.\nYou are all traitors and some of you are too dumb to even see it.",
">\n\nSeeing as raw material suppliers gave about 3-5% in price increases last year that is insane. Specially for subsidized industries like these.",
">\n\nIt's not really affecting Egg/Butter prices as much as meat prices, but drought has a huge effect as well. Ranchers are having to send more cows off to slaughter much earlier than they normally would, causing beef prices to fall in the short term, but they're probably going to start increasing later this year as the supply falls.",
">\n\nThey got to get that pandemic money back somehow",
">\n\nOrganic free range eggs are still the same price",
">\n\nFood prices are wild. It's why my diet consists of rice, frozen veggies and tofu. With a different \"sauce\" for variety.",
">\n\nIt’s cool though, financial institutions said inflation is down",
">\n\nImpossible!! The government says inflation is only 8% and they never tell lies.",
">\n\n7 percent inflation my ass",
">\n\nGood thing I don't eat eggs!\nAlso, I've been eating a lot less meat (by choice), so my grocery bills have not gone up significantly.",
">\n\nBut, but ... The president said inflation was lower than ever!",
">\n\nYeah, you're full of shit. Today, Biden said inflation is at its lowest since October of 2021. And Biden is correct, btw.",
">\n\nGreed, greed , greed And more greed.",
">\n\nThe eggs thing was because millions of hens died of Avian flu this year. \nYou can at least try reading the article, bud",
">\n\nAre you telling me BigChicken ain’t greedy?\nYou must be a rooster booster",
">\n\nAvian flu is hitting the flocks hard. This is a specific product impacted by a specific problem.",
">\n\negg prices are going up cause the chickens are getting treated better right?",
">\n\nAre their corporate profits up?",
">\n\nAvian Flu is up.",
">\n\nSo all the Republicans jump around and flap their wings so to speak saying we can't have chickens that are grown in factories it's too expensive. Cows that don't live in factory farms too expensive. There's nothing going on with the cattle they're spread out all over the entire country Mexico and Canada they just smell the greed in another pen full of freaking chicken s***",
">\n\nand the gov says inflation is under control",
">\n\nDon't feel too bad grocery shoppers, some of us live off of fast food and we're getting beat-up pretty bad too!",
">\n\nIt might be worth it to get some hens and one rooster 🐔",
">\n\nI eat 2 eggs+ egg white almost daily. Prices have made consider dropping the actual eggs. Fade me 🤮",
">\n\nStill less than gold rush prices in sf.",
">\n\nBring back the egg and butter board of trade."
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">\n\n🎵Aid and Abet in the morning!🎵",
">\n\nin a row",
">\n\nTry not to resign any positions on your way through the parking lot!",
">\n\nturns around to follow the prospect of Republicans resigning out.\n\"Hey, get back here!\"",
">\n\nHe's not even supposed to be there today.",
">\n\nAnyone got a petition up?",
">\n\nFound this",
">\n\nThanks! Now let's hope 140,000 more people sign it!",
">\n\nHaha. What difference would that make?",
">\n\n\"That he's a liar who doesn't keep his promises!\"\n\".....Well, add it to the pile.\"",
">\n\nHe's a liar, but this was about the 142,000 people who voted for him, not about any random 142,000 people. \nYou just create a distraction from his actual lies by equating this nonsense with them.",
">\n\nEh, blame the headline for not including that important bit of info (Lying by Omission). Y'know, 'Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me'.\nI'm just here to make a quick joke.",
">\n\nAh, the Musk Method.\nOh wait he lied, and you’ve lied. \nSo…",
">\n\nMore like he's gonna do the same thing Musk is doing. I.e. step down because he sees the writing on the wall but now says its the \"will of the people\" doing so"
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