Just to complement, in recent times, there's been points were there is no milk for a month, or more... Toiler paper, flour, bottled water, and a few other items... the one thing I have never seen a shortage of is beer.
https://shortstoryamerica.com/pdf_classics/london_one_thousa...
Jesus, what a lot of market concentration. Alone the lack of genetic diversity... because there's no way in hell that such a large company doesn't want only the most profitable chicken they can get, and only that kind of chicken.
> What the deputies remembered most about the Warwick farm, though, was the time in 2011 when a fire killed 300,000 hens.
And that is just as harrowing. How the fuck are such large stables even allowed, why does regulation not demand separate stables and enough clearance to prevent the spread of fire?
But it's just chicken, eh, who cares about them...
[1] https://www.nasdaq.com/de/market-activity/stocks/calm/divide...
Someone tell me if i'm wrong, but I've always understood a "perfect" orb to be basically a sphere shape, so what's with this about eggs being perfect orbs?
throw0101c•7mo ago
* https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/us-border-officials-hav...
* http://archive.is/https://thelogic.co/news/canada-us-trade-w...
* https://archive.is/https://www.wsj.com/articles/mexico-egg-s...
* https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/us-border-fentanyl-eggs-1.7486...
zahlman•7mo ago
It's been very strange to me hearing all these reports about egg prices in the US, because all the other meat and dairy items still seem to be cheaper for you guys (I've found myself quite envious in the past).
Spooky23•7mo ago
We also have consolidation of grocers and elimination of wholesale distribution, so the thousand cuts add up. You see it when you compare a grocery like Aldi that does cost plus pricing to a chain like Hannaford or Albertsons that does more fuckery with segmentation and pricing. In January, my local Hannaford was charging $9/doz for eggs, while Aldi ranged from $4-6.
Beef and dairy have more market dynamics, although dairy is slowly but surely getting strangled and regional dairy is dying out.