$3.99 here. I can almost guarantee what happened to drop the price is that they stopped testing for bird flu. Milk also halved in price at the same time. I haven’t seen milk this cheap in 20+ years.
Tests don’t cost money. Positive tests cost money, because then you have to kill a bunch of chickens to stop the spread of the disease. Stymieing the spread of bird flu requires both higher egg prices and costly culling for farmers. If the admin stops testing, egg prices come down because farmers can’t be told to cull chickens which they don’t know are sick. So egg prices come down. But also bird flu spreads out of control and we might create a new pandemic.
actually that’s quite normal if something like a disease were to come through a region. The variability in price by region is inherent in the deterioration of all food stuffs. It’s why avocados are cheaper in the SW and oranges are cheaper in the SE. Eggs are also regional, but they’re in every region. This is why there’s wildly different prices in eggs, because bird flu might be wreaking havoc 2 states over, but isn’t a big deal where you live.
That being said, eggs dropping 50% and milk by more than 100% in any one market? That is unusual market behavior.
Except that that’s not how market adjustments work, buddy. They never go down that abruptly, pal. They adjust slowly to find the happy medium that maximizes profits, guy. That big of a drop in that short of a time isn’t a market adjustment, friendo. You’ve got a lot to learn before you start talking down to people, champ.
Food safety inspection (including bird flu testing) does not make up that much of the cost of eggs.
Capitalists are passing their fuckup costs in to you. A shitload if birds died any you paid to float them until new birds were ready. Why is this so hard to understand? Why are you subtly astroturfing this “actually it’s Biden’s fault because they did egg testing” shit? Fuck off with this neocon propaganda.
It is Biden’s “fault”, in that testing for bird flu requires farmers to cull chickens (many of which would test negative) in order to stop the spread of the disease. This would result in an egg shortage, and therefore a price increase. This is unfortunate for egg prices, but is necessary to protect the egg supply long term and to ensure the bird flu doesn’t jump to humans and kill us all. But Biden didn’t order this, so much as he simply allowed existing government agencies to do their jobs.
Additionally, we should give the Biden admin credit for increasing the power of the FTC to investigate more possible instances of collusion and price fixing, like what may have happened with eggs.
If Trump stops bird flu testing, we would very much expect egg prices to come down - at the expense of allowing bird flu to run rampant.
I feel like i have not seen milk move in price since the start of covid. Before covid I could get it for $3 at costco and $4 in stores. Now it’s been about $5-$6 ever since.
$3.99 here. I can almost guarantee what happened to drop the price is that they stopped testing for bird flu. Milk also halved in price at the same time. I haven’t seen milk this cheap in 20+ years.
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Tests don’t cost money. Positive tests cost money, because then you have to kill a bunch of chickens to stop the spread of the disease. Stymieing the spread of bird flu requires both higher egg prices and costly culling for farmers. If the admin stops testing, egg prices come down because farmers can’t be told to cull chickens which they don’t know are sick. So egg prices come down. But also bird flu spreads out of control and we might create a new pandemic.
Bird flu is very deadly for chickens. Testing or not testing doesn’t affect mortality rate. It’s 75%-100% either way.
Not testing would mean they are not culling before it spreads therefore more dead chickens and fewer eggs.
This is not the same as testing cows where there is much lower mortality rate. In cows it results in lower milk production.
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That’s not normal market behavior, something changed.
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actually that’s quite normal if something like a disease were to come through a region. The variability in price by region is inherent in the deterioration of all food stuffs. It’s why avocados are cheaper in the SW and oranges are cheaper in the SE. Eggs are also regional, but they’re in every region. This is why there’s wildly different prices in eggs, because bird flu might be wreaking havoc 2 states over, but isn’t a big deal where you live.
That being said, eggs dropping 50% and milk by more than 100% in any one market? That is unusual market behavior.
They’re paying people to take milk now?
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Except that that’s not how market adjustments work, buddy. They never go down that abruptly, pal. They adjust slowly to find the happy medium that maximizes profits, guy. That big of a drop in that short of a time isn’t a market adjustment, friendo. You’ve got a lot to learn before you start talking down to people, champ.
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OJ is at $3/qt here, but a gallon of no name from concentrate is 9.
EPI reports profits hundreds of percents higher, every year. They are nonpartisan.
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Food safety inspection (including bird flu testing) does not make up that much of the cost of eggs.
Capitalists are passing their fuckup costs in to you. A shitload if birds died any you paid to float them until new birds were ready. Why is this so hard to understand? Why are you subtly astroturfing this “actually it’s Biden’s fault because they did egg testing” shit? Fuck off with this neocon propaganda.
It is Biden’s “fault”, in that testing for bird flu requires farmers to cull chickens (many of which would test negative) in order to stop the spread of the disease. This would result in an egg shortage, and therefore a price increase. This is unfortunate for egg prices, but is necessary to protect the egg supply long term and to ensure the bird flu doesn’t jump to humans and kill us all. But Biden didn’t order this, so much as he simply allowed existing government agencies to do their jobs.
Additionally, we should give the Biden admin credit for increasing the power of the FTC to investigate more possible instances of collusion and price fixing, like what may have happened with eggs.
If Trump stops bird flu testing, we would very much expect egg prices to come down - at the expense of allowing bird flu to run rampant.
I can’t even formulate an argument to your unintelligible drivel. Go back to the flat earth hole you crawled out of.
I feel like i have not seen milk move in price since the start of covid. Before covid I could get it for $3 at costco and $4 in stores. Now it’s been about $5-$6 ever since.
Milk prices have crept up at our grocery chains, remained stable for the last year at dollar stores, but still up from COVID days