Egg prices skyrocket to record levels

[IronLionZion]

The prices are higher than during Biden. Are we going to see Trump "I did that" stickers on everything with high prices?



If any DUers want news you can use: Trader Joe's, Wegmans, and some other retailers are selling eggs at a loss hoping to make it up on other products.

[Wonder Why]

1. Just because an egg costs more than a steak, doesn't mean they are high. Some people like gourmet eggs.

[GiqueCee]

2. Curiouser and curiouser...

... the price of chicken doesn't seem to have kept pace with the skyrocketing price of eggs. I know there are layers and there are meat birds, but the sordid history of industrial farming raises big, fat questions, nonetheless.

[IronLionZion]

4. Meat chickens are quite young. So less risk of catching and spreading bird flu

We eat sick chickens. We eat chickens that died of bird flu.

Egg layers are much older and more susceptible to flu. It takes longer to replenish them.

[mwmisses4289]

3. Glad I can't eat eggs anymore.

[Pull_Left]

5. Trump doesn't care

because it's the corporations that are profiting.

Cal-Maine – the only major publicly held egg producer, with brands including Land O’ Lakes and Egg-Land’s Best – kept its production stable at approximately 1.1 billion dozen eggs a year from 2021 to 2024, according to the farmer-led nonprofit’s analysis.

During that span, company’s gross profits were up 237% and shot up by 646% from 2021 to 2023.

Instead of increasing their flocks, the five companies have plowed their windfalls into gobbling up their competitors, according to the letter. Cal-Maine Foods acquired six companies in 2023 alone.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/12/business/us-biggest-egg-producer-is-raking-in-profits-as-supermarket-prices-surge-farm-advocacy-group/

[Linda ladeewolf]

6. They need to close the sheds where they raise chickens

For meat, but especially for eggs. The chicken houses around here are too open, no screening so the wild birds can fly right in. Since there is plenty of food they don’t even have to leave. If one of these birds is sick and falls to the floor, the chickens are usually willing to eat it, they will generally eat anything.

[IronLionZion]

7. Liberal open borders are causing bird flu

Build a border wall to keep out birds!

[Linda ladeewolf]

8. Gee, I wonder!

I know, a giant 18 mile high net that encircles the entire US. That’ll do it! When do you start?

[MagaSmash]

9. No Affordable Eggs anymore in America. Are we great yet?