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643 points throwaway5752 | 3 comments | 05 Feb 25 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 1.288s | source
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mplanchard ◴[05 Feb 25 16:43 UTC] No.42951168[source]▶
Fresh, local eggs have remained around the same price here. While more expensive than eggs from large producers in normal times, they are now often cheaper.

This is a great reminder of how important it is to support local farmers and small operations, which increase the resilience of the system as a whole.

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afavour ◴[05 Feb 25 16:54 UTC] No.42951379[source]▶
This is also a great defense against something like bird flu. When you centralize operations a disease can spread through a population like wildfire. When it's a number of smaller, separate operations the impact is lessened.
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oceanplexian ◴[05 Feb 25 17:19 UTC] No.42951847[source]▶
Actually the inconvenient truth is that it's not.

Free range birds are able to interact and spread the disease more easily than the caged birds which can be quarantined. At least in my location all the cage free inventory is totally wiped out.

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1. boplicity ◴[05 Feb 25 17:36 UTC] No.42952134[source]▶
Cage free does not mean they're out in a field. It means all of the birds are in one crowded space. Eggs that come from birds that genuinely roam the pasture are exceedingly rare.
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2. fsckboy ◴[05 Feb 25 18:36 UTC] No.42953045[source]▶
but hides from the foxes would be more plentiful?
3. darth_avocado ◴[05 Feb 25 19:10 UTC] No.42953534[source]▶
There’s cage free, then there’s pasture raised and then there’s regenerative farming. All of them don’t include chickens roaming around as freely as you think they do. Cage free especially just means they’re stuffed like sardines in giant barn, but are not in cages. Pasture raised often means they’re still in netted coops that move around on a pasture. I think regenerative farming comes closest to allowing chickens to roam around, but it’s still not freely.