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643 points throwaway5752 | 1 comments | 05 Feb 25 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | 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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lukas099 ◴[05 Feb 25 17:32 UTC] No.42952068[source]▶
Free range birds cannot be quarantined?
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Garvi ◴[05 Feb 25 17:42 UTC] No.42952211[source]▶
The problem is the interaction with wild birds.
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1. dendrite9 ◴[05 Feb 25 18:04 UTC] No.42952593[source]▶
This is my understanding from a former poultry farmer, but of course he had a reason to blame the other types of chicken raising for bird flu issues. I think both can be true, and you're in effect gambling different ways with each strategy.