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Eggs US – Price – Chart

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mplanchard ◴[] 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 ◴[] 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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1. singleshot_ ◴[] No.42952775[source]
If all the birds are in a farm, would you have more or less inter species infection than if lots of people lived close to chickens?

What’s worse for the community, eggs from factories going way up in price due to supply shocks, or rapid and pervasive infection in the community?