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643 points throwaway5752 | 3 comments | 05 Feb 25 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.535s | source
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mcv ◴[05 Feb 25 16:59 UTC] No.42951481[source]▶
What's going on with eggs in the US? The whole world had high inflation after Covid, so that's not US-specific, but eggs tripling in price? That is extreme. I don't think my (Dutch, free-range organic) eggs went up more than 25%.
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barbarr ◴[05 Feb 25 17:04 UTC] No.42951595[source]▶
Bird flu, made worse by concentrated farming of chickens. Those operations are basically disease factories and some bird flus come from them.
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ars ◴[05 Feb 25 17:10 UTC] No.42951710[source]▶
That's actually not true.

Bird flu comes from wild birds, not factory farming. Chickens get it when wild birds land near them due to free range laws.

The solution (possibly temporary) is to confine the chickens in sealed buildings so they can't contact the wild birds.

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misantroop ◴[05 Feb 25 17:34 UTC] No.42952097[source]▶
And the reason why it spreads so well is still concentrated industrial farming.
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1. danem ◴[05 Feb 25 19:01 UTC] No.42953428[source]▶
So you're suggesting there's some other viable model of egg production that would deliver eggs at 2021 prices? People want cheap eggs. Saying, "well if we just adopted a decentralized, more resource intensive model we wouldn't have problems with bird flu" doesn't address that concern.
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2. sethammons ◴[05 Feb 25 22:02 UTC] No.42955910[source]▶
I think it was Food, Inc, a documentary from a number of years ago. Joel Salatin of Polyface Farms talks about factory farming and Salatin often argues that industrial farming is not necessarily more cost-effective and that his method is both profitable and environmentally sustainable.
3. acdha ◴[06 Feb 25 02:56 UTC] No.42958461[source]▶
People want lots of things to be cheap but that doesn’t mean it’s sustainable. Here in the mid-Atlantic we’ve seen the same thing others mention: the local, non-factory farms prices haven’t changed in years but the supermarket stuff went from being cheaper to more expensive.

The theory that optimizing for the lowest price might other negative effects isn’t exactly novel: we’ve seen that in many other areas, and if you’ve ever been anywhere near a factory farm it’s enough to put you off of eating eggs.