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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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1. heavyset_go ◴[05 Feb 25 19:24 UTC] No.42953744[source]▶
The disease affects wild bird populations heavily and is just as transmissible to disparate flocks as it is larger flocks. Breeders tend to keep their flocks isolated, often for genetic reasons, and because they're their cash cows versus just cattle.

I generally agree with you about centralization and monocultures, just in this case I don't think it's really going to change things.