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643 points throwaway5752 | 1 comments | 05 Feb 25 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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bluedino ◴[05 Feb 25 16:59 UTC] No.42951491[source]▶
Michigan here, this is has been made worse by a new law requiring all eggs to be 'cage-free'. I think I paid $9 for the cheap store-brand eggs (18) last week.

And that is, if they even have any eggs at the store. I've been to Wal-mart and Kroger when the entire section is empty with a sign saying there are egg supply issues.

It's also winter so my 'chicken farmer friends' are low on eggs, when it's cold the chickens don't lay nearly as many.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2024/12/18/m...

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rafram ◴[05 Feb 25 17:30 UTC] No.42952042[source]▶
If it were actually impossible to have affordable eggs without confining chickens to tiny cages for their entire lives, that would be a damning indictment of our entire food system.

But luckily that isn't actually the case. The price difference between cage-free and "caged" eggs is negligible. I'm in New York City, not known for its local egg production, and I can still get cage-free eggs for $4/dozen. Kroker/Walmart is just ripping you off.

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ge96 ◴[05 Feb 25 17:32 UTC] No.42952064[source]▶
I think the most brutal thing is when the male chicks are immediately sent into a shredder damn. Out of sight out of mind

That's where I can be a proponent of lab-grown meat without consciousness

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1. petsfed ◴[05 Feb 25 19:28 UTC] No.42953795[source]▶
My rooster was a jerk, but he deserved to die the way he did, which was the way he lived: picking fights with things that could kill him in an instant if they bothered to care. I'm glad that he died fighting the beak and talons of an osprey or bald eagle, and not to the remorseless (literal) machinery of market efficiency.