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643 points throwaway5752 | 3 comments | 05 Feb 25 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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. fullstop ◴[05 Feb 25 20:05 UTC] No.42954345[source]▶
I highly doubt that the farmer down the street from me is testing for avian flu.

Their eggs are fantastic, though!

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2. azinman2 ◴[05 Feb 25 20:19 UTC] No.42954542[source]▶
It spreads so fast and is lethal enough that they probably don’t need to test, because they’d know quite quickly.
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3. fullstop ◴[05 Feb 25 20:32 UTC] No.42954689[source]▶
Likely. I guess if they held onto the eggs for a few days before selling them it would work. If the bird is still alive and the egg is a few days old, sell it.