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Eggs US – Price – Chart

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643 points throwaway5752 | 1 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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likeabatterycar ◴[05 Feb 25 18:07 UTC] No.42952639[source]▶
Ok, but, you can't feed 340M people with "fresh, local eggs". While it's nice you buy six eggs at a time from Joe Farmer off the back of his '72 Ford, but factory farms are an unfortunate necessity to feed everyone that isn't so privileged.
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greenie_beans ◴[05 Feb 25 20:07 UTC] No.42954369[source]▶
> you can't feed 340M people with "fresh, local eggs"

i think the opposite, i would like to hear a good argument why you can't.

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wyre ◴[05 Feb 25 20:22 UTC] No.42954583[source]▶
Where can the NYC metro area get fresh, local eggs to feed the 19 million people that live there?

This is an extreme example, but still applies to every other metro area too.

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1. _joel ◴[05 Feb 25 20:37 UTC] No.42954742{3}[source]▶
Why am I imagining high rise chicken coups now? Vertical farming, take note :)