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643 points throwaway5752 | 3 comments | 05 Feb 25 16:31 UTC | HN request time: 1.538s | 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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greenie_beans ◴[05 Feb 25 22:33 UTC] No.42956315[source]▶
within 7 hours of NYC you have a ton of amazing farms that supply NYC. many farms in the hudson valley but you'd be surprised how many farms all the way to vermont and maine that distribute their fresh produce to the city. you also have a lot of rural space within a day drive of NYC.

recently there was a massive flock of ducks that were culled at a farm in long island. all 19 million people don't eat eggs, but there are enough suburbs with green space surrounding the city that each of those neighborhoods could easily support their own egg production. that could surely help.

i have a big spreadsheet of farms within a day's drive of NYC if you would like me to help you find fresh eggs. i can share the distributors too, that would be a good resource if you want to help supply the 19 million people of NYC with fresh eggs.

> Where can the NYC metro area get fresh, local eggs to feed the 19 million people that live there?

trying to reduce this to something like "there is NO WAY this could ever work" isn't a strong argument.

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likeabatterycar ◴[06 Feb 25 00:15 UTC] No.42957304[source]▶
> within 7 hours of NYC

Literally the definition of "not local"

> help supply the 19 million people of NYC with fresh eggs

This sounds like it could be one of Kramer's schemes on Seinfeld, where he's loaded his rusted-out jalopy with 5k eggs to bring into the city to sell for a profit, but somehow they end up all over the freeway and chaos ensues.

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1. greenie_beans ◴[06 Feb 25 00:20 UTC] No.42957349[source]▶
> Literally the definition of "not local"

lol that's hilarious. you can keep arguing about the semantics of that while panicking about the factory farmed egg shortage. it won't bother me because i'll be feasting on food grown by farmers i know, all within a day's drive from me. if you are lucky then the regional distributors will pick up the slack thanks to the "not local" farms.

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2. likeabatterycar ◴[06 Feb 25 00:30 UTC] No.42957416[source]▶
Most people with jobs and families etc. don't have a day per week nor gas money to spare to drive seven hours each way to go egg foraging. It's great you can manage this luxury but it's just not practical and a fairytale life for 99% of people. Not to mention many people in NYC don't own a car.
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3. greenie_beans ◴[06 Feb 25 00:54 UTC] No.42957593[source]▶
do you have a substantive argument or more ridicule? because i can go for both.

would you like to see my spreadsheet of regional distributors who move food into NYC from small farms in the northeast? it's possible you've eaten this food. or would you like to see demographic and usda farming data when small farms were the primary food producers during a time when the NYC metro had a similary large population, before CAFOs and the centralized ag we know today? or were those people fed because they went egg foraging?