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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: 0.213s | 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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1. AngryData ◴[06 Feb 25 14:01 UTC] No.42962381[source]▶
To an extent, yeah. But farmland utilization has been dropping for decades. We are nowhere near not having enough farmland to feed people even if production efficiency was to drop significantly.