Summary
Egg prices in the U.S. have reached a record high of $4.95 per dozen amid a severe bird flu outbreak that has led to the culling of millions of egg-laying chickens.
The shortage is compounded by rising feed, fuel, and labor costs, as well as increased demand and stricter cage-free regulations in several states.
Consumers face empty shelves, surcharges, and limited availability, with some areas pricing cartons at $10 or more.
Prices are expected to continue rising, especially with Easter demand.
Mitchell and Webb situation - Chicken farmer
“You see that? It’s made of chicken. It’s actually made of chicken. You kill it; you got free chicken, you can sell it to people. Or… don’t kill it, and fucking eggs come out of their arses! Fucking hell!”
They just got the one hole for everything so the eggs coming out of their ass is as accurate as saying they kinda pee them out.
Yeah I don’t think the joke would be improved by having Mitchell’s character be accurate about the chickens anatomy. In fact, I think it might ruin it a bit if he wasn’t as excitedly silly and incredulous.
But yes I take your point about what terms we use to refer to cloakas.
Poor Canada, egg prices are the same. /s
I paid $3.93 CAD for a dozen yesterday.
Ontario NoFrills?
Save on is usually more expensive than other places
My close save on (company from graphic) seems to have trouble keeping eggs in stock, plus it’s like $8-9 for free range which I usually try to buy. Their quality (used to be quite orange now more dull, not as yellow as most eggs still) has gone down I hope the chickens are treated better.
$4.95? They’re freaking $10 here.
Third world country. Here in Russia it is ten times cheaper. And then we have some healthcare.
Amusingly, the pasture raised eggs are now the same price as the regular eggs at Aldi.
I have a coworker who keeps about 250 chickens at her house and sells the brown eggs for $5 a dozen. Meanwhile, a dozen white eggs at Shop-Rite are $10.
Different coloured eggs are different prices in the US?
Yeah. Generally, brown is more expensive than white, organic is more expensive than non-organic, free-range is more expensive than caged etc. The current situation has rendered everything fucking expensive, though.
Hmm - here in England the colour of an egg doesn’t make any difference to its price, or to its taste. But yeah, organic and free range usually cost more. Larger eggs cost more too. I’ve not checked the exchange rate but I’d say it costs about $6 for a dozen free range eggs.
I’d love to keep hens myself but it’s not feasible. I have friends who live on a farm where the chickens just kind of wander about and I swear their eggs taste better than shop bought.
her house?? She must live on a ranch or something
The eggs are pretty small.
Damn, it sucks that you have to eat eggs. It sure would be nice if there were other things you could eat, alas you have to keep buying eggs and bitching about it the whole time instead of just eating something else.
maybe we should just let everyone eat cake?
Eat a bagel or something jesus christ. Nobody is forcing you to buy eggs.
Boohoo the omnis have to consider switching to a different breakfast for a few months, this is just like mass starvation. They don’t sell 5000 other things at the grocery store, eggs are the only staple food and now we have to spend 90% of our daily income on them.
Your preferred breakfast being a bit more expensive while other things that were already cheaper are still cheaper is not comparable to a french peasant being unable to pay for their only staple food. Get a grip.
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Canned white tuna is now cheaper with more protein per dollar than eggs where I am.
Would you mind saying if you’re coastal? It would be extra funny if you’re in Nebraska or something.
Could be Colorado. They’re over $12/dozen. Batshit crazy here.
Neighbor just brought over a dozen since they cannot use all theirs. We may end up passing some on, since eggs take a long time to get used up in my household.
I don’t want this to be the new toilet paper, at least not at my house. :)
I live in a Philly suburb (sorta coastal) and they’re $10 a dozen right now.
Which they just had a recall on.
Plus an extra 2000% of your RDA for mercury!
Cheapest eggs for my grocery store are $5.65.
Bruh. I just paid $11.83 for a dozen (granted they were organic pasture raised but still)
I just saw an 18 pack for $14.75 yesterday at my local grocery. A dozen is $10, and that’s for the white eggs, not the brown ones. Luckily we have a Grocery Outlet that had a dozen for $7.50, but holy shit.
2 packs of 18 used to be $7 bucks. Now one pack of 18 is $8.
I’ve stopped buying eggs.
“i just bought the always high priced ones at a high price!”
Amazing.
They used to be $6 🤷♂️
Meanwhile, my small backyard chicken flock (smallish coop with an enclosed and roofed run) eats the organic trash from our kitchen, and then they give me between 5-8 eggs per day. Literally, I picked up 7 eggs yesterday even though nights are around -10 degrees C. It’s a miracle.
That’s not a miracle that’s literally just how chickens work.
You friend, ARE a miracle. There’s only one of you, only one known planet in the entirety of the known universe where you could even have come to be. Same for the chickens. Miraculous!!
I wish! It was 60 F here last night and these ladies still ain’t got enough daylight to start laying.
Why are you giving trash to your chickens?
I really hope you’re vegan otherwise your ignorance on this topic is pretty staggering.
Good job on answering a plain question like an asshole, give yourself a pat on the back for a well done job.
I just asked why he is giving what he calls refuse, when most people with chickens gives them corn, grain mix and mealworms.
$5 for 12 eggs? Where in the US is that?
Prices in Ireland for 12 eggs are €3.75 for free range or €2.70 for barn
I’m in Colombia. My local grocery store has them for 23 mil pesos ($5.58 USD at today’s exchange rate) for 30 eggs. That comes out to $2.38 USD per dozen.
The tienda by my home has them cheaper, but I can’t check their prices online to verify the exact cost.
How much for you to paint them to look like toy eggs and ship to the US?
Prices here in Norway are… uh, I don’t know. I bought a large pack yesterday, and the checkout total was about what I expected. So normal, I guess. Probably same-ish as Ireland.
$4.95 for one egg is ridiculous. I won’t pay more than $4.50 an egg. 😤
“It’s one banana, Michael, how much could it cost? 10 dollars?”
Enough already
It’s one quote, @phubarr@lemmy.world, how often could you have seen it? Ten thousand times?
I’ve been paying $8ish for 12 the past 6 years. Apparently it’s cheap subsidized eggs that are expensive now. That’s because of bird flu no?
Eggs at $5.00 a dozen: price per unit, 41.7 cents.
50 Wincester 9 mm FMJ rounds are $14.99. Price per unit, a bit under 30 cents.
Bullet omelette?
How did you know?
Just a reminder, if you’re like me and never even look at organic stuff, check the organic eggs. They’re cheaper at my store right now.
Why not look at organic stuff?
I never look at organic stuff because while they may legitimately avoid pesticides and other chemicals, there is no scientifically demonstrated benefit to organic produce, and it costs a lot more.
There’s an implication that organic is healthier and just better, but there’s no evidence of that.
Like I could buy milk from cows that have nice names and listen to music while being milked, and that might make me feel better, but the nutritional quality of the milk is the same.
And in some cases, the flavor is dramatically different for better or worse. For example, I cannot stand organic bananas, and I eat bananas almost every day. Something about the organic ones just taste so off to me. Can’t really pinpoint why - it’s been a while. But it’s stuck with me ever since I tried one.
Yeah.
Organic produce is often inferior, which kinda stands to reason because all the tOxIc ChEmIcALs are added to improve the product.
I mean, it’s obvious that adding fertilizer (phosphate) is going to produce bigger plumper tastier fruit and vegetables?
I buy organic cauliflower not because I prefer organic but because it’s all my local green grocer sells. It always has these little green caterpillars. I don’t let that bother me but I have noticed that it doesn’t seem to keep quite as long. Whether that’s because the caterpillars munching bits of it makes it deteriorate quicker, or it takes longer to get from the farm to me, or it’s a different variety, I really don’t know. It’s def not objectively as good as the non-organic version.
As an aside, Bananas (like most fruit and veg) has been heavily domesticated by humans and the original from the pleistocene was pretty awful from the sounds of it with much less edible flesh and much bigger and harder seeds.
Usually organic stuff is 2-4x more expensive around here, so my eyes tend to slip right over them.
Because being anti-GMO is hateful bigotry. Things like golden rice have already saved and enhanced millions of lives, it’s just that the benefit goes to poor people with dark skin.
