Food Shortage & Price Explosion Thread

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I'm sure that's taken out of context.

Probably a Mockingbird Network stooge was yammering about egg prices, implying - for the camera - how it's all Orange Man's fault; and Trump, being trumpy, lashed out.
 
Fatrat said:
Paid $2.99 for a dozen medium eggs yesterday, got two dozen. No doubt in my mind some gouging going on...a lot of much higher priced eggs too.
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The price of eggs is dropping dramatically. Coincidentally, these price drops began shortly after the Trump administration announced that they were going to open investigations into price fixing by the nation's largest egg producers.
 
CiscoKid said:
The price of eggs is dropping dramatically. Coincidentally, these price drops began shortly after the Trump administration announced that they were going to open investigations into price fixing by the nation's largest egg producers.
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Stopped the wholesale slaughter of animals in egg-producing operations, too.

Another gift from our Pubic Healf Ossifers.

The evil, misanthropic WASTE from the people controlling Dementia Joe...coupled to the central theme of his misAdministration, that of SEXUAL DEVIANCE...ought to put proof to the assertion that homosexuality is strongly correlated with mental disorders, including sociopathy.
 
CiscoKid said:
The price of eggs is dropping dramatically. Coincidentally, these price drops began shortly after the Trump administration announced that they were going to open investigations into price fixing by the nation's largest egg producers.
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Paid $5.97 a dozen yesterday, most stores a dozen is close to 9 dollars, I'm buying steak, it's cheaper.
 
Fatrat said:
Paid $5.97 a dozen yesterday, most stores a dozen is close to 9 dollars, I'm buying steak, it's cheaper.
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Not good steak.

I paid $9.97 for 18 eggs yesterday. The warehouse-style grocer I use, is slow to raise prices, and sometimes slow to drop them. They purchase from a poultry operation not far away, and the eggs are always cheaper, and fine in quality.

I'm back on a diet - intermittent fasting and modified keto - and eggs are a critical part of it.
 
Fatrat said:
Paid $5.97 a dozen yesterday, most stores a dozen is close to 9 dollars,
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My local store had a dozen eggs for $6.49
And 18 for $13.49

NO! I am not joking. YES! I understand fully the arithmetic. Maybe they are just playing a game.
 
Someone_else said:
My local store had a dozen eggs for $6.49
And 18 for $13.49

NO! I am not joking. YES! I understand fully the arithmetic. Maybe they are just playing a game.
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I used to see that a lot. The "Large Economy Size" was more per-unit than the small wasteful size.

Most states now require posting per-unit prices on everything - in small print, but for the math-illiterate, it helps.

Mostly, thinks I, it helps the morons who SET these prices - realize how stupid they look when they goof like that.
 
Someone_else said:
My local store had a dozen eggs for $6.49
And 18 for $13.49

NO! I am not joking. YES! I understand fully the arithmetic. Maybe they are just playing a game.
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They catch the same group of people that the Nigerian scammers do...
 

Shakedown at the Snack Counter: The Case for Street Pricing

Attending a baseball game with your kids or taking a flight to visit family is out of reach for millions of Americans. Between rising ticket prices and exorbitant concession costs, families are gouged left and right by billionaire team owners. Despite receiving billions in public funding, the...
groundworkcollaborative.org
 
Simple solution:

Watch a ball game...that your kid is playing. Little League or school games.

Better yet, officiate, or volunteer.

I never, ever, understood the appeal of Spectator Sportsball.
 
I was taken to Ebbets Field to watch the Dodgers beat the Phillies 2 to 1.

But aside from the score (and scoreboard where the Schaeffer Beer sign would show hits and errors) was the astonishing sight of seeing adult running out of the bullpen like children. I had never seen an adult run before. It shocked me. PeeWee Reese, Duke Snider, Roy Campanella... all just running around.
 
Two articles I enjoyed.

How egg prices became the symbol of Poland's successful transition to freedom

The fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 was the dramatic event that marked the fall of European communism. The first sign that freedom was actually
reason.com

These unusual egg alternatives might just get you through the egg shortage

As egg prices climb higher and grocery store shelves go bare, it's becoming more difficult for Americans to find or afford eggs. But worry not! The free
reason.com
 
Fatrat said:
Paid $5.97 a dozen yesterday, most stores a dozen is close to 9 dollars, I'm buying steak, it's cheaper.
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I've got four new pullets getting delivered next week. Not sure which day, but their new quarantine pen is ready for them. They will live there until they acclimate to the place and I make sure they are healthy, then get put in with the rest of the flock.
 
Price check vid.

Shocking prices at Sam's Club.. this is unbelievable​

Apr 28, 2025

29:03
 
*There is already a thread on socialism and welfare for the rich here (https://www.pmbug.com/threads/socialism-welfare-for-the-rich.4901/#post-84219) but I thought this would be a good fit for tis thread. Corporations gouging consumers while getting government handouts.

Opinion: Egg companies are getting government bailouts while price-gouging consumers​

Egg prices reached another record high last month. It now costs American shoppers an average of $6.23 for a dozen eggs — nearly a five-fold increase since 2020.

Yet while families have been squeezed by grocery sticker shock, agriculture corporations have been raking in record profits. Cal-Maine, the country’s largest egg producer, took in $509 million this quarter alone, tripling its profits from a year ago.

Gouging consumers is bad enough. But it gets worse: Cal-Maine and other ag companies were breaking the bank at the same time they were also quietly getting millions in taxpayer-funded relief payments from the federal government. Congress and the Trump administration must put a stop to this: No company that is getting corporate subsidies should be allowed to hike prices and extract windfall profits from American consumers.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/mar...S&cvid=c8fd3e17b8224d5b9f96b49fdd2d5863&ei=18
 
That's what happens with centralization of production - it leads to centralization of POWER, and then of corrupt dealings with the regulators they wish to capture. AND any OTHER way to obtain government rents.

Large corporate structures are necessary in some cases - ocean shipping, auto manufacture, industrial fabrication. But, eggs? The only reason to get big, is to adulterate the product (mRNA and other issues) or extract money and power from government and markets.

The big producers got bailed out - AND AFTER they obediently slaughtered huge flocks on the orders of the crazed Bidenistas.

The little operators? Out of business.
 
 

More from Joel Salatin / Polyface Farms. Dated : Feb 4, 2022

Doug Casey's Take - Joel Salatin: All of a Sudden, Even Billionaires Want to Farm​

Legendary lunatic farmer, Joel Salatin joins Doug Casey for an important and wide-ranging conversation.

1:29:53
 
I wonder how many planned ahead.

I'll admit that where I'm at, is more serendipity than planning. But, yes, I controlled myself, even when making the $$BIG BUX$$ twenty years ago.

I didn't buy that spendy big truck, the Compensator 350. When I bought a home in Buffalo, it was $53k. Probably $130k now - don't know; the house was demolished and a new structure on the lot, so I can't say.

But it wasn't demolished for its condition - just that it was primitive. Owner built, fifty years earlier.

I could have qualified for a $350k loan; but I had seen people who were house-poor. Not for me.

So I went from $120k twenty years ago, to $90k ten years ago, to now, $32,000 on a pension check.

I am making it. Easily, in retrospect. I have savings (stacking) and my expenses are below my income.

What I do NOT have, is a car payment or a mortgage, or credit-card bills.

I'd LOVE to get on a Carnival Cruise ship and be drunk in my stateroom, gambling every night, eating Prime Rib at ever dinner...but, you know? That's not in the cards. I had sirloin steak for dinner last night, and didn't need a SNAP card to buy it, either.

Prices WILL go up. Unless this government collapses (which is possible) I'll have my niggardly pension check, and when it doesn't cover, I can sell a coin here, a coin there.
 

Priced OUT OF PIZZA - The NEW ECONOMIC REALITY…​

Jul 13, 2025
The pizza business is a great way to measure the real economy because it shows us what real people can afford and cannot afford or are choosing to spend their money on right now. And it's a huge indicator of where the economy is headed. Pizza sales across the board both takeout and delivery and even frozen pizza are down and are starting to face the same struggles as the fast food industry.

16:52

00:00 The Rising Cost of Pizza: From Affordable to Luxury
02:50 The Impact of Rising Prices on Low-Income Pizza Consumers
04:54 Frozen Pizza Sales Decline as Prices Increase
07:22 Pizza Sales as a Barometer of the Real Economy
08:25 Federal Reserve Study: The Likelihood of Interest Rates Returning to Zero
10:11 Tariffs and Rising Prices: Impact on Businesses and Consumers
13:54 Rising Credit Card Delinquencies Signal Financial Stress in American Cities
 
Who, here, has read The Grapes of Wrath?

In broad strokes, that's what's happening today. The farm faces difficulties (or the widget maker faces tariffs or declining sales). The farm-owners borrow to keep going (or the widget workers are laid off, and put daily expenses on the credit card, or BNPL). The bank forecloses on the farm (or the credit-slave cannot keep his apartment with the rent quadrupled).

Then comes the journey, to California, the Promised Land (or to Dad's Acres, to move into the basement). In the transit, the buyers cannot afford even a hamburg sandwich at a truck stop, asking to buy a half-loaf of bread from the restaurant (or, cannot afford a Tombstone pizza out of Wally World).

History doesn't repeat - it rhymes.
 

How McDonald’s Lost Its Value Edge—and Is Trying to Claw It Back​

When Americans hit hard times, McDonald’s MCD 1.35%increase; green up pointing triangle has relied on a simple recipe to keep sales humming: being fast and cheap.

For many people these days, McDonald’s is just fast.

“Bro what happened to McDonald’s dollar menu?!?!” a Seattle woman asked on TikTok earlier this year, sharing images of a $12 McDouble meal and $3 fries.

The once-golden formula faltered. The number of fast-food customers who said the restaurant chain offered good value fell to its lowest point in a decade last year, according to a UBS Evidence Lab survey. Lower- and middle-income households have cut back on visits, contributing this year to the biggest drop in McDonald’s quarterly U.S. sales since 2020.

More:

 

Post in thread 'Tracking Trump's Tariffs and Turbulent Trade Talks'

World’s largest olive oil producer warns U.S. consumers of a double whammy from Trump tariffs​

  • Spain’s Deoleo, the world’s largest olive oil producer, says American consumers could be impacted by the Trump administration’s 30% tariff threat on EU imports.
  • “It is worth noting that approximately 95% of the olive oil consumed in the U.S. is imported, so such policies will affect end users,” Deoleo CEO Cristóbal Valdés told CNBC by email.
  • The EU is the leading producer, consumer and exporter of olive oil.
Spain’s Deoleo, the world’s largest olive oil producer, says U.S...
 
searcher said:

How McDonald’s Lost Its Value Edge—and Is Trying to Claw It Back​

When Americans hit hard times, McDonald’s MCD 1.35%increase; green up pointing triangle has relied on a simple recipe to keep sales humming: being fast and chea
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Elsewhere, a few days ago, we remarked on "enshittification."

It goes beyond digital. Fast food, like processed or prepared dishes sold in delis or out of cans or packages...they're enshittified.

I'd seen this 45 years ago at what I now call Booger King...or Burger Knave. The sandwich I call the Warper, has sliced tomatoes on it.

Ever wonder who slices so many tomatoes, or so evenly?

It's done on a plastic basket...with wire cutters. ALUMINUM wires. Yes, this was hardware Booger King sold its franchisees. The aluminum wire (aluminum frame, too) sliced tomatoes.

And of course, tomato juice is acidic. ALWAYS those tomato slices were BLACK with aluminum oxide. Wipe the skin parts with a small towel, and put them up for insertion into Warpers.

I didn't know back then how toxic injested aluminum was; but even then I was developing a (lifelong) weight problem. Even though I could have them free, I didn't eat many Warpers - I preferred the bacon-double-cheeseburger they had at the time.

But now, the corruption of quality is to where even today's Fallen Arches customers can taste it. Take the fries...please! Take them, I don't WANT them!

They lost the flavor when they quit frying in beef tallow - pressure from the junk-science busybodies. Tallow is FAR healthier than the seed oils they're now using.

One example.

We're gonna have to go back in time, further than the 1950s...we now live in a world where food at the stagecoach depot (ExxonMobil QuickMart) is suspect and the best way to travel is to pack a lot of your own beef jerky.
 
Beef prices are definitely exploding. At auction calves are now going for 1200 plus around here. Back a few years ago I was paying 1200 for a processed beef that overflowed my freezer. So much so that I was giving it away too friends and family.
2 weeks ago I did but 30 lbs of ground beef from Costco for 4.79 a lb. Not nearly as good as the beef I get from the local farmer but it was cheap.
Eggs I get for free from a friend. Have a neighbor that also has chickens and offers eggs at 3 bucks a dozen but since I get em for free I decline. I ate a boatload of egg salad and devolved eggs. Also chop them up for my salads which come most;y from my gardens. Western omelets I also eat a couple times a week. so my food bill is pretty low. As I mentioned in another thread my coffee bill is up 30% this year though.
 

Americans are worried about grocery prices again, and they’re making changes​

President Donald Trump campaigned on lowering grocery prices during the 2024 race and pledged that Americans are “going to be affording their groceries very soon.” But grocery prices have continued to tick higher after the election, and Americans are starting to change their shopping behavior as they grow more concerned about the economy.

More than half of Americans say they are stressed about food costs, according to poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research released this week. Fifty-three percent of people said grocery costs were a “major” stress, while 33% said they were a “minor” stress, according to the poll. Only 14% said groceries were not a source of stress.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a...e-making-changes/ar-AA1K9aM4?ocid=socialshare
 
Gates to the rescue, with his syn-meat plants.

mRNA already fortified into the product.
 
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