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...
 
groundworkcollaborative.org

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...
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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.

reason.com

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
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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
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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
 
searcher said:
*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
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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.
 
Hit Shoprite earlier today. Was a bit surprised to see how stocked up each isle was. I think this was the first time in several years I've seen totally full shelves. Prices were ok. I only went after stuff that was on sale, so my bill was good considering what I bought.
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searcher said:

Food Shortages In 2025? 20% Of U.S. Food Imported; Impact Of Tariffs | Joel Salatin​

Nov 17, 2024 #food #economy #tradewars

Joel Salatin, co-owner of Polyface Farms and best-selling author, discusses the future of agriculture in America, and the solution to America's health and obesity problems.


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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.


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searcher said:
Jun 12, 2025 #news #economy #inflation
America is facing a cost of living crisis. "CBS Evening News" spoke to three Americans about what it's like trying to stay afloat as everyday costs surge.

Americans open up about their struggles to afford basic needs

00:00 Teacher on $37,000 salary shows what surviving as a single mom really looks like
2:36 Police officer shares struggle to buy first home amid rising costs
5:04 70-year-old widow on Social Security can't afford to retire
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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.
 
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