Summary
Major egg corporations may be using avian flu as a ruse to hike up prices, generating record profits while hurting American consumers, new research suggests.
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Egg prices soared to nearly $5 a dozen, rising 157% since before the avian flu outbreak, despite only a 9% drop in laying hens.
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Cal-Maine, controlling 20% of the US market, saw a sevenfold profit increase in 2023 compared to 2021.
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Over 166 million poultry have been culled, but critics say consolidation and slow flock replacement may inflate prices beyond the virus’s 12-24% direct cost.
Lawmakers urge investigations, while the Trump administration plans vaccines, reduced culling, and a $1bn avian flu fund to help stabilize costs.
What, price gouging, on eggs? What will they think of next, toilet paper? No wait, I bet they haven’t thought of making the package look the same, but put less product in it and charging the same? No wait, what if they changed the package and put less in it and charged more?
Nah … that will never work.
No wait, what if they changed the package and put less in it and charged more?
I was shopping a few weeks ago and noticed that every single package said something like ‘5 times as much as a standard roll’ or 10 times or 20 times. Nothing said it was a standard roll. Some quick math told me that they all have their own definition of what a standard roll is too.
Toilet paper math is the worst math.
For shits and giggles, check out the dimensions of a sheet.
Nice, Shits and giggles
I’ve noticed that 2x rolls of toilet paper usually have the most sheets per roll. 3x rolls tend to lean in to the fact that they are 3 play and use a standard 1 ply roll as their base point so they have the same sheet count. 2x rolls seem to use a standard 2 ply roll as their base so the standard roll is the same sheet count as a 1 ply roll but actually has close to double the sheet count of the 3x rolls. It’s weird.
I usually look at square feet.
Capitalism functioning as expected. Shocking.
Don’t worry everyone, the Consumer Protection Agency will take care of…
Oh, nvmd.
They were caught doing it the last time bird flu was a thing. Trump then fired the people who caught them, so, good luck
The industry has already been found liable for such behavior: https://apnews.com/article/egg-producers-price-gouging-lawsuit-conspiracy-be6919b3fb42bf2d9d3884d5e133e91d
People cannot keep up with the costs. The government isn’t doing anything. They let corporations get away with everything
sighs This is so very frustrating. 😖
What a hurtful thing to say about a “person”.
/s
Too bad price gouging isn’t prosecuted anymore.
Wow, this is truly unprecedented. We haven’t ever seen anything like this before!
Shocking I tell you. Shocking. 😮
Shocked Pikachu face.
$5/dozen is pretty good compared to most prices I’ve seen.
$5?! Where?! They’re $9.99 here in Los Angeles. :(
6.79 out here in rural nebraska, they were 3.50 a month ago
$16.49 in Brooklyn yesterday
For real, Seattle is like this too. We’re going to be paying $1/egg soon!
Kirkland Costco, admittedly 2-3 weeks ago. Something like $9.59 for two dozen.
Something between $9 and $10 on the price tag is what I remember.
No idea what it is now.
Same in solidly red Bible belt area I live in. $21 for 30.
They’re $11 in southern California.
I saw $10 at my regular store in Ohio last week. The same was $2 three years ago. That wasn’t even good “free range” eggs although I don’t believe that marketing. Backyard chickens are where it is at.
$11 in Western WA state too.
This is why I refuse to buy eggs until prices go down to normal. I’m not going to reward them for taking advantage.
Lol I just don’t buy eggs now. I could buy any other protein for the price of eggs now
How can a country be in such a hysteria over egg prices? Don’t they have anything to eat but eggs?
Don’t be dense.
It’s a symptom of an overall problem.
The only time i hear about egg prices is on the internet and now it’s a rebuttal of all the trump propaganda that was used against Biden
“No shit.”
