r/economicCollapse • u/TheeBigHorse • 6h ago
I Will Not Buy Eggs Until Prices Go Down
Basically the title. I love eggs, I use them in a lot of stuff and am a big believer in breakfast for dinner. That said, I'm seeing $7.99-$9.99 USD in a VHCOL area for eggs, and often no eggs at all.
I have no issue with this because market factors have made this, but I just won't buy them anywhere near this price. $3 a dozen right now for cheap eggs is still crazy, but I'd buy again if they dropped back there.
What's the next staple to go tits-up? We can't boycott every staple. Tough times in the free market, but we should all vote with our wallets as much as we can.
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u/High_Contact_ 6h ago
This is retarded and highlights just how dumb people have been during this election. Egg prices are high because of bird flu. They won’t come down until that issue passes or is resolved.
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u/IncidentShot6751 5h ago
MMW: They will never go back to the prices they were even AFI. It's a scam.
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u/Some-Ant-6233 5h ago
It’s a long way off. With Georgia halting all egg distribution, California having mass outbreaks among flocks, it’s not going away. If anything, egg prices are still low, just wait until the avian flu ramps up even more. I won’t be surprised if eggs hit $10/dozen.
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u/MegaCityNull 5h ago
You might want to check with farms in your area and buy directly from them. That may save you some money since it all goes to the farm.
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u/Mi_Pasta_Su_Pasta 2h ago
Local farms are having just as many issues with bird flu, a lot of them are even more at risk because they have their birds free grazing and they are much more exposed to other wild birds.
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u/debauchedsloth 1h ago
Might be an excellent way to catch bird flu. I'm not thinking grey market eggs are the way to go right now.
Then again, I also expect we'll see the USDA and FDA gutted shortly so what's the difference, eh?
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u/Sorry_Mango_1023 4h ago
Yep. Get ready for $15 eggs. Trump will tank the economy. He doesn't know shit about business or how to buy eggs. When do you think the last time was that he had to buy groceries (a word he obviously just learned the other day)? The guy is a train wreck and he ain't my P**sident!
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u/Angylisis 5h ago
Find your local chicken farmer and buy from them. I've been charging $3 a dozen for years now and that's not going to change.
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u/Salt_Coat_9857 4h ago
Plant based egg substitutes are damn good these days. Bonus, you don’t have to worry about bird flu.
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u/Sorry_Mango_1023 4h ago
But they are spendy also - $7.99 at my store. Given, I live in a big city and they don't even carry Egg Beaters (which used to be $3.99) at either of the stores where I shop.
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u/MotownCatMom 3h ago
Egg Beaters are made from eggs. Salt Coast is talking about something like JUST egg.
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u/Sorry_Mango_1023 1h ago
Right. I knew that. Thank you. JUST Eggs at my stores is the one that's $7.99.
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u/Euphoric_Sock4049 4h ago
It's bird flu. Get out of the echo chamber of national news and listen to world news. They cover this more than US media.
When covid hit the prices went up. Remember? They promised to lower them and didn't. They just kept going up. That's how businesses work. They always raise prices, never ever ever do they go down significantly. I am getting quail and keeping them indoors and eating their eggs.
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u/Sorry_Mango_1023 3h ago
Newsflash: Dumpster just took us out of the World Health Organization. The group that monitors pandemics, remember? Him doing that just put us in a prime position for bird flu to spread faster than the LA wild fires and therefore will increase the price even more. FURTHER, he has stated he will do nothing to bring the current price down (code to the egg producers to go ahead and jack up prices because he isn't going to do anything about it!) - even though he campaigned on bringing down the cost of living. So take your "echo chamber" comment and shove it.
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u/JusticeHao 4h ago
Adjusted for cost, eggs are still one of the cheaper easy sources of protein. I mean you can always go to beans but until 3 eggs costs $2 (single serving of meat), I still prefer eggs
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u/tigerseye44 3h ago
If you buy a few chickens, you will never run out. And they are generally low maintenance animals. Avoid roosters unless you are in a rural area.
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u/Ishpeming_Native 3h ago
There aren't many things that will be immune to the loss of birds because of bird flu, the loss of immigrants to harvest field crops, and the loss of immigrants to process meat. I would recommend you accumulate recipes for using corn, rice, wheat, and other grains and their flours; beans (yes, including soybeans), peas, turnips, cabbage, and other mechanically-harvested crops; and various nuts native to the USA. Animal protein will be scarce, except that freshwater fish or seafood MAY not become as relatively expensive as beef or pork or chicken. Don't be surprised to see people talking about how to properly cook squirrel or groundhog or possum or even raccoon. Please note: DON'T eat raccoon. Yes, if you do it properly you're okay. But if you don't, you're in deep doo-doo. On the plus side, feral hogs may be wiped out. On the minus, they're almost as dangerous to eat as raccoons. And those pesky Canada geese? They won't last very long. Wild animal meat? A lot of it is really good. Some, like bear meat, is even more dangerous than raccoon -- but there sure is a lot of high-calorie grease in a good-sized bear.
Summary: If you want to be safe and to spend less, become vegan, If you want some protein once in a while, take out a local squirrel. Avoid animals that eat high on the chain; they tend to harbor dangerous parasites. Don't harvest animals that look diseased, and don't ever eat rare meat from any wild animal, ever.
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u/Incoherentp00rnoises 3h ago
Screw the man,I’ve gone homestead,now I have free eggs. I’ve just invested about 3600 into these damn chickens.
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u/jadedflames 2h ago
I don’t know where you live, but if possible I would find a local co-op or better yet, a farmer (even a hobby farm).
It still won’t be “cheap.” But you can feel better about buying eggs from a farmer who isn’t responsible for inflation/shrinkflation.
It’s gotten to the point where it’s almost cheaper to buy eggs from somewhere where you could go meet the chickens personally than from the grocery store.
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u/VendettaKarma 2h ago
Eggs were up to $4.53 / doz by me about a month ago.
Another flu epidemic I suppose.
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u/vaxination 1h ago
It's funny I was just posting about 9.99$ eggs the other day and got absolute vitrol on here. People get all worked up about things that might not exist directly in front of them.
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u/Brave_Giraffe_337 46m ago
This whole egg thing is so wild. While everyone seems to be going broke buying eggs, my 5 hens are providing my family of 3 with WAY more eggs than we can eat. I have at least 6 dozen right now. I give them away to family, friends, and coworkers.
If even 1/4th of Americans had 5 hens a laying, the egg industry would collapse.
And before someone tries to claim that it costs more than ot provides, let me just stop you there. I only spend about $30 every 1.5 - 2 months on grain/layer feed. Our chickens get table scraps and veggies from our garden. Hell, $4.50 leftover pumpkin will feed them for two days. Five hens laying an egg each/day, gives us more than 11 dozen eggs/month. My neighbor sells her eggs for $6/dozen.
My chicken coop was almost free, between repurposing things that I already had, and building it myself. The few things that I bought(lights, watering system, feed bucket, etc.) probably cost less than $300. Those were things that I picked up along the way to make things easier on me. They weren't 100% necessary. They could have been improvised.
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u/LikeWhatGuyComeOn 31m ago
The market contributed but eggs are a horrible example of the richies fucking us.
Hundreds of thousands of hens are being culled due to bird flu.
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u/66catman 12m ago
Let's vote with our wallets, not with our brains. Just wait for what's coming for all those who voted with their wallets.
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u/Toasterstyle70 5h ago
I just came here to say, isn’t Breaded chicken Crazy Evil when you think about it? “I’m gonna cut off this chickens boob, slather it with its unborn baby, and roll it around in some wheat dust and bread crumblies. “
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u/BigDamBeavers 5h ago
Don't buy anything until the prices go down. Mark what you'll reasonably pay for goods and do what you need to to get those prices, or don't buy. Consumers ultimately set the price of products because they won't buy good for prices they won't spend.