Not just the competition between poultry farms either, but competition with any other protein a person can eat. The closer eggs gets in price per calorie to mea

Not just the competition between poultry farms either, but competition with any other protein a person can eat. The closer eggs gets in price per calorie to meat (or nuts, cheese, etc), the less people are likely to choose eggs. There’s plenty of food out there, and a large part of the historic popularity of eggs has been their cheap price.