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At best, layers take 10 more weeks to produce. The egg price spiked almost a year ago. Focusing on meat vs egg chickens is beside the point. Cal-Maine’s profit
by jkestner 4y ago
At best, layers take 10 more weeks to produce. The egg price spiked almost a year ago.
Focusing on meat vs egg chickens is beside the point. Cal-Maine’s profit has skyrocketed, even as prices on other things have come back down, so clearly they’re not merely passing their expenses on to the consumer. Read the link at top.
- busterarm 4y agoCory Doctorow is no expert on the US egg/chicken industry. He's writing political opinion pieces here. Occasionally he writes science fiction. He also has big problems with hyperbole in his work. The egg price spiked almost a year ago because we've been dealing with H5N1 since over a year ago and it has only gotten worse since.
- p0pcult 4y agoYou're just wrong. https://www.agriculture.com/news/business/record-breaking-egg-profits-prompt-accusation-of-price-gouging https://www.agriculture.com/news/business/record-breaking-eg...
- busterarm 4y agoAn accusation brought to the FTC by an organization whose founding mission statement is that all of the problems in the farm industry are because of monopolistic corporations. Only a single member of their board/staff even owns a farm. It's literally their mission to make this claim.