Back when egg prices remained securely under $2 a dozen in 2021, Nevada joined several other states concerned about animal welfare in requiring cage-free eggs.
Now four years later, a dozen eggs costs an average of nearly $5 in the U.S. because of the lingering bird flu, so Nevada passed a law the governor signed Thursday that will allow the state to suspend that law temporarily in hopes of getting residents some relief at the checkout counter.
$ 6.99 for an 18 pack of large white eggs yesterday morning at my local Walmart.. Insane
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What’s really insane is shopping at the Wal-Marts.
DeleteWell I don't recall asking your opinion about where I shop, do you have anything useful to share..
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We've got 2 supermarkets here in Lafayette, a Piggly Wiggly and a Walmart. I prefer to do my shopping at the Pig, but they don't have the variety of Walmart or the number of choices. Guess where I do most of my shopping.
DeleteWe have several different grocery stores, IGA affiliates, and I do stop in occasionally to pick up stuff but I do the majority of my grocery shopping at Walmart because like you mine has the biggest varieties of items, it's prices are overall lower and because it's the closest store to my home... I have to drive past Walmart to get to the others ..
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Since the mom-and-pop closed we have DG or a 45 minute ride in any direction so we stock up no matter where we go.
DeleteStates (and corporations) should learn that California should not be deciding the consumer's choices for other states. This would be a great ballot box issue for voters to send the message to their legislators. Don't Californicate Us !
ReplyDeleteUrsula Le Guin wrote a short story called 'The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas' about a utopian society whose prosperity depends on the perpetual misery of a single child who lives in a dank basement. When citizens are old enough to know the truth, they are shown the child, and most, though initially shocked and disgusted, ultimately agree to this injustice that secures the happiness of the rest of the city.
ReplyDeleteThose birds live in battery cages somewhat bigger than a shoe box. It can't be pleasant.
But I like eggs in the morning.
I wish that Michigan would get rid of this law. My local stores have a dozen eggs for $6.99. Not 18 for that price, just a dozen.
ReplyDelete8 bucks for 24 cage-free liquid chikins at oregon Costco. Limit three packs.
ReplyDeletebyrd flu my ass -
ReplyDeleteaffects chickens, cows, humans ... nothing else ?!
$4.98 a dozen at our local Ingles Market. That's for Eggland's Best. I think the store brand is maybe fifty cents or a dollar cheaper.
ReplyDeleteNevada: won't work. You pass a TEMPORARY change, and any farmer knows that his costs are going to go right back up when it expires. And then so do prices. The problem is that Nevada wants lower prices, but at a higher cost of production, and wants the grower to eat the difference in his (lower) profits. Nope. Been there. Fool me once.....
ReplyDeleteWhen the cage-free egg laws went in to effect, where did all the cages go? If farms are sitting on all that empty overhead then great, put it back into use. What about all the farms that either folded up shop or scrapped the bird houses believing they were going to be a long term liability? It's not like flipping a friggin' light switch. There they are, nope they're gone.....There they are, oops, now they're gone again..........
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