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AP: Egg prices continue to hit records as Easter and Passover approach https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/egg-prices-continue-to-hit-records-as-easter-and-passover-approach #eggs #inflation #birdflu
@ai6yr
I'm not one to start any rumours ... 
... but I reckon UK eggs are being smuggled into the US.
Eggs have been rare in shops during the last month and I don't think we're having significant supply issues. The only thing to do is not spray the lion mark on them.
Even worse, if they are being smuggled then they are probably being flown to the US (by jet!).
We're in Milo Minderbinder territory, now!
egg smuggling is an art form
@miguelpergamon @ai6yr Milo Minderbinder?
@miguelpergamon @ai6yr We're at the point where eggs are maybe not longer cheap protein in the US. Interestingly, broiler chickens haven't been nearly as impacted as layer farms, perhaps due to differences in how they're raised/managed (usually in closed barns to which other birds can't easily gain access). I'd love to see a comparison of protein types and associated cost per gram. Is the chicken close to being cheaper than the egg?
Here in Ireland I saw a dozen medium eggs for 2 Euro.
@Infoseepage @miguelpergamon @ai6yr
IIRC, average age at slaughter (peak profit) is 5~6 weeks for a meat chicken, 30 weeks for an egg-layer. (Different breeds, not interchangeable.)
So, a chicken meat farm that culls because of avian flu is back in production in a month. An egg farm takes 4+ months to recover. IF they can get the sex-selected chicks from the chick factories.
@WellsiteGeo @Infoseepage @miguelpergamon @ai6yr Also, meat chickens and eggs are in different price-fixing cartels. It's not purely supply and demand when there are firms with pricing power. A monopoly or cartelized oligopoly will intentionally restrict output and quality to sell at higher prices. It's not that the industry can't recover quickly, but that the flu culls provide cover for their economic manipulation--so people don't as easily notice a staple food item is no longer a commodity.
@Infoseepage @miguelpergamon @ai6yr
€2 /dozen in Eire?
I buy 10 eggs for £1.33 at Lidl UK.
@WellsiteGeo @miguelpergamon @ai6yr That was at a village Aldi for a dozen medium. Largest were 2.60, I think. Probably get better prices at bigger stores in places with competition.
@miguelpergamon @ai6yr I definitely like the Catch-22 reference.
@miguelpergamon @ai6yr If I hadn't knew better, I would thought this is an elevator pitch for new Coen brothers movie.
@agturcz @miguelpergamon @ai6yr
What's it called? "Catch 23"?
I hear the distant sound of Hollywood agents slobbering to get into a series with ALREADY 23 films, and no upper limit. Barbarians at the west coast!
@WellsiteGeo @agturcz @miguelpergamon @ai6yr The Madness of Capt Yossarian
@miguelpergamon @ai6yr @cstross I sense a heist movie coming up: “Ocean's Dozen", in which Danny Ocean and his buddies conspire to intercept a FedEx freighter loaded with British eggs in mid-air and divert it to a secret landing strip in Florida.
@angusm @miguelpergamon @ai6yr @cstross The Avian Job.
"Hang on a minute, lads, I've got a great idea …"
@angusm @miguelpergamon @ai6yr @cstross Obviously filmed as Aardman animation Chicken Run sequel.
@angusm @miguelpergamon @ai6yr @cstross twist: they have the wrong information; they've actually intercepted a shipment of illegal (in the US) Kinder Surprise Eggs.
