Both are farmers who’ve I’ve seen promote and demonstrate profitable chicken egg/meat models for small farmers. I’ll link a video in a little bit if I can. And got ya I was just trying to be cheeky with my reply, statistically the pleasure to have been in your kitchen is reserved for an incredibly exclusive and elite group.
I heard after the devastating bird flu of last year, there was a hemorrhoid outbreak, leading to many chickens having a painful time laying eggs, and this coupled with the farmers supplementing the chickens with extra cash because of the bird flu lead to the chickens leaving the farm and not wanting to lay eggs for "the man" anymore. Those that remain are demanding more compensation for their sore bums. Or something like that.
They can come back with Dino DNA... We just need to find mosquitos with Dino blood that got stuck in tree sap so we can extract the blood and then combine the DNA with strands of frog DNA in order to complete the chain and walla...
Sure, you get a bunch of eggs for ~8 months of the year (my cousins were getting 1.3 eggs every day per chicken, they had 120 or so), eggs were selling for $6/doz (started at 5 in the spring but...inflation by July). Now all the chickens are molting and have stopped laying (about 4 eggs a day total). You still have to put out feed (chicken scratch is ~$40 per 50lbs, and that lasts about 2 weeks. Then there's the labor/time cost of checking water/feed, making sure they're all in at night, predator control, etc.... **** chickens, cows are so much easier, but I am glad to know people who have chickens.
Witnessed a woman at HEB on San Felipe yesterday take a carton of small eggs, swap them out one by one with a carton of large eggs, then put the large egg carton that now contains small eggs back in the fridge and walked off with the carton of small eggs that contains the large eggs. Bought large eggs at the small egg price. You know how long it takes to swap out 24 eggs? She did it in front of everybody, including workers, and nobody gave a damn. Definitely worth the risk of a theft charge to save a couple bucks, at that point just steal the large eggs without all the gymnastics.
This is the basis of personal economics. If you’re unskilled, your time isn’t worth much because using it doesn’t make you much and you have an excess of that time. So those larger eggs are worth more to her than to you. The time spent swapping the eggs is worth almost nothing to her. I do doubt your own personal economics can afford going to jail and everything else (time-wise) that goes with a theft charge. Which is why you buy the large eggs, in person.
Personal economics, more like personal stupidity. It's ok for people to be responsible for their actions instead of making it an effect or societal condition.
Cal-Maine Foods is the largest egg producer in the US. They ship eggs under hundreds (yes hundreds!) of names and packages--Farmhouse, Sunups, Sunny Meadows, Egg-Land's Best, Land O' Lakes, etc. They have a relative monopoly over the NE, SE, SW, and Midwest. They have a history of price-fixing and have for decades been lobbying for state laws that make it more difficult for independent egg producers. They've essentially wiped every non-backyard egg-producer competition out of several states. In the last quarter, they had record profits of 65% over the previous year after doubling the price of eggs. Here's their chart: Also, Cal-Maine has reported they have not detected any avian flu incidents in any of their facilities. Zero. It seems they have quite the PR operation and have a lot of folks defending Big Egg price gouging. [NoD&D]
