Egg prices are up 310% since 2005. But it’s not the only staple with soaring prices

Meanwhile, every time I go to the store, it seems like another apartment complex has sprung up to trap people in the rent cycle.

  •  megopie   ( @megopie@beehaw.org ) 
    4•10 days ago

    At least with eggs and chicken, it’s mostly a collapse of the industrial farming system. This outbreak of bird flue has been going on since 2022 and has yet to really be contained or dealt with. Nearly 165 million chickens have died from H5N1 or been culled to slow the spread in the past 3 years. There have been 14 facilities with a million or more chickens totally wiped out since the start of the year.

    Weirdly, it’s had much less effect on “pasture raised” egg prices. Almost like the disease is a lot less of a problem if the chickens aren’t stressed and crammed shoulder to shoulder for easy transmission.