Egg Hype

[guyfriday]

This... is strange...

New Yorkers should prepare for paper bag shortage when plastic bag ban hits

No poop for you: Manure supplies run short as fertilizer prices soar

What once was old is new again. Guess I should start saying "Sock it to me" again.

[IDELB2006]

Fear-induced price gouging. 

Nothing to see here folks

I'm sure there is a certain amount of hype. That's how the news cycle works. 

The other part would be the local nature of the production and distribution of eggs. Some farmers in the New England area had to cull there flocks recently due to the bird flu. It will take time to replace those birds.

There is probably a bit of opportunism happen as well. The price of eggs has been fluctuating a lot over the last 5 years. Somehow its never managed to swing back down to the $2/dozen price range.

[AlroyFarms]

I blame Diddy

[quintessentone]

I blame Diddy

Wouldn't that reply be more appropriate for a baby oil shortage thread?

[sahgwa]

Rocky mountain state-  can find the cheap eggs for about $4 or $5 for a dozen.
We usually get the heritage Happy Eggs, with the amber yolks, those I think are about $8 per dozen. 
The extra cost is worth it because they actually have very strong flavour. Not like the mass produced eggs you get in hotels.

[DontTreadOnMe]

Not long ago it was Toilet Paper, now eggs. 

Something else is going on here something that smells like social engineering. 

Or, better yet, how about some good old manipulated virus?
I read an article not long ago about how this virus was tinkered with just like you know what.  And that this current bird flu has been circulating the globe for a couple of years, constantly spread by wild ducks. [And I suppose other water fowl?]

What better way to have a constant reason to keep egg and poultry prices fluctuating in an every upward spiral?????

I'll remove my tinfoil hat now....

[UltraBudgie]

I'll remove my tinfoil hat now....

The light of truth is shining so hard on tinfoil hats lately that you could fry an egg on them...

[guyfriday]

I'll remove my tinfoil hat now....

Remove your what?

If it was just a thing of egg prices I might pass it off as some kind of engineered price gouge, but given the whole Egg Shaped UFO/UAP stories and the strange reports of Egg Shaped Drones I have to think something else is going on here. 

Also I liked Excalibur, while a bit off story in some parts, it's still a great retelling of the King Arthur tale. Hum wasn't there a story of how Merlin trapped a demon in a freshly laid egg?

Crap, Someone must be behind all this egg stories?

[sahgwa]

As aMALantrah said, 'it's all in the egg' 

[Lynyrd Skynyrd]

Eggs in Mexico are reported to be in good supply, and $2/dozen.

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