But at least they're canning the Consumer Protection Bureau so that contaminated eggs can flood to market, bringing prices down
Meanwhile, Just Eggs alternative is still eight fucking dollars and climbing.
That's what it reminds me of, too
It is our business though, because when all those omnis come down with the latest zoonotic bird flu they endanger the entire population. And if the population did actually opt for tofu scrambles you just know that the industry would jack up the price of our cheap tofu.
Not to even mention, if you're vegan then factory farming is always your business, ideologically speaking.
Who cares that people are experiencing food insecurity due to egg prices because being vegan just makes us better than them am I right?
legumes are cheaper and more nutritious than eggs
I'm sure that if they look really hard in the store there are cheap bags of dried beans that would go a lot further than eggs even before the price increase.
People facing food insecurity due to egg prices increasing are relying too much on one source of nourishment.
It feels disingenuous to approach this topic with the view that the eggs are the problem and people need to just eat fewer eggs.
The problem is the food cost increases and the eggs are just one example. It's called nuance and we've lost our ability to understand it. Stop trying to blame consumers for this when it is driven by profits.
It sounds like y'all are using the egg price as a barometer, very much the same way the French use the baguette price to talk about the economy and inflation, because it's something everyone relates to (except the politicians that are sure to be made fun of when they get it wrong, exposing how out of touch they are with the common folk).
Agreed, the comment I was replying to indicated the solution was to just eat something cheaper than eggs while ignoring the fundamental issue of food costs. I was trying to highlight that in my response to that post.
You're right, a single parent working three jobs definitely has the time and energy to change their food preparation habits. Definitely. Eggs being expensive is totally OK and doesn't hurt anyone unless they're both stupid and lazy. You're right.
Fucking twat ...
Vegan is better. Go try and prove me wrong. Try from an ethical standpoint and a economical, and nutritional. Find an angle to argue that plant based diets aren't better for everyone.
Sitting in my chair, understanding that factory farming is propped up with government funding, and raising chickens to lay eggs is a really inefficient way to produce protein. All the space and energy to collect chicken periods and the first step is to throw half the baby chicks in a grinder because they have a dick. I can watch a video of tofu being made and not loose my appetite.
I agree that vegan is better from an ethical standpoint. That doesn't somehow make it OK to celebrate families suddenly having to deal with food insecurity. Have some empathy for people for fucks sake.
celebrate
oh please, no one is celebrating.
As someone on a normal diet I have the ability to eat whatever, even though grains and fruit trigger my inflammation and make me horribly sick, I won't die immediately. And anyway, I can raise my own chickens around here luckily.
NOOO MY HECKIN ANIMAL EXPLOITATION NOW I HAVE TO PAY $10 FOR A DOZEN STOLEN CHICKEN EGGS :((((((((((
Omnivore here. These egg prices are why I'm going to try a new recipe the next time I make homemade noodles. Guess I'll be dipping my toes in veganism when I make soup with that, because I'm already using soy protein chunks. I doubt I'll go full vegan, but I also doubt I'm the only person who'll be experimenting with new ingredients as a result of absurd prices.
But disease doesn't exist. Maybe those chickens just need a little bleach injection.
Isn't easier to just... stop buying eggs?
Won't the prices come down if people, you know, stop pushing demand for them?
Seriously not a bad time to consider vegetarianism or veganism.
Seriously not a bad time to consider vegetarianism or veganism
But eggs are vegetarian. Avoiding meat is easy, but eggs are in a ton of recipes and not all of them work with egg substitutes
You say that like we don't import a fuck ton of our produce from Mexico.
Everything is about to get way more expensive.
Uh oh, you've stirred up the armchair nutritionists again! Here to tell us how nutritionally deficient a plant-based diet is!
The issue is that for a lot of poor people, eggs were a great and easy way to get proteins.
Vegan diet is absolutely viable for the vast majority of people. However, the access to quality vegan food to all the population isn't there yet.
Food desert are real and at least eggs were easier to get there than dried beans and rice. And that options is getting out of reach for a lot of people.
You're gonna find beans, soy and rice in a food desert a lot easier than eggs. The food desert I've lived in had at least two of the three in almost every bodega.
"Why don't poor people just buy healthy food at their local bodegas?" - A statement made with incredible privilege and zero self awareness
No I've literally been poor and living in a food desert and was pointing out that rice and beans are in fact usually more accessible than eggs in such a place, as the other user rested much of their argument on a belief to the contrary. Please don't put words in my mouth, TY.
Then go tell all these people that are hurt by the egg prices going up they are wrong.
Sorry if I'm misunderstanding the problem, but aren't foods like beans and rice which can be ordered in bulk online a good solution for people stuck in food deserts? I would think that anything with a long shelf life would be superior to perishables. (American eggs have to be refrigerated, right?)
It's a multifaceted problem, and you are thinking in terms of people getting the best for their money instead of people being starved and trying to make a dollar last.
Buying in bulk is expensive upfront. If you are squeezing pennies, it is probably not an option for you.
Eggs have different nutrients that beans don't have. One of them being fat for example. If you can't get it from eggs anymore, you need to add that cost as well to your expenses.
People that lives day to day with a squeezed budget have to pivot right now, as in today, to different sources of food. I can afford to phase out expensive food from my diet, but for many people it's the difference between starving or not today. If you already don't have much options, switching on a dime isn't realistic.
you are thinking in terms of people getting the best for their money instead of people being starved and trying to make a dollar last.
I'm not, actually. When I say "in bulk" I don't mean a 20kg sack. 500g of rice or dry legumes goes a long way for a low price.
When we were starving we mostly got whatever was on sale or short-dated, so we ate different things all the time out of necessity, but dry goods were always reliable, which is why I asked about them.
Dry goods are still reliable, but the issue at hand is that a dozen eggs are now 8-9 dollars, and that rise was pretty fast.
People relying on eggs for survival and not part as a diversified diet need to switch to other sources right now which they might not have available. You won't survive on rice only. Beans should definitely be added to your diet for their health benefits and as a way to be less insecure with food. However, eggs were also playing that part and now it's not reliable anymore.
In a vacuum, it isn't that big of a deal, but in reality, already strained people are even more strained right now and the egg prices exploding is just another kick in the guts.
You don't have to be vegan to make a tofu scramble.
It’s kinda our business too because people are still forcing birds into confined spaces and making them sick, and being vegan is a stance against that.
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