Striker to A Boring Dystopia • 10 months agoThe only thing that is preventing basic living essentials for costing more is whether the capitalist class feel like rising the price or not.imagemessage-square149arrow-up11.95Karrow-down129
arrow-up11.92Karrow-down1imageThe only thing that is preventing basic living essentials for costing more is whether the capitalist class feel like rising the price or not.Striker to A Boring Dystopia • 10 months agomessage-square149
minus-squareughlinkfedilink-9•10 months agoChickens got hit with a bird flu during the start of the pandemic, which made egg prices even higher. A big reason for the drop in price was because the farmers were able to stabilize. It’s probably 50/50 between the fowl epidemic and inflation.
minus-square@harklink21•10 months agoExcept egg production didn’t drop all that much: https://www.statista.com/statistics/196096/total-egg-production-in-the-us-since-2000/ It hit one producer and the others decided to jack up their prices as well to take advantage. There’s a reason why they were being investigated.
Chickens got hit with a bird flu during the start of the pandemic, which made egg prices even higher. A big reason for the drop in price was because the farmers were able to stabilize. It’s probably 50/50 between the fowl epidemic and inflation.
Except egg production didn’t drop all that much: https://www.statista.com/statistics/196096/total-egg-production-in-the-us-since-2000/
It hit one producer and the others decided to jack up their prices as well to take advantage. There’s a reason why they were being investigated.