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POLITICS, OR MAYBE JUST A RANT

What About the Price of Eggs?

Hey, it’s Just us chickens clucking on our way to the bottom of the pecking order

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Egg laying chickens in cages in an industrial chicken farm
At an industrial chicken farm (Image by Roee Shpernik on Wikimedia)

Up until today, I felt kinda sorry for folks I thought were so economically challenged that they could hardly afford scrambled eggs for breakfast.

The price of a dozen large white, Grade A eggs averaged $3.65 across the country in November. Since then, depending on where you live, the price has gone up, down, back up, and down some, but seems to have averaged out at about the same $3.65.

This is the overall average for eggs from chickens that are well-fed (organic) and that were fed food laced with chemicals (nonorganic). It took into account happy chickens that peck for bugs in the grass (free range), chickens jammed together on industrial farm floors (cage-free), and chickens confined their whole lives in stacked cages and fed just well enough to keep them laying eggs (traditional).

November, in case you’ve been successful at forgetting this, was voting month. That’s when so many of us in this country voted to give billionaires more tax cuts and gut regulations that would keep industrial farmers from administering electric shock therapy to chickens who don’t meet their egg quotas.

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Katharine Valentino
Katharine Valentino

Written by Katharine Valentino

Still trying for the words to help us do & feel good things. Owner of Reviews for Medium Featured Books. I write life stories & about politics / social issues.

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