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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish31•1 month agoWe call it factory farming, which is different than ranching. You pack thousands of chickens into a giant warehouse together. Vaccines don’t do much in an environment like that. And the federal government is being gutted by Nazis currently so that doesn’t help.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink8•1 month agoYeah that’s bleak, although we do have factory farms here too. Perhaps it’s just the scale of it in the US.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•1 month agoI get that, but eggs aren’t a commodity yet non factory farmed egg prices are also soaring. This. Is. Greed.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-229 days agoI’ve been paying the same price for local free-range eggs for four years. But yes, the egg cartels and large grocery stores are fixing the prices too. Better to not buy from folks like that rather than supporting their oligopoly.
We call it factory farming, which is different than ranching. You pack thousands of chickens into a giant warehouse together.
Vaccines don’t do much in an environment like that. And the federal government is being gutted by Nazis currently so that doesn’t help.
Yeah that’s bleak, although we do have factory farms here too. Perhaps it’s just the scale of it in the US.
More like millions of birds.
I get that, but eggs aren’t a commodity yet non factory farmed egg prices are also soaring.
This. Is. Greed.
I’ve been paying the same price for local free-range eggs for four years.
But yes, the egg cartels and large grocery stores are fixing the prices too. Better to not buy from folks like that rather than supporting their oligopoly.