Eggs

How much will the price of eggs drop by tomorrow now that Trump is president?

  • by 50 percent

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  • by 90 percent

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  • by 99 percent

    Votes: 1 5.9%

  • by 99.99 percent

    Votes: 3 17.6%

  • Egg prices on Planet X are too scrambled to tell

    Votes: 13 76.5%
  • Total voters
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Prices have been steady here for a few weeks. Still $6.99/doz. for house-brand large white eggs. But there are some bargains under name brands. Hillandale medium white eggs are $3.59/doz. There are other brands from $3.99-$4.99.
 
I paid $3.93 ($2.73 US) a dozen large yesterday at my local Sobey's. There were others priced at up to $10 for free-range, organic,GMO free, brown. But the only difference I've ever found between these and the cheapest to buy is the price.
 
Gord_in_Toronto said:
I paid $3.93 ($2.73 US) a dozen large yesterday at my local Sobey's. There were others priced at up to $10 for free-range, organic,GMO free, brown. But the only difference I've ever found between these and the cheapest to buy is the price.
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Well, if they were free range, the chickens weren't raised in boxes. That's kind of a not-cruel thing.

If they are organic, then the fertilizers and pesticides weren't toxic to the local ecosystem, washing poisons into waterways and all that.

You might not be able to tell the difference between a t-shirt made in a child labor sweatshop versus a more expensive Union made t-shirt with fair working conditions negotiated under collective bargaining, but it's still money well spent?
 
Thermal said:
Well, if they were free range, the chickens weren't raised in boxes. That's kind of a not-cruel thing.

If they are organic, then the fertilizers and pesticides weren't toxic to the local ecosystem, washing poisons into waterways and all that.

You might not be able to tell the difference between a t-shirt made in a child labor sweatshop versus a more expensive Union made t-shirt with fair working conditions negotiated under collective bargaining, but it's still money well spent?
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Chickens aren't people.
 
Gord_in_Toronto said:
Chickens aren't people.
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And people don't need to be cruel.

Do you think toxic chemical runoff in waterways is a good idea? Cuz I don't.

And children in sweatshops... do you think they aren't people too?

What you pay often reflects how something was produced, and how the workers are treated. It's not a matter of chickens not being people. It's a matter of people being people.
 
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🐔 A lot of things!!!
'Gaslighting' Americans: Trump says he's done 'a lot of things' to get egg prices down (MSNBC on YouTube, Mar 12, 2025 - 11:41 min.)
President Trump is defending his tariffs as U.S. allies retaliate. Also, Trump says his administration had done "a lot of things" to get egg prices down. NBC News senior White House correspondent Gabe Gutierrez, NBC News senior business correspondent Christine Romans and newly-announced host of MSNBC’s ‘The Weekend’ Catherine Rampell join Chris Jansing to break it all down.
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7:38--> Trump: "I don't know if you saw, a little thing like the price of eggs - a little to you, but big to people out there - down almost 30% in the last few days. We got it down. We did a lot of things. We have a great Secretary of Agriculture. And we did a lot of things that got the cost of eggs down very substantially."

- So, Catherine, let's do a little fact check on that. Where are we with eggs? Because it does affect everyday Americans every day.

- Egg prices have actually gone up quite a bit since Trump took office. And the most recent consumer price index report, the retail price, which came out today, the retail price was higher. It's a snapshot in time. It's from a month ago. There is some sign that wholesale prices may have come down a little bit recently, but still very far above what they were when Trump took office.
Now, to be clear, you know, presidents do not control prices. They certainly are not going around infecting individual chickens with bird flu, which is the main problem here. But it is incredibly unhelpful, at the very least, that Trump has suppressed data on bird-flu transmission, which he is continuing to do. He has censored research coming out of the CDC about new forms of bird-flu transmission that scientists have discovered, and he has fired, accidentally, and maybe rehired bird-flu trackers and experts at the USDA.
So I do not blame him for egg prices, just as I did not blame president Biden for high egg prices last year, despite what Trump and Vance and other Republicans said. They blamed Biden explicitly.
But there are things on the margin that the president could do. And rather than trying to do those things, he is just gaslighting the American people about what's happening to prices.
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The USDA has apparently reached out to European egg industries, asking if they can up the exports.

No word though on tariffs nor if the USDA rules on egg handling will be relaxed (apparently US eggs have to be washed, which EU rules doesn't permit).
 
If only there was some way to turn unwashed eggs into washed eggs.

Maybe the Dear Leader can suggest something. Inject them with bleach perhaps.
 
KDLarsen said:
The USDA has apparently reached out to European egg industries, asking if they can up the exports.
No word though on tariffs nor if the USDA rules on egg handling will be relaxed (apparently US eggs have to be washed, which EU rules doesn't permit).
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USA beder Danmark om æg TV2.dk, Mar 14, 2025)
The USA is asking Denmark for eggs

What's Trump. gonna do if he doesn't get them? invade Greenland or something?
 
Egg prices, especially at restaurants, are going through the roof (many are adding surcharges), gas is astronomical. I think this is what they're going for:
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Eggs are now the new hottest smuggled item into the US, even more than drugs (Economic Times, Mar 16, 2025)
So forget about Fentanyl!

Eggs are so expensive people are smuggling them in from Mexico (WSJ, Mar 15, 2025)
As egg prices soar in the U.S., travelers have been stocking up on cheaper supplies in Mexico and, to some degree, Canada. The U.S. Department of Agriculture bans such imports because eggs not inspected through official channels can spread disease.
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Didn't DOGE fire of all the inspectors?
 
$6 for a dozen large at Giant near Philly, that price has been pretty consistent . I actually bought a pack since I haven't had eggs in a while.

Which means I'll cook two of them in a day or two, remember I have eggs a couple weeks from now and have some more, then have to throw out 1/2 dozen because of the expiration date.
 
kookbreaker said:
$6 for a dozen large at Giant near Philly, that price has been pretty consistent . I actually bought a pack since I haven't had eggs in a while.

Which means I'll cook two of them in a day or two, remember I have eggs a couple weeks from now and have some more, then have to throw out 1/2 dozen because of the expiration date.
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$4.49 at the Jersey Wawas, yo
 
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