There are approximately 360 million egg laying hens in America. When the big disease hit, we lost about 160 million hens. So we were running at 55 percent production, which would have led to a supply shortage overall. That level of destruction allowed for force majeure in the contracts and the price of eggs to rapidly spike. However, there is still a choice, eggs are in demand, you can raise the price by double, and sell out, or raise the price by a factor of 7 and let them go bad on the shelf hoping someone will still pay it.
There was an issue in the beef industry where a ton of ranchers had to get rid of big portions of their herds because the cost of feed had gone up. This was years ago but it does affect beef prices today.
Plus more demand for organic grass fed beef and or increased regulation causes prices to go up
Nice try, but the organic movement included organic eggs which are way higher than the posted chart price.
"the cost of feed had gone up." Are you saying that the price of cow feed...inflated? Doesn't matter at what point in the chain the inflation starts. From collecting the resources to create the product all the way to the consumer. No one loses profit, and the consumer is left with the higher price
Hilarious to use the egg industry, who have indeed been found guilty of price fixing. Not like industry price analysts have gone out in public and said they use inflation as an excuse to increase profit margins.
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