Eggs - a Livestock and Meat commodity

[Mr Flibble]

Don't buy eggs all the time, last time was 12th Feb - Far south coast NSW Woolworths Eggs Free Range 12pk 700g $6.10. Half the space in the shop normally devoted to eggs had tim tams and other assorted chocolate biscuits.

Neighbour used to keep chooks, but she's moved. Don't get nearly as many rats around the joint now.

 

[Sdajii]

this was the suggested English spelling, but I believe it should be homeopathic ...the "dose" might be different....

Homoeopathic is the 'correct' way to spell it, but when enough people get things wrong in the same way, the incorrect becomes correct, and with everything being the mess it is these days, pretty much any spelling for any word is 'correct'.

 

[Sdajii]

The egg shortages and increased prices are quite amazing.

They are strangely restricted to Europe, North America and Australasia, the regions where farming practices are the most hygienic.

I've been based in South East Asia for most of the last 10+ years (spent a few years stuck in Australia when a one week visit coincided with a travel ban over some overblown cold). Every second household here has chickens, I have wandering chickens from local households come into my kitchen (if plucking them wasn't such a task they'd be more welcome), local commercial farming practices are filthy etc, and there is no shortage of eggs, they remain plentiful and cheap. Maybe a little more expensive than they were 10 years ago but no more than keeping up with inflation. I personally mostly eat duck eggs, but quail eggs are also readily available and even goose eggs pop up at the markets (unlike chicken, duck and quail, the goose eggs are from backyards and very expensive, but always have been). No one eats backyard chicken eggs here, they are much more valuable as future scrap eaters, garden pest controllers, and chickens to eat.

Depending on which country in this region I'm in I currently pay about AU$2.50 for a dozen duck eggs and can get chicken eggs significantly cheaper (the price difference is relevant to most locals but at that price I just get what I want). No one in this region is aware of bird flu or egg shortages being an issue anywhere in the world.

I'm not saying there's some conspiracy plot, but there's a big coincidence about Europe, North America, Australia/NZ in three separate corners of the world being hit by egg shortages, everywhere else being immune, and eggs being extremely nutritious particularly in key nutrients relevant to immune function.

Occam's razor says you're a lot more crazy to believe in the coincidence theory than simpler alternatives, but hey, it's a crazy world, believe what you want.