Local producers are taking precautions against avian flu, but people scrambling to buy might also be a factor in increased price and scarcity.

Local producers are taking precautions against avian flu, but people scrambling to buy might also be a factor in increased price and scarcity.

  • echo@lemmings.world
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    4 days ago

    There are more than 26 Billion chickens in the world… I’m pretty sure we’re just getting fucked by the corporations, once again.

    • echo@lemmings.world
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      4 days ago

      Here’s a better number…

      In 2023, there were about 379 million egg-laying hens in the US

      In 2023, Americans ate an average of 281.3 eggs per person

      The U.S. egg industry produces about 110 billion eggs each year.

      • mercator_rejection@programming.dev
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        4 days ago

        Maybe I just don’t eat a ton of eggs and certainly don’t think about the number of eggs used to make other foods. But that 281 eggs per person just astounds me.

          • HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            4 days ago

            A quick list of foods with egg in them:

            Mayonnaise, meringue, egg noodles and pasta, creamy salad dressings, French toast, cream-filled pies, custard ice cream, pudding, sherbet and commercially prepared pancakes, cakes and brownies, cream puffs, custard and flan.

            Egg may appear on an (ingredients) label as albumin, globulin, lecithin, lysozyme, simplesse and vitellin. Food Ingredients labeled with “ova” – such as ovalbumin, ovomucin, ovomucoid – also indicate the presence of egg. Source