eggs are expensive and are emblematic of the economy - which is in somewhat of a bifurcession
The Eggconomy
Eggs are pretty expensive right now - but they are actually less expensive than they *were* - according to Brighton Capital1, the wholesale price for large conventional eggs has fallen from $5.10/dozen to $4.63. But why are eggs so expensive?
Bird food is expensive
Birds are sick with HPAI
The holiday season2
Eggs are actually very volatile in general - more than natural gas (!!!)
And refrigeration is a bit wacky
Supply and demand. And there could be more supply problems down the road - the hen/human ratio is at a 15-year low and more than 11 million hens have died in the past 3 months.
There’s a Reddit fan theory about the price of eggs in the land of the Beauty and the Beast. Gaston sings the following song
When I was a lad I ate four dozen eggs
Every morning to help me get large
And now that I'm grown I eat five dozen eggs
So I'm roughly the size of a barge!
A hen can lay about one egg a d…
