I’m seeing some people say crazy numbers on Twitter.

  • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 days ago

    In Colorado, surrounded by the same poultry farms that gave us the first human transmission case:

    Affordable grocers have had no stock for much of the last six months or so. When you can find them in stock, it’s about $5/dozen with a pre-bird flu price of around $3/dozen.

    Luxury grocers have had no reasonably priced eggs in stock for the same length of time. There are sometimes one or two options for high-end eggs at $10-12/dozen. They also have cartons of liquefied whole eggs and egg whites.

    Both ration eggs to 1-2 dozen per customer when they’re in stock.

    Chicken-focused restaurants are either going out of business, raising prices (a breakfast burrito went from $6 to $9 at my favourite taco truck), or limiting their egg usage with intermittent shortages. Barbecue is another cuisine that has been particularly impacted since those animals are fed chicken shit from the infected poultry farms. I think we’ve lost three or four local bakeries in the past six months.