Striker@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 1 year agoThe only thing that is preventing basic living essentials for costing more is whether the capitalist class feel like rising the price or not.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square149linkfedilinkarrow-up11.97Karrow-down129
arrow-up11.94Karrow-down1imageThe only thing that is preventing basic living essentials for costing more is whether the capitalist class feel like rising the price or not.lemmy.worldStriker@lemmy.world to A Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square149linkfedilink
minus-squareugh@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down13·1 year agoChickens got hit with a bird flu during the start of the pandemic, which made egg prices even higher. A big reason for the drop in price was because the farmers were able to stabilize. It’s probably 50/50 between the fowl epidemic and inflation.
minus-squarehark@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up21·1 year agoExcept egg production didn’t drop all that much: https://www.statista.com/statistics/196096/total-egg-production-in-the-us-since-2000/ It hit one producer and the others decided to jack up their prices as well to take advantage. There’s a reason why they were being investigated.
Chickens got hit with a bird flu during the start of the pandemic, which made egg prices even higher. A big reason for the drop in price was because the farmers were able to stabilize. It’s probably 50/50 between the fowl epidemic and inflation.
Except egg production didn’t drop all that much: https://www.statista.com/statistics/196096/total-egg-production-in-the-us-since-2000/
It hit one producer and the others decided to jack up their prices as well to take advantage. There’s a reason why they were being investigated.