2-3 € for eggs is still quite expensive though
I remember when they were 1€ the pack... I would be fine with the price if the loval farmers were to get the big earn share and the animals would be held in good conditions, but that isnt the case...
Why do the French only eat one egg for breakfast?
Because one egg is un œuf
- this joke courtesy of my college French teacher.
Americans just can't get un œuf.
Who sells eggs in 10s?
Metric system - makes sense to me.
Metric country here, they're most often sold as half a dozen, often as a dozen, at the supermarket you can also find 2 or 4-egg packages
Most of europe I believe. We got 6, 10, 12 and some larger ones but most common is 10
Yeah pretty common for a large box here. Wait till you hear about the tray of eggs!
Or stacked trays of eggs 🤣
Chicken's dozen
France : you get em in 6, 10 & 12
Bro, at this point, having a good Egg Dealer is a must in the USA.
And Canadians
We're European lite.
I feel like I never see eggs in anything other than 12 over here in Alberta, but I don't eat a ton of eggs.
Eggcelent meme.
Went to my local shop today and eggs were 17 eurocents a piece for medium size egg in a pack of 30 or 19c for 10 pack
Couple weeks ago I really needed eggs and the only ones left were the premium ones. Came out to almost $1/egg.
I get the idea of wanting to stick it to the US, but it's maybe not the largest source of pride when you consider what the industry looks like. Being slightly less bad than the US is not a high bar. It's still quite horrifying
Intensive farming is the predominant method of producing meat, dairy products and eggs in Europe and elsewhere in the world
In the EU, over 300 million animals spend all, or a significant part, of their lives imprisoned in cages – from sows in farrowing crates to egg-laying hens in so-called ‘enriched’ cages.
[...]
While the EU ban on the use of barren battery cages came into force in 2012, nearly half of commercial egg-laying hens are still kept in so-called ‘enriched’ cages. Additionally breeding flocks and chicks are also caged, often in barren cages.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/cmsdata/231961/'End the Cage Age' report, October 2020.pdf
A ten pack?
Jealous?
Not really, I buy a 18 pack and keep eyeing up the 30 pack.
Lol, guys you know America has eggs, right?
I paid $8 for a dozen the other day. That sucks, but it's not like that's prohibitively expensive for most people. I imagine many are avoiding them, though, considering wages are so bad right now.
We're just better at abusing chickens and sell their periods cheaper. Deal with it.
Why don't Americans get chickens and a small coop ? We have 4 chickens in the middle of town and produce more eggs than we can eat. We have to give some to neighbors and friends. We even cook excess for the dogs as treats sometimes.
Many Americans live in apartments or condos with minimal to no personal outdoor space, and almost surely a ban on "farm" animals.
My first egg cost me $600. I'm 7 years in and if it weren't for the fact that egg prices have escalated so much I'd still be losing money on every single egg because the industrialization of eggs makes it less expensive to buying them under normal circumstances.
Now let's talk about the reason they're currently expensive. Bird flu. Imagine every yard with chickens in it. Instead of a few locations to protect, you now have hundreds of millions. Which results in billions of potential vectors for the spread of disease.
I know everyday that I could walk outside and find my birds sick with the bird flu because some bird pooped by flying overhead. I may have to cull my entire flock of a dozen or so chickens, six five ducks and seven geese. And then when I decide to replace them I'm going to be priced out of the market by everyone else replacing their birds.
Chickens need food, shelter and care.
While I think it's fun to have chickens, I'd hate to think of people getting chickens just for food and neglecting then otherwise. And there are a lot of people out there who only care about money (and not animals) sadly.
I’d hate to think of people getting chickens just for food and neglecting then otherwise
What do you think farm chickens’ life looks like?
What a naive comment.
It's a country the size of a continent with over 300 million citizens. Lots of Americans do what you suggested, but tell somebody in LA or NYC to "get chickens and a small coop" they'd laugh and tell you their reality is very different from yours.
Foxes, outdoor cats and my dog wouldn't agree to to this plan. The other day I saw a giant ass snake too. I thought it was someone's escape pet... apparently those fuckers are normal and everyone who grew up here thought I was being hysterical. Also, if I'm being 100% honest, those chickens would be neglected if they lived in my yard.
Foxes would definitely be a problem, but cats don't go near the chickens over here.
How much work is it? If there’s a war or anything, getting chickens is on the top of my list!
Not a lot, make sure they have food and water, and that they are sheltered from predators at night. We have six hens and a rooster. The work consists of cleaning the coop once a week, and at the same time clean and refill the water dispenser and fill up the food reservoir. My kids do this in half an hour. We also have to pick up the eggs daily. We raised our Brahma chickens ourselves after hatching them in an incubator, and they are wonderful pets.
Edit: because we feed them a more varied diet, the eggs also taste better.
Not every town allows it, not every home has the room, not every household has the resources, etc, etc, etc.
Pretty much the same as anywhere, really.
Fwiw, depending on the number of conditions chickens you have a "small" coop isn't realistic.
You can't keep chickens in the coop 24/7. Well, I guess you can, but you'd be an asshole if you did. They need light and air and exercise and mental activity, and you don't get that in a coop.
So, you need enough space for them too. A decent sized yard can provide that.
Oh, wait, now the chickens are eaten by a neighbor's dog; oh well!
Build a chicken run. Solves the roaming problems.
But now, snakes and small predators can get to your chickens because they can't run away.
But, if you just fence in your yard, there's still predator access in different ways.
I get the impression that folks really don't know how much wild animal life there is in the US, even in cities. Like, I used to live in a fairly big city, and we still got raccoons in the garbage, and coyotes occasionally rolling through the streets.
In my town, we're on the edge of farmlands and mountains. We don't get the big critters like bear and cougars, but you better believe we have foxes and coyote, and feral dogs, and snakes and hawks, and the list can go on
Just in the last month my rooster has been in three fights with other animals that got inside our fence. And we aren't outside of town. Before we had chickens? Never saw a coyote inside the fence, or a feral dog. Foxes were rare. And easy to keep out because they only came in when the fence got damaged; they weren't trying to get in.
We also didn't have as many mice trying to move in (which you deal with on the edge of farmlands anyway, but it was less) to get their food.
Chickens ain't exactly a casual decision is what I'm getting at.
Maybe wherever you are, the towns are far enough off from that kind of stuff, and you can just let them roam all over with little or no risk, I dunno. But you can't do that everywhere here for sure.
Also, if you didn't already have chickens before the bird flu started hitting, they aren't cheap now. Even breeds that aren't considered great layers have gone up in price. Our pet hen was less than ten bucks, and she's a fancy breed. The same bird would be twice that now, from the same breeder, and that's in less than two years.
I'm so worried about eggs man. That's my breakfast item! I need it!!
you're proud that innocent americans are suffering? what a hateful, divisive attitude to share. banned from my instance.
Whoops, I guess we have to walk on eggshells around you.
You can't. Remember no eggs.
Oh no! Whatever shall they do?
How dare you mock us Americans for our intense suffering. This atrocity we're forced to endure. This immense heartache of paying $2 more per week for eggs. This is literally the same as cheering on Sept 11. Have you no decency?
/s
Maybe they wouldn't be suffering if they didn't elect a clown show. Don't elect the clowns if you don't want a circus.
How very sad for us Americans, when there are a number of civil wars going on around the world, genocides such as in Gaza, and extremely oppressive regimes that kill anyone who speaks out. But yeah, the price of eggs going up is where we draw the line in the U.S.
Would you also like to complain about your freedom to not mask to prevent the spread of extremely communicable diseases?
