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January 31, 2015

California’s Scrambled Eggs [Bumped]

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The state’s latest animal-rights march is levying a punishing new food tax on the nation’s poor.
Egg prices are soaring in California, where the USDA says the average price for a dozen jumbo eggs is $3.16, up from $1.18 a dozen a year ago, and in some parts of the state it’s more than $5. The Iowa State University Egg Industry Center says retail egg prices in California are 66% higher than in other parts of the West. National wholesale egg prices also climbed nearly 35% over the 2014 holiday period, before retreating. The cause of these price gyrations is an initiative passed by California voters in 2008 that required the state’s poultry farmers to house their hens in significantly larger cages. The state legislature realized this would put home-state farmers at a disadvantage, so in 2010 it compounded the problem by requiring that eggs imported from other states come from farms meeting the same cage standards, effective Jan. 1, 2015.
California’s Scrambled Eggs - WSJ

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Almost every leftist suggestion since 1975 has made life harder for poor people, deliberately. They aren't even trying to hide it any longer. Their policies have always been bad for the poor but often it required some study and understanding to know why, economically. But for a while now, they are just proposing idea after idea that directly and obviously makes life harder for poor people.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 29, 2015 10:28 AM

I think a federal court has enjoined the out of state thing. It should be held to be flatly unconstitutional.

Posted by: Fat Man [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 29, 2015 11:04 AM

You're talking about the Commerce Clauses; Congress could, but why should they? That resolves nothing for California prices.

All eff out of state producers have to do is cease shipping into CA. The loss of business is offset by the lack of change in battery sizes. Hell, layers, with the lighting cycles they get blowout in 5 months or so; they become chicken nuggets the next day.

Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 29, 2015 1:42 PM

$1.18 for a dozen jumbos in CA a year ago?

That's a typo or someone's lying their ass off.
I'm in flyover and you couldn't buy mediums for that price TWO years ago.

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 29, 2015 2:41 PM

My uncle Louie Lozko, known to his friends and family as "Letsgo Lozko", he raised bantam chickens without any government regulation. Back in the Thirties he often gave dozens of eggs to needy families. When a chicken stopped laying he would give the chicken to poor folks. He made good on the "chicken in every pot" claims.

He never needed government for anything and he served in WWII when called on. A select squad of chicken talkers didn't get far and using chickens to carry messages was not effective due to their inability to fly.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 29, 2015 9:17 PM

One thing in those chicken spies was they never but never gave anything up. No matter what torture they were put through including fricassee, secrets were sage.

A dozen jumbo here in SC cost $2.18 to $2.28 in supermarkets. Local farms sell for $1.79 to $1.99 depending upon supply. Those are fresh, usually sell out each day.

Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 30, 2015 5:06 AM

Ah, VW, remember those hippie communes? They got the Whole Earth Catalog and the hemp shirts and seeds and they're gonna, they went up in the hills and lived off the land. Thoreau had nothing on them, they're gonna show the world how people can get along. Chores were established: garden work, fix the hovel so the roof don't leak, the arts and crafts which they can sell in the big city, health issues, cooking, fun and relaxation, free love. Heady days.

Thing is, people being people, the work was done by the same ten percent and everybody got stoned from morning 'til night. Sanitation was lacking so any disease was shared equally by all. The guys with the blocks of hash got more free love than the peasants. Average age of a commune was six months. Live off the land morphed into panhandle the squares in airports and city streets.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 30, 2015 5:51 AM

A proposition passed by California voters in 2008? I vote in every election, and I read all the silly ass propositions before voting "No" on them. I don't recall seeing this "Chicken Cage" proposition on a ballot. Activists. We hates them, Precious.

JWM

Posted by: John M [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 30, 2015 7:49 AM

John, don't underestimate the power of the Poultry Lobby. Big Chicken gets what it wants.

As for the bantam chickens, those little sumbitches are the living descendants of velociraptors. I wouldn't be messing with 'em.

They had roosters hanging around the polling places, glowering at voters.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 30, 2015 8:37 AM

I make a ham n egg sando for breakfast 2-3 times a week and when possible I get the local stuff. 2 different families on our road sell their wares for $2/doz which includes blues, greens, browns and even the occasional light orange and they'll throw in a white or 2. Just have to remember to not throw the carton away and take it back next time. There are a lot of double yolks with free range chickens, maybe every 5th one. Lately the cold has kept the chickens from producing like normal.

Posted by: ghostsniper [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 30, 2015 9:00 AM

Uh huh. Vermont was full of those wonderful, we're living free in nature, peace and love communes. Turned my state into a shambles. Voted for every free handout, welfare scam and nutty liberal idea they could conjure up on a moments notice.

Vermont never recovered. The State is mired in debt, unfunded pensions, bad roads, high taxes and a shrinking tax base. The only thing they have more of each year is liberal ideas and votes for them.

So much for the glory of communes, hippydom and Socialism.

Posted by: Vermont Woodchuck [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 30, 2015 9:41 AM

The part about eggs prices is true, around here at least. About a year ago you could buy a dozen eggs at around $1.25 or less at Safeway and Walmart. They are now as of this A.M. between $ 4.25 to $ 5.89 in Safeway in Pleasant Hill, Ca.
Thankfully we get to move out of here and go back to the south when we finally finish our jobs out here. Sadly not for another 20 months though. Can't even afford to buy eggs to throw at the bicyclers who get out and take over the road lanes.

Posted by: Kelvin [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2015 12:24 PM

Hey VW, I was gonna get a bumper sticker, said:
"Conservative values. Class Warfare is for dope-smoking commies. Stand on your own. No leeching. No whining. Fuck the hippies." but I don't have a big enough bumper on my Blazer.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at January 31, 2015 10:31 PM

using chickens to carry messages was not effective due to their inability to fly.


"As God is my witness, I thought chickens could fly."

-- Wild Bill Donovan, 1942

Posted by: SteveS [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 1, 2015 2:25 PM

The only part of the obstacle course they passed was crossing roads.

Posted by: chasmatic [TypeKey Profile Page] at February 1, 2015 8:35 PM

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