FWIW, It seems the crazy egg prices aren't as bad for organic/cage free/whatever. BJ's right now, store brand 5 dozen is $22 or 36.7 cents/egg. Egglands Best Cage Free is $8 for 24, or 33.3 cents/egg. Free range store brand brown eggs are $7 for 24, 29.2 cents/egg.
Are we able to reserve online to ensure stock availability?
How sad that EGGS make it to SD 😒
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prop 12 passed in 2018 but didn't become law until early 2022. Then there was the usual lawsuits filed to hold up enforcement so in reality, California wasn't really cage free until July 2022 when the last of the lawsuits were ruled on. The proposition passing back in 2018 should have given egg producers plenty of time to prepare but the recent price surge is evidence that they were not prepared
Wait until Cali's current pork case gets through the Supreme Court. Say goodbye to affordable bacon, ham, sausage, and pork rinds.
Cali trying to bully everyone else around the country.
I regularly get eggs at Sam's club for $3 per dozen, or $6 for a package of two dozen so this is not a big savings for me. However, others may not be so fortunate.
Have you checked Sam's lately? Costcos and Sam's in my area have been sold out and prices have increased.
"Consumers are increasingly skeptical of 'marketing terms' that bear little relation to the realities of how the eggs are farmed, and rightly so," says Jeff Hinds, vice president of quality assurance, compliance and food safety at Vital Farms, where I recently – full disclosure – went on a sponsored tour. Here's what I learned about which terms mean what:
Caged: Hens are confined to cages with a 67-square inch space each. They never see the light of day and consume a corn or soy diet. Over 90 percent of eggs in the U.S. come from hens that are kept in cages for their entire egg-laying lives.
Cage-Free: These ladies have more room than caged hens, since each is given less than 1 square foot. Still, they're not entirely "free," since they're confined to barns and consume a corn or soy diet.
Free-Range: Allotted less than 2 square feet per hen, these animals have more space than their caged and cage-free peers, but they don't get outdoors as much as you may think. Some seldom get to see the light of day and many eat a corn- or soy-based feed.
Pasture-Raised: These ladies are given at least 108 square feet each and consume some feed and lots of grass, bugs, worms and anything else they can find in the dirt. They tend to be let out of the barns early in the morning and called back in before nightfall.
Pastured-raised hens also produce healthier eggs, according to a 2003 study out of Pennsylvania State University. In it, researchers found that one pasture-raised egg contains twice as much omega-3 fat, three times more vitamin D, four times more vitamin E and seven times more beta-carotene than eggs from hens raised on traditional feed
So I live out in the country and we have 12 chickens that give us eggs daily (when that stops - they give us Chicken dinners - but I digress) ... You can tell immediately in the taste the difference between store bought and farm raised. Many times I can even tell the difference between the "FREE RANGE" and my farm raised .. its all in the diet -- even FREE RANGE they are pushing soy and corn down the chickens throats but with Fresh they eat anything and everything that God's Green earth provides ...
But yes -- its bizarre that many ppl's alerts have bacame "EGGS, MILK, or BACON"
Popped into Costco a couple days ago, 5 dozen large was 14.44 (2.88 dozen or 0.24 each). Winco was close to same at 14.99 (2.99 dozen). However, a dozen at Winco was hovering close to $5 and 18 was around $8. Pays to buy in bulk?
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Cali trying to bully everyone else around the country.
THAT ain't no s****!!!
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Caged: Hens are confined to cages with a 67-square inch space each. They never see the light of day and consume a corn or soy diet. Over 90 percent of eggs in the U.S. come from hens that are kept in cages for their entire egg-laying lives.
Cage-Free: These ladies have more room than caged hens, since each is given less than 1 square foot. Still, they're not entirely "free," since they're confined to barns and consume a corn or soy diet.
Free-Range: Allotted less than 2 square feet per hen, these animals have more space than their caged and cage-free peers, but they don't get outdoors as much as you may think. Some seldom get to see the light of day and many eat a corn- or soy-based feed.
Pasture-Raised: These ladies are given at least 108 square feet each and consume some feed and lots of grass, bugs, worms and anything else they can find in the dirt. They tend to be let out of the barns early in the morning and called back in before nightfall.
Pastured-raised hens also produce healthier eggs, according to a 2003 study out of Pennsylvania State University. In it, researchers found that one pasture-raised egg contains twice as much omega-3 fat, three times more vitamin D, four times more vitamin E and seven times more beta-carotene than eggs from hens raised on traditional feed
But yes -- its bizarre that many ppl's alerts have bacame "EGGS, MILK, or BACON"
Cali trying to bully everyone else around the country.
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I don't understand full mechanics, seems like once user posts the deal, it may get promoted to front page for better visibility if it is a good one. I believe Slickdeals editors/staff actually decide on that.