The freeze dryers are about the size of a mini fridge and a row of them hums away in a little building near Kern's chicken coop.
A package of freeze dried chicken eggs contains costs about $20 a dozen. The eggs keep for more than 20 years, weigh almost nothing and store easily. They sell out as fast as Ron Kern can post them.A package of freeze dried chicken eggs contains costs about $20 a dozen. The eggs keep for more than 20 years, weigh almost nothing and store easily. They sell out as fast as Ron Kern can post them.Kern charges about $20 a dozen for his freeze dried eggs.
"The demand went nuts," he recalls."Every single package that we put on our online store was sold within 30 seconds. They just ... fly off the shelves," He adds:"I'm not even a pun person, but there you go."Basic economics tells us that when the price of something rises, people will buy less of it: Demand goes down.
"The demand for eggs is pretty inelastic," says Lapp."It's a cheap source of protein, it's convenient and consumers are very very fond of cracking that shell open and cooking their egg. The demand has been slow to change."Any interest in a mung bean omelet?
Gross
not me i’m vegan
vankapro Is the price increase trickling down to the farmers as additional revenue? Knowing how trickle down economics works, my guess is no.
This is bullshit! Fear mongering. A dollar more for a dozen and we’re all gonna die.
Last few years? Put down the pipe. In all stores in my area they've gone from $1.89 to $7 in the last 7 MONTHS
who honestly eats that many eggs?
Why do eggs need substitution? Is it because someone’s over-arching dietary paradigm excludes animal products without consideration that eggs happen irrespective of human dietary concerns or actions?
I don’t care if eggs cost $20. Those “substitutes” taste like wet plaster. You can keep them.
I assume that includes egg ingredients in processed foods. Otherwise, no way does the 'average' person consume 5 eggs each and every week.
I don’t know anyone who eats 2 dozen eggs a month.
So weird to me. I'm lucky to eat a dozen in a year.
Shocking…
An egg is now a whopping 30 cents. Everyone quit fucking crying.
Oh jeez I'm at like 1100 for the year
Blame it on biden idiots
Great story this morning!
i eat a dozen for breakfast 🥚 🍳
Last few years ? Have you even ever been to a store? It was fine a year ago!
End factory farming goVegan
Back when I was a kid we threw them at houses!!
Yeah about this. Not in my neighborhood. Maybe about 5% at the most. Your stats are probably based on shithole red states that have some of the worst governing platforms in the nation. Do better than this.
“Per year? Try per day, friend.” - Ron Swanson
🥓 bacon
Eggs bad!!
We should grow eggs in humans. Women perhaps, even.
“Hi, my name is Bill Gates, let me tell you about impossible eggs”
Biden’s America
In the last Year.
What kind of reporting is this NPR? Egg producers profits are at a record high. You could be reporting an actual story instead of a stretch of a piece like this. Do better
Since inflation, I've switched from real chicken to PEEPs.
I heard the story on NPR this morning… didn’t sound like they were all that close yet for egg lovers…
Chickens are super easy and cheap to raise. Just wash your hands and the eggs before use and you’ll be fine.
Or people can shop smarter and find eggs in their price range
“Make eggs cheaper” Capitalists: “Soylent green “
There's no alternative to a nice runny over easy egg. Nothing.
It's almost as if factory farming is a perfect disease amplifier, who knew?
Buy chickens and stop depending on people who force you to eat bugs while they eat steak on their private jets to their ocean front properties.
Iroquois white corn grits (onesta) & local maple syrup (wahta) w little milk, add strawberries or blueberries.
Do these substitutes have nutritional value?
Ask the producers if they are gouging the public and are their profits through the stratosphere? If so the public can only boycott and eat differently.
I eggs-pect the price to only increase further!
Never
Interesting how this avian flu only hit the egg laying hens and not the chickens raised for slaughter houses.
Should’ve said “egg-less”stential crisis
NPR helping excuse capitalism and lust for profits in the egg industry.
My neighbor has 4 chickens and a smaller yard than me. I think I might do the same
Pasture raised eggs are the healthiest thing you can consume. There’s no replacement for it. Also why aren’t you covering the Pfizer project veritas video?
Competitors ... wrong answer.
Can’t devil freeze-dried eggs!
I’m pretty sure it’s called corporate greed.
Just put in price controls. The problem is greed.
Get chickens. Neighbor has some. I have fresh eggs whenever I want them.
Hell NO
Pay attention who owns these 'alternatives'......Buy our Soy-Canola Oil Slurry! Yum🤮
I wonder if the wealthy will also move away from eggs to a food substitute that mimics the taste. I bet they aren't!
Will yall stop with the bull nonsense? I thought it was beef we weren't eating any more? And then chicken the year before that?
please fire whoever came up with that pun