Mung bean omelet, anyone? Sky high egg prices crack open market for alternatives

The reason? A lot of it has to do with the usual suspects: rising energy prices and rising prices for feed, packaging and labor.

He hears this from his customers: they go to the supermarket and there aren't any eggs."These huge freezers are empty," he says. That has people worried that eggs might start being hard to find.Ron Kern and his son Tony show off some of the eggs they've gathered outside of their chicken coop at Back Forty Farms in Nampa, Idaho.

The eggs Kern and his son just collected will be cleaned, cracked, whipped and poured into cookie sheets that go into the freeze dryers. The proof is in the profits. The monent Kern started selling his eggs online, orders poured in from all across the country. Inelastic demand is usually reserved for necessities, like gasoline, electricity etc. Eggs are an exception.

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Mung bean omelet, anyone? Sky high egg prices crack open market for alternativesEggs have tripled in price in the last few years. Now competitors are hoping to lure Americans away from their beloved breakfast food for substitutes that mimic the taste — but cost far less. please fire whoever came up with that pun 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?
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