I really hate to pursue this, but is this about frozen food regarding animal products? Is that somehow worse than food from animals in general? Or like, how the frozen food industry treats their workers? I want to know, but maybe I donāt want to know?
It was the sanitation of frozen food in general. Frozen pizzas were mentioned specifically. If I recall, and I may be butchering this, it was something to the effect that since itās assumed that one will cook the food, they didnāt have to be so stringent about making it.
Basically he said that they will try to cut corners and cheat the system any way they can to make more $$&
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This is why I only eat pasture raised eggs. Iāve been a vegetarian since high school because of how cruel and repulsive the meat industry can be. I do get my MIL her eggs at Costco because she wonāt pay the higher price that I do.
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This is sort of egg-price adjacent: the main NJ-centered news source shared an article on FB about how a NJ research company has developed bird flu vaccine for the chickens. Most people were happy to hear that, but a few much-liked comments were some variation of āOMG if theyāre going to vaccinate chickens, guess I wonāt be eating chicken or eggs anymore.ā
The amount of facepalm exasperation that stance drew from among the non-idiot posters was epic!
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$8.49 for two dozen of local white eggs at Costco today. There was a sign that said, āLimit 3 eggs per member.ā 
People paused, laughed, and grabbed their 1-3 cartons.
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$5.99/doz for pasture raised. Thatās less than I usually pay. Not sure how the other prices compared. Limit 2 dozen but there were plenty there.
Im in Central MA
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Our Costco had no eggs today. I asked the checkout guy if there was a secret to getting eggs and he said they are gone in the first 1-1.5 hours every day.
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Played bridge today with my friend who has laying chickens. She said the girls havenāt been laying since itās been so cold here (-7 record on Tues, but should be 60 by sunday). Losing money every day cuz she still has to feed them.
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Taken a minute ago at Walmart. Plenty of eggs available, but my 18 ct of large is $8.94. That is now the highest Iāve paid
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I was just coming to report my Walmartās price. A dozen Great Value eggs for $5.97. Unit price almost identical on the 18-count.
My store had no specialty types or brands of eggs. Just Great Value
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I was just in Costco - not only didnāt they have any eggs, the egg section was filled with other products.
Shopping in Kroger this morning: Egglandās Best dozen large eggs at $4.79 today; Kroger dozen large eggs at $4.99.
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At Costco today, got 24 count, organic free-range, for 8.99.
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Today my TJās had brown eggs for $3.49/doz but their regular white cage free had increased to $4.99. Plenty of eggs in stock at 9am. Theyāre usually sold out later in the day.
I got a dozen from a friend with chickens last week. She only charged me $3. I wish she was a more steady supply!
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Boulder CO TJ had plenty of eggs yesterday. I got a dozen free range eggs for $3.89, even though we were still had about 10 eggs back home in the fridge.
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In our neighborhood we have a couple of small independent grocery stores, a Whole Foods, a TJās, and a Safeway.
Our independent grocery stores have always gotten their eggs from ālocalā (within 100-ish miles) cage free, organic, or pasture raised producers. The prices and availability have not changed at all since pre bird flu. Cage free or organic eggs: around 3.99 - 4.25 per dozen. Fancy pasture raised eggs: 7.99 - 8.99 per dozen. The egg fridge is always fully stocked with every type of egg.
I havenāt paid much attention to the egg prices at Whole Foods, TJās, and Safeway, because when Iāve walked past the egg fridge, most of the time itās empty. (I usually only go to these stores late at night when our local store is already closed.) But my husband tells me the egg prices at those stores have gone up a lot.
The chain grocery stores are literally walking distance from the small independent stores. So at this point Iām feeling confused about why people donāt change their shopping habits just a tiny bit. 
But I guess itās good for me that more people havenāt switched to buying eggs at our local store!
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Iāve decided to eat oatmeal for breakfast instead.
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I was going to say something about the death of proofreading, but maybe they did really mean 3 eggs:
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