Photo taken yesterday (2025-02-08) at a supermarket in Kyoto, Japan.

Alt text: A picture of the eggs section in a Japanese supermarket. There’s a 10-pack of eggs going for 215 Japanese Yen, which is about 1.42 US dollars.

  • Willy@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    The us has killed more than 15 million chickens just the last few weeks. Sometimes with foam. If other countries have to do that their prices will rise too. NHK had a great documentary recently about an egg family that was doing pasture raised eggs at $1 each.

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        2 days ago

        It’s actually kind of funny, at Aldi the price of regular eggs doubled to like $4.50, but the price of the free range eggs went up like $0.50 to $5.75. It dawned on me that the reason my egg costs have not varied that much is because I was always buying the better eggs the whole time.

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          2 days ago

          Free range means they put 100k of them in a giant warehouse vs. penning them.

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            2 days ago

            The eggs I’m thinking of are specifically “pasture raised” (the blue box). But you are thinking of “cage free.” In the US “free range” requires access to some amount outdoor space per hen.

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        1 day ago

        I haven always been buying “good eggs” but pasture raised are actually cheaper than battery at my local grocery the last few times I’ve gone. Kinda crazy.