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| Eggs...Are You Still Buying | |
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| Topic Started: Jul 8 2015, 02:31 AM (1,731 Views) | |
| Trotsky | Jul 8 2015, 02:31 AM Post #1 |
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Bird Flu has devastated much of the Central and Western states with IOWA alone losing 25 MILLION laying hens. Prices are soaring and I am always adamant to cut back when these episodes occur. I do it for coffee when prices soar, I got rid of the car when gas soared, I rarely eat beef and now we have cut back drastically on eggs. I feel that if all consumers do this, that when supplies are normalized the price gouging will stop and normalcy will reign in the marketplace. So we have added a cold cereal breakfast, a bit more steel cut oats breakfasts and a continental (bagel only) breakfast atop a weekly lox and bagel breakfast. We are doing eggs only once a week instead of 4 times...last a ham and cheese omelet. (Today's breakfast: Special K and Milk.) How about you? Are you seeing super-high egg prices? Are you cutting back? Gotta learn to make a congee. Edited by Trotsky, Jul 8 2015, 02:33 AM.
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| haili | Jan 19 2016, 12:33 AM Post #91 |
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I've heard that people with thyroid problems shouldn't eat soy and very little veg. in the cabbage family. I can't digest spinach or chard for some reason so have to avoid those though I really like them. I guess we all have our own limitations when it comes to food. I like meat but not in large servings. |
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| Durgan | Jan 19 2016, 01:50 AM Post #92 |
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Apparently the adverse controversy about soy disappears if it is fermented example being Natto and Miso. I don't know about making soy milk from Natto but probably worth a try if one makes Natto. I shall experiment. |
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| Trotsky | Jan 19 2016, 02:47 AM Post #93 |
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I think the kerfuffle over the dangers of soy are likely a result of some jackass shill like Mercola spouting nonsense and the meat and dairy people blowing the estrogenic effects, probably nonexistent, all out of proportion for obvious financial reasons given that soy is a ubiquitous and cheap high quality protein source, rivalling meat and dairy. Soy has been the staple protein for billions of the world's population since the beginnings of agricultural history. It is a perfectly safe food. Edited by Trotsky, Jan 19 2016, 02:52 AM.
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| Durgan | Jan 19 2016, 03:04 AM Post #94 |
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The soy controversy has sure put the dampers on soy consumption. The sheeple prefer Big Macs.I have been eating soy beans daily long before I even considered the pseudo hormone effects. I would go to breakfast after consuming a cupful of soy in my room when traveling and order a toast and coffee, and go to work and eat about seven at night. The Japanese couldn't understand how I con exist all day on two pieces of toast and a coffee. I never enlightened them. I consider soy a wonder food even the way I cook it. I prefer the Natto, but still haven't mastered a simple way of making it. I have a batch going now hoping for the best. It will be finished tonight. |
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| Olive Oil | Jan 19 2016, 05:11 AM Post #95 |
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I'm suspicious of ANY product that is added to almost everything. Moderation and variety seems the safe road. Soy bean products are very healthful including tofu fermented beans and the lowly bean itself. Large amounts of processed soy and soy oil? I'm not so sure it doesn't have averse effects. |
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| Trotsky | Jan 25 2016, 05:06 AM Post #96 |
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Large amounts of processed soy and soy oil? I find soy oil rather repulsive and never buy it anymore for salad (sold usually as VEGETABLE OIL.) When heated, the smell is truly GHASTLY. |
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| Darcie | Jan 25 2016, 05:14 AM Post #97 |
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I mostly use light cold pressed olive oil for everything and on advice from nutritionist stay away (try to) from soy anything. |
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| Trotsky | Sep 11 2016, 11:20 AM Post #98 |
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Back to eggs: I saw them at ALDI's priced at $.79 a dozen-large. I guess they hatched an awful lot of hens in IOWA. |
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| agate | Sep 11 2016, 11:32 AM Post #99 |
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OMG...large eggs are over $3 here |
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| Olive Oil | Sep 12 2016, 04:50 AM Post #100 |
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I payed a premium price for some free range eggs from Costco. They were lovely eggs but many of them were fertilized. I would have liked to have made a egg salad sandwich but the ick factor was there. |
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| campy | Sep 13 2016, 09:57 AM Post #101 |
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You should have reported that. There's no way eggs fertilized should be sold. They are supposed to be 'candled'. They shine a powerful light through the shell to see if they are unfertilized and fertilized eggs should not be sold on the open market. I worked for a place that had an egg candler in the basement. I used to visit quite often because she was a beauty. |
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| heatseeker | Sep 13 2016, 12:40 PM Post #102 |
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We buy free range eggs here in South Lancaster for $4 a dozen. Huge eggs, bright orange yolks, very fresh. The people who sell them told us that the door to the place the eggs are kept is always open, and if they're not around, just leave money inside. I like that. |
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| Kahu | Sep 13 2016, 03:37 PM Post #103 |
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There's quite a range in egg prices here - from about NZ$3.50 to NZ$10.00. Generally speaking, free range organically produced eggs have a higher cost of production. New Zealand free range eggs too expensive and scarce for Australia New Zealand poultry farmers will not be scrambling to help Australian egg lovers who are in the grip of a shortage as producers struggle to meet new free-range laws. New Zealand hens have eased off production for winter so there are no spare for export, and even if there were, New Zealand's higher standards for free-range eggs means they would cost too much across the Tasman compared to Australian free-range eggs. "Our maximum outdoor stocking density is 2500 hens per hectare but for Australia it is 10,000 hens per ha, far higher than anywhere else in the world – it wouldn't actually meet the definition of free range elsewhere in the world. We also have set standards on housing, range management, outdoor access, and so on," Michael Brooks, executive director of the Poultry Industry Association of New Zealand, said. In March, the Australian government introduced a legal definition of "free-range", which limits producers to one chicken per square metre and requires chickens to have "meaningful and regular access" to the outdoors. Source Link New Zealand’s world-class Egg Industry provides consumers with choice, and good welfare for hens Posted July 15, 2016 Here are the facts why switching to free-range eggs only is not viable. 1) Choice and price + All Kiwis want to provide nutritious food for their families but the majority need to work to a weekly food budget. The Egg Industry supports consumers’ desire for choice with a range of egg products and prices. + Eggs at the right price are a nutritious, versatile food staple that should be accessible to everybody. To supply that need, the Egg Industry provides a three-system farming model with eggs supplied from colony/cage, free-range and barn production systems. + This system is well proven to deliver a choice of prices for New Zealanders. It also provides optimum welfare for the birds, security of egg supply, biosecurity, and commercial viability for our farmers. + Colony, free-range and barn systems all comply fully with the regulations of the Layer Hen Code of Welfare which puts the welfare of the birds first and foremost. + The importance of choice for Kiwi consumers is reflected in supermarket sales data which show that while free-range eggs are certainly growing in popularity, sales of colony/cage eggs are showing even stronger volume growth. Source Link Colony Egg Production System See for yourself Pictures speak a thousand words, so for a very good look at a modern Colony system in operation in New Zealand, as well as Free-range and conventional cage systems, have a look at this 2014 footage by the investigative journalism programme, Campbell Live:Watch The Video What is “Colony”? The Colony system of egg production has been in the news lately but many New Zealanders are still unfamiliar with it. Colony (or the Enriched Colony Enclosure production system to give it its full name) is the Government-approved replacement for conventional cages which, under the provisions of the Layer Hens Code of Welfare 2012 are being phased out completely by 31 December 2022. This is an initiative that places New Zealand in the forefront of egg industry innovation worldwide: the European Union (EU) is the only other entity to have banned conventional cages or to have such a change in prospect. Source Link NZ Supermarket Prices for Eggs |
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