The 60 pack of white eggs at Wal-Mart is around $11. Are they real eggs? They killed off a lot of chickens. And why are store eggs all white instead of the color variety of farm raised.
I know stores sell things like impossible meat and morning star veggie meat. But are they labeling all fake meat? I have texture issues so i used to like the idea of the fake meat. Now it just sounds like something to avoid.
they finished their production run of MREs for Ukraine.
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Walmart eggs? They were always bottom of the barrel quality
I wouldn’t be afraid of Walmart eggs (I used the big boxes a ton before getting my own chickens—the boxes at that time were $3.30 for FIVE DOZEN!), though fresh from a small farm is, of course, best, and I would highly recommend that if possible for multiple reasons.
They are white because they are from Leghorn breed chickens which have a very high productivity rate, so most inexpensive grocery store eggs come from Leghorns. Every breed of chicken lays a slightly different size, shape, and color of eggs, and people who REALLY know their chickens (not me—kek) can tell you exactly what breed a certain egg came from.
I think there really has been an egg shortage due to the cullings related to bird flu and various other issues, and it would have taken till about now for factory farms to get replacement hens raised (5 months from hatching replacement chicks). This is also the time of year for hens to start picking up production anyway, so hopefully the worst of the shortage/high prices are now behind us.
You say this but...,
My daughter hollered at me about a month ago,
"Mom, come look at this egg and tell me what's wrong with it!"
She had an 18 pack from Walmart.
The egg she had just cracked over a bowl of pumpkin bread ingredients had a tapeworm in it.
Only it wasn't long and thin...the part remaining [looked partially decomposed] was about a slight quarter inch thick with that ugly row of suckers at the very top.
Never buying Walmart eggs again. In all my long life I have never seen a parasite in an egg before.
That is creepy, for sure. It’s also a good reminder of the age-old advice to always crack each egg into a separate dish from your recipe: gives you an easier time fishing out any stray piece of egg shell, but more importantly, if a farm-fresh egg has been partially incubated by a broody hen and is no longer good for cooking with, you don’t ruin whatever you were making. My dad (old farm boy) taught me that years ago, but I also had to learn it the hard way! Sorry about your pumpkin bread. 😖
Most people are refusing to buy the eggs at the exaggerated high price. I stopped buying eggs at my regular store and started buying them at a cheaper price at another store. People who use the eggs for baking are buying the eggs on bulk at cheaper price and freezing them. Even the powdered egg prices had to come down cause people stopped buying them. And add to that all the people who got chickens to produce their own eggs.
You can freeze eggs in the shell?
Not in the sell. But there are alternatives method, like zip lock bags and molds. This is useful for baking. See links below.
https://www.theprairiehomestead.com/2011/10/how-to-freeze-eggs.html
https://www.wikihow.com/Freeze-Eggs
edit: Holy shit, I just saw a video showing how in China they DO make fake eggs, the yolk, and the white, synthetic materials. You can't tell until you cut open the yolk. So they appear real visually and to the touch, but not if dissected. Also, my info about the white chickens is incorrect.
Fake meat is supposedly being grown the same way cancerous tumors replicate their cells. No thanks. As for fake eggs, it would be a tad difficult to fake the contents within an eggshell. They are white because the breed of poor pitiful exploited chickens they use, produce white eggs. They bred chickens to have those monstrous heavy breast meats people want to buy. And they are the white chickens.
You’re right about the pitiful treatment of factory-raised chickens, however there are multiple breeds of white chickens, and the white Leghorns that lay the white eggs are super light, scrawny birds that put all their energy/feed into eggs, and almost nothing into meat. The white Cornish Rock Cross birds that are raised for meat grow so fast that they don’t make good egg layers and have a very low laying rate anyway. As a rule, livestock breeds either do well for meat or eggs/milk, but not both. Cows are another example. Dairy cattle and beef cattle have totally different body types. Neither are wrong/bad, they’ve just been selectively bred for different purposes in the same way people have bred for different types of dogs or anything else. Incidentally, the Cornish Rock meat chickens are not GMO, just intentionally bred for certain characteristics, and they can be raised very easily on small amounts of pasture for very healthy homegrown chicken. The breed is not the problem; the method for raising them makes all the difference.
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High prices lower demand,and that lowers the price.
There was never a real egg shortage. Just people claiming one which resulted in people buying more than normal which created the appearance of a shortage. It is always a demand supply issue. When people demand (purchase) more than normal, then the supply (store availability) is reduced causing the appearance of a shortage. Remember the toilet paper shortage in 2019? There never was one, it was just people purchasing more than normal.
Mrna pumped chickens