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2023-02-07 Economy

Eggs are now so expensive Americans are smuggling them in from MEXICO – with border agents reporting a 300% jump in the number seized since prices soared

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Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 OW, but let the drugs flow.

Posted by Dale 2023-02-07 04:14|| 2023-02-07 04:14|| Front Page Top

#2 Nevada rancher warns inflation isn’t over: Americans should prepare to pay more for groceries

Posted by Skidmark 2023-02-07 05:27|| 2023-02-07 05:27|| Front Page Top

#3 Why are they seizing them, as I understand alot of people who live on the border do their shopping in Mexico.

Posted by Chris 2023-02-07 09:16|| 2023-02-07 09:16|| Front Page Top

#4
Tractor Supply - Hoover's Hatchery Live ISA Brown Chicks, 10 ct.
$39.99 - Takes 4 to 5 months to start laying

Or you can buy grown laying hens and a rooster for $15 to $20 each from sources advertising on CL and other websites.

Chicken Feed $21ea x 6 bags to cover 4 to 5 months.

12 Square Feet Chicken Coop with Chicken Run area $199.99

Water and Food feeders $45

Total outlay for 1st Dozen Eggs, (Feed, Water , feeders & Coop) $390+/-

NOTE: strangely, many Metro areas are said to be quickly passing Anti-Poultry codes
during this EGG-mergency ☺.

Posted by NN2N1 2023-02-07 09:24|| 2023-02-07 09:24|| Front Page Top

#5 The old joke about "Grab my cock and pullet!"

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-02-07 09:25|| 2023-02-07 09:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Why are eggs so expensive? Big Pharma doesn't like them

Make of this what you will...

Posted by Warthog 2023-02-07 09:55|| 2023-02-07 09:55|| Front Page Top

#7 didn't accept the link

https://patriottruths.com/now-we-know-the-real-reason-they-hate-eggs

Posted by Warthog 2023-02-07 09:56|| 2023-02-07 09:56|| Front Page Top

#8 If they are using traditional drug smuggling techniques, I would think that the eggs would need to be hard-boiled. I will not be buying brown eggs until this all gets sorted out.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-02-07 12:00|| 2023-02-07 12:00|| Front Page Top

#9 According to Warhog's link @ #7, at least 23 fires have burned various food processing plants since January 2021. That's just a little bit suspicious.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-02-07 12:31|| 2023-02-07 12:31|| Front Page Top

#10 We are now at legal brick weed and illegal chicken eggs.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-07 16:38|| 2023-02-07 16:38|| Front Page Top

#11 Out: drug dogs
In: egg mongooses

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-02-07 16:40|| 2023-02-07 16:40|| Front Page Top

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