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The craziest thing about egg prices is that Donald J. Trump is in the Epstein files.

How much were eggs on Epstein's island?

Don't look over here (Epstein files), look over there (eggs)!

Huh i always thought the neoliberal Republican party was in favor of the free market. Why don't other states simply support their local egg producers and sell cheaper eggs from unhealthy chickens

For anyone who doesn't know, a factory farm is not a farm, it's a factory. The industry calls them, "Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations" or CAFOs. They house the animals in the smallest possible space, the highest "concentration", to increase yield per square meter and reduce exercise to maximize growth. They are not designed or regulated to treat the animals humanely, they are designed to get the most profit for the least amount of investment.

Prop 2 was on the ballot the first election I could vote in. We voted for better living conditions for animals, Obama to be president, and also constitutionally banned gay marriage all in one election.

Republicans will do anything but acknowledge Bird Flu

Newsom has become Donald’s replacement for Trudeau. He feels deeply insecure around handsome men. He desperately doesnt want to chance it again that another man standing beside Melania making him look like the live-in dawdling grandpa in diapers they are trying to convince to go into a home.

Dear California,

The artillery goes here.

I'm fairly sure that California having cage-size mandates does the opposite of driving up egg prices outside California.

They'll drive up California egg prices, sure. But California egg prices have been higher than egg prices outside California. That's because it's not legal to sell eggs produced in other states if the producer there doesn't produce to California's requirements, which eliminates California consumers as competition for those eggs. If you have a shortage in California production

as happened earlier

what happens is that prices in California go much more expensive, but prices outside California don't rise as much as they otherwise would, because California consumers aren't competing for the available supply.

California's cage-size mandates may be a bad idea for California egg consumers, but they shouldn't be driving up prices outside of California a la the Trump administration's claims.

I suppose maybe it's a media strategy, the aim being to fix the idea that it is California's fault in the minds of people elsewhere.

Anything to distract from Epstein, eh?

“It is one thing if California passes laws that affects its own State, it is another when those laws affect other States in violation of the U.S. Constitution,” Rollins said.

The absolute hypocrisy. From the party that happily allows one state sue a doctor in another state for violating their anti-choice doctrine.

"See! It has nothing to do with the tariff wars I caused." - President TACO

Trump should focus on Ohio instead:

Nobody tell him that egg prices dropped dramatically in March and have stayed down, I guess

I will never understand the economics of MAGA and how they interpret data. Its always totally illogical.

Unconstitutional? WTAF.

The most straightforward way to keep egg prices low is to have chickens. Since not everyone in D.C. has the space for chickens let's rip out that patio in the Rose Garden and put like a hundred of the fuckers in there.

If headlines can't even mention the battery cages this lawsuit is actually about at all, what are we doing here? Battery cages are horrifying and just the tip of cutlery

If the industry ever tells you that they treat anyone "humanely" remember that they are arguing to remove the smallest sliver of requirements. There is still a massive amount of cruelty allowed in other areas too (for instance chick culling, forced molting, etc.) and they are still angry on any requirement

There also has already been a lawsuit on other provisions in Prop 12 that went up to this current SCOTUS in 2023 and was rejected.

This almost certainly isn't even actually about the cost of this particular law to the industry. The latest cost changes are almost all driven by bird flu. No, the thing they fear far more than a tiny increase in their costs is that we'll actually start waking up to this industry. They worry Prop 12 will inspire more action. The more we talk about how things actually look, the more they worry that they'll become like the fur industry where people wake up and stop buying en masse over its cruelty

This argument will never hold up in court. The same measures that ensure animals are well treated, will often prevent the spread of diseases. Those inhumane production methods they are advocating, very often lead to higher transmission rates among captive bird populations.