Latest Inflation Report Shows How Insane
Grocery Costs Have Gotten

But that's been the plan all along, hasn't it, China Joe?

Well, when the price of eggs in California double in about 6 months (to $6-$8 a dozen), whadda you expect. Sure, the bird flu has something to do about it but the California regs that require cage free and organic egg production have a lot to do with it.

We are now seeing the results of them burning the chicken farms. Eggs are $5/dozen and sometimes higher. If chicken flu is part of the problem, do we have China to thank for that? I can't imagine what it would cost to eat breakfast out now. OT: I save coupons when they are in the paper. Was going to use one at Subway a couple of days ago. There was a sign saying coupons could be used with only certain sandwiches - the ones with deli meat or meatballs.

The numbers are bad enough. But the increasing evidence that this is the result of a long time deliberate plan is infuriating. And the ballot box has been taken off the table as a means of resolving this…..

Dems have been disassembling our food creation and distribution system for years now. And add in the massive increase in energy costs, which directly impact planting, harvesting, processing and shipping food, and you get a quadruple impact. DemCommunists destroy everything that they touch.

My favorite wine and hard liquor have doubled in price in one week. I have now had to resort to drinking rot gut cheap stuff to drown my sorrows. Eggs are as valuable as catalytic converters along with bacon and ham. We now prepare casserole dishes with potatoes, beans or rice to make a pound of ground beef go further. It's a sad way to cut spending on our fixed income. Don't get me started on utilities we run our house colder this winter with nights being in the teens or low double digits. We installed a space gas heater to cut back on the larger gas furnace which helps. We travel just to the grocery store or doctor visits with the car. No road travel for us because we can't waste petrol. FJB

Their plan is to break you , spiritually and financially. They want to you to plead for the govt to help you. Do that and and the govt owns you.When the govt sets the price for everything there is no free enterprise. No capitalism.

I live in Montana where many of the eggs here come directly from Hutterite colonies and I used to work directly with egg producers in my last job which was working for a company that sold chicken feed to those egg producers. We have roughly 100 colonies in my area and I can’t think of a single colony that hasn’t had to euthanize at least 1 flock ( barn) of their birds. The damage has been extensive. It takes time to build a flock back up and when you have literally hundreds of thousands of birds to replace in an affected area, you also have a shortage of replacement chicks. Add to the fact that it’s now winter when chicks aren’t plentiful anyway and then you end up with a backlog of demand that really can’t be rushed. It will take awhile to get out of this.

But I got a .30 cent raise at my grocery store. Doesn't even cover the rise in prices of what I by in cat food. (And the snowball effect in just the pet food area - speaking as one who used to volunteer at various animal shelters - dogs and cats will suffer too in terrible ways. Not everyone views their animals as family.)

There is all these reports on inflation from the Communist run Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Communist death Democrats regime in power, and then there is our own stark reality that we experience daily when we gas up, shop for food, medical bills, etc.. Brings to mind the Eagles song with slightly different lyrics - There ain't no way to hide your Lying Eyes Biden Democrats.

My uncle used to raise chickens for Perdue. He had two buildings each about a 75 yeads long filled with chickens. Perdue would drop off the feed into the huge hoppers that my uncle had and about a week later, they would drop off the chicks. Thousands upon thousands of chicks. I don't remember the number of chicks he received, but you could hear them peeping from a hundred yards away. I used to walk through the buildings right after the chicks arrived. The floor was so covered with little chicks, one had to watch where one stepped so as not to step on a few. After 11 weeks, Perdue would return, and pick up the chickens. Some were so fat; they couldn't stand up let alone walk. After the chickens were taken away, my uncle had a week to clean the buildings before the next batch of chicks arrived, and the process started all over again.

The old men of the WEF consider us all to be expendable. They hope someday we will all "own nothing and be happy." To reach that goal they've got to get us to eat bugs. Chickens and eggs, industrially raised, are being cut down to a fraction of what they used to be when "a chicken in every pot," could be promised. I wondered why the big push for mRNA "vaccines." But they bypass eggs. Even had they worked, they could have been made without eggs.

Re #11. A common "contract grower" operation. Many of those sorts of operations used to be down in Florida and the SE states. I worked for a chicken farmer in the 1960s as a teen. Learned a good bit about the business. VERY close margins, and very easy to 'lose your shirt' in the business. A lot of folks signed up to be contract growers and after two or three years figured out that the big companies that they had conctracted with had accountants with sharper pencils than the growers had and the growers were barely making a tiny, tiny profit, or often, if they made a few small errors, losing money. The farm I worked for had four houses, 600 feet long, with a feeder mechanical room in the center with feed silos on the sides. I started scrubbing waterers, then went to fixing waterers and fixing the feeder, and finally as a handyman doing welding, building up rebuilt feeders, replacing equipment, driving the tractor and finally rebuilding the engine on the tractor. Learned a lot on that farm....and one of the lessons is that the egg business is a hard business. Regardless of what we are used to in prices for eggs, they are cheap protein. But they could be far cheaper if the diseases weren't being brought in. I wonder if the illegals are bringing in chicken diseases, too. They bring human diseases by the train load.

This Inflation at all Levels has got to be Intentional. No one, even Joey, is that incompetent! Oh, Wait, maybe it's both!

You can not trust any number provided by this faux administration. Lies, lies, and more lies. A million jobs added was really 10,000 jobs, reported months later at 9 PM on a Friday night. Same thing with the slight drop in inflation. We all know inflation is increasing if you go to the store or a restaurant. I picked up a shirt at the cleaners today, used to be $2.40 and now it’s $3.20. You can’t get out of Publix with a small bag of groceries for under $50.

Last weekend, 6-packs ( 16 oz. bottles) of pop were 4/$12, this week they're 4/$18. It's not an essential item but it is a good example of what happened in just one week. The prices on items I do purchase on a weekly basis have me standing in the aisles with my eyes bugging out.

I recall that during the Nixon-Ford era when we were dealing with LBJ’s Great Society inflation, CBS sent a reporter - I think it was Bill Plante - into the grocery store and he would buy the same basis food items every week and report on the price increase. Of course CBS won’t do that now as it would embarrass FJB.

Baby chicks grow into laying hens in a very short time, a few months. So maybe lots of chickens has to be destroyed but why aren't they being replaced almost immediately. This is a created shortage. As is most things now. But come on, $6 for a dozen eggs! Ridiculous.

Re #18. Those chicks come from breeding operations, and while I don't have any direct knowledge....my bet is that they have been hit equally hard by the bird flu. First you rebuild your breeding hens and get them laying and the roosters breeding them, and THEN you ship chicks to the egg and meat producers. It takes about 4-6 months to get a chick up to the age where they can lay eggs. Suppose you have a flock of 10,000 laying hens, and are producing maybe 8,000 fertile eggs a day. Once you are rolling....you can ship 8,000 chicks a day. But then the bird flu kills 98% of the hens. So, you have 200 live breeding hens, can get maybe 160 fertile eggs a day. That means if you roll every chick back to grow breeder hens, that means after 63 days, plus 21 days for them to hatch, you have your breeders back alive - as chicks or partly grown hens. In another 4-6 months you can start shipping chicks again. So, 63 days + 21 days = 84 days or about 3 months minimum to have a breeding flock again, and then 6 months more to start shipping chicks. Then 4-6 months for those chicks to start laying eggs. Not something where you can just snap your fingers. I think a breeder that has been hard hit will be not shipping chicks for at least six months and eggs from that generation of chicks is another 4-6 months getting on line. It could be 10 months to a year before things START to sort out. for

Every time I go grocery shopping, I remember the prices I paid for orange juice, butter and bacon before Vegetable occupied the White House in January 2021.