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Chicken Breasts Jumped Overnight by $1 lb In My Area

Foxxee — Wed, 04 May 2022 21:11:13 GMT

Around 35% overnight. Eggs, 150%.

When is everyone going to loudly protest these unreasonable price hikes?

Re: Chicken Breasts Jumped Overnight by $1 lb In My Area

Porcelain — Wed, 04 May 2022 21:17:03 GMT

When I saw the headline, this is what I first thought of. Spring chicken. Boing boing boing.

But, joking aside, if you feel passionately about this you absolutely should make your voice heard. You can picket your grocery store and cancel them. Or you could protest at a meat processing plant.

Re: Chicken Breasts Jumped Overnight by $1 lb In My Area

On It — Wed, 04 May 2022 21:19:48 GMT

@Foxxee I think the chicken and egg prices are related to the bird flu that is hitting the poultry industry. Millions of birds have been died. Poultry producers are being encouraged to keep flocks indoors. It is a mess.

People are being asked to refrain from using bird feeders and causing wild birds to congregate to a common food source rather than remaining scattered in the wild. The transmission rate is extremely high and as I understand it there is no preventative. I just hope poultry producers can survive.

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elated — Wed, 04 May 2022 21:22:59 GMT

I saw that their might be a chicken shortage due to the bird flu. I heard they have lost millions of birds. That is the reason for the price increase.

Re: Chicken Breasts Jumped Overnight by $1 lb In My Area

Sooner — Wed, 04 May 2022 22:15:26 GMT

@Foxxee wrote:
Around 35% overnight. Eggs, 150%.

When is everyone going to loudly protest these unreasonable price hikes?

@Foxxee You can't protest something like this.

Re: Chicken Breasts Jumped Overnight by $1 lb In My Area

Kachina624 — Wed, 04 May 2022 22:42:52 GMT

@Foxxee They may not be unreasonable. Supply and demand. Have you not heard that farmers have had to destroy hundreds of thousands of chickens due to bird flu? It was inevitable that prices of chicken products would go up.

Re: Chicken Breasts Jumped Overnight by $1 lb In My Area

drizzellla — Thu, 05 May 2022 14:47:02 GMT

DES MOINES, Iowa -- The confirmation of bird flu at another Iowa egg-laying farm will force the killing of more than 5 million chickens, state officials said Friday.

It's the second confirmed case of avian influenza in Buena Vista County, about 160 miles (257 kilometers) northwest of Des Moines, but the latest outbreak is at an operation with 5.3 million chickens. The earlier case was at a farm with about 50,000 turkeys.

The latest case confirmed by the state Department of Agriculture means nearly 12.6 million chicken and turkeys in at least eight states have been killed or will be destroyed soon.

Re: Chicken Breasts Jumped Overnight by $1 lb In My Area

fthunt — Wed, 04 May 2022 23:12:48 GMT

Eat Steak..............................

(there's plenty cuz the price is even higher)

Re: Chicken Breasts Jumped Overnight by $1 lb In My Area

Desertdi — Thu, 05 May 2022 01:58:18 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
@Foxxee They may not be unreasonable. Supply and demand. Have you not heard that farmers have had to destroy hundreds of thousands of chickens due to bird flu? It was inevitable that prices of chicken products would go up.

@Kachina624 And the drought out here has been going on for 27 years... di

Re: Chicken Breasts Jumped Overnight by $1 lb In My Area

Lucky Charm — Thu, 05 May 2022 02:16:16 GMT

I just bought two large packs of Organic Chicken (it's called a Griller Pack) on sale at $3.49/lb. Reg. $4.69/lb.

Each pack contains two huge breasts and 5 to 6 drumsticks.

My husband eats mostly chicken as his meat. The largest pack, as an example, I can make him about 8 meals for $12.88.

I almost always buy on sale and freeze or cook right away and freeze.

Re: Chicken Breasts Jumped Overnight by $1 lb In My Area

Foxxee — Thu, 05 May 2022 02:20:52 GMT

@Sooner wrote:
@Foxxee wrote:
Around 35% overnight. Eggs, 150%.

When is everyone going to loudly protest these unreasonable price hikes?

@Foxxee You can't protest something like this.

@Sooner

Why not?

Protection from the bird flu is the answer.

Look to the giant ‘chicken jails’ or chicken factory farms around the world as a more likely source for Bird Flu viruses, not to small chicken farmers, Chickens are so packed together they have problems turning around. Of course, bird flu would spread like wildfire.

So, no, I will not accept these "unreasonable" high prices without voicing my opinion.

Re: Chicken Breasts Jumped Overnight by $1 lb In My Area

Foxxee — Thu, 05 May 2022 02:24:10 GMT

@Kachina624, @Cakers3

See my reply to @Sooner

Re: Chicken Breasts Jumped Overnight by $1 lb In My Area

Lucky Charm — Thu, 05 May 2022 02:30:59 GMT

@Foxxee wrote:

@Sooner wrote:
@Foxxee wrote:
Around 35% overnight. Eggs, 150%.

When is everyone going to loudly protest these unreasonable price hikes?

@Foxxee You can't protest something like this.

@Sooner

Why not?

Protection from the bird flu is the answer.

Look to the giant ‘chicken jails’ or chicken factory farms around the world as a more likely source for Bird Flu viruses, not to small chicken farmers, Chickens are so packed together they have problems turning around. Of course, bird flu would spread like wildfire.

So, no, I will not accept these "unreasonable" high prices without voicing my opinion.

I agree with you about the horrible conditions @Foxxee

I can't even eat anything like that. I just. Can't.

Re: Chicken Breasts Jumped Overnight by $1 lb In My Area

Sooner — Thu, 05 May 2022 04:31:04 GMT

@Lucky Charm wrote:
@Foxxee wrote:

@Sooner wrote:
@Foxxee wrote:
Around 35% overnight. Eggs, 150%.

When is everyone going to loudly protest these unreasonable price hikes?

@Foxxee You can't protest something like this.

@Sooner

Why not?

Protection from the bird flu is the answer.

Look to the giant ‘chicken jails’ or chicken factory farms around the world as a more likely source for Bird Flu viruses, not to small chicken farmers, Chickens are so packed together they have problems turning around. Of course, bird flu would spread like wildfire.

So, no, I will not accept these "unreasonable" high prices without voicing my opinion.

I agree with you about the horrible conditions @Foxxee

I can't even eat anything like that. I just. Can't.

Then rising chicken prices won't affect you. . .

Re: Chicken Breasts Jumped Overnight by $1 lb In My Area

northiie57 — Thu, 05 May 2022 07:12:30 GMT

Chicken Breasts here have been continually high for over a month. All chicken thighs and legs staying at the .99 cents a lb. Ocassional whole roaster for .99 as well. Eggs this week $2.99 for free range dozen. I have not bought breasts in months.

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Tinkrbl44 — Thu, 05 May 2022 07:52:35 GMT

@Foxxee wrote:
Around 35% overnight. Eggs, 150%.

When is everyone going to loudly protest these unreasonable price hikes?

@Foxxee

More than anything it's the bird flu thing affecting those prices.

Protesting loudly won't do anything. Inflation is affecting countries all over the world, not just the U.S.

Funny, I was shopping this week and thinking about my shift in thought about purchases since the beginning of the pandemic.

A few years ago, I was happy to compare prices and buy during sales. Then the covid thing happened, and first people were standing in lines six feet apart, waiting to get in. Shelves were empty and toilet paper was the hot item.

Then it became not really as much about prices ... as finding a store that had what I wanted. Buying things even if I wasn't running low, but they had it on the shelves, so I better get one or two!

Recently, it's not really as much about shortages as it is about price jumps. I passed on buying something last week because I didn't need it, but when I went to pick it up this week, the price had jumped 65 cents! Grrrr.

BTW .... about chicken prices ... even when they go up, SOME store has chicken on sale. Chicken is always on sale ... somewhere.

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CalminHeart — Thu, 05 May 2022 11:52:33 GMT

@Foxxee wrote:
Around 35% overnight. Eggs, 150%.

When is everyone going to loudly protest these unreasonable price hikes?

Bird flu. I live in a state that produces chicken and eggs. Over 1 Million chickens had to be killed due to bird flu.

Chicken prices are up 125% here. Eggs are up 100%.

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phoenixbrd — Thu, 05 May 2022 12:03:31 GMT

@Lucky Charm I can't either. I voice my opinion by not purchasing.

@Lucky Charm wrote:
So, no, I will not accept these "unreasonable" high prices without voicing my opinion.

I agree with you about the horrible conditions @Foxxee

I can't even eat anything like that. I just. Can't.

Re: Chicken Breasts Jumped Overnight by $1 lb In My Area

chrystaltree — Thu, 05 May 2022 12:47:21 GMT

Nevet...lol. Do you really think marching through the streets with signs and bull horns can change anything?

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RespectLife — Thu, 05 May 2022 14:23:55 GMT

Voice your opinions all you want....it will sadly not change a thing.

Stop buying meat altogether, it will sadly not change a thing right now.

Conditions are what they are.

We have a choice to buy or not buy, but that won't make chicken drop in price anytime soon.

Getting the whole country to boycott chicken will never happen.