How eggs went from being something nobody bought to something supplied by an animal-immiserating, price-fixing, price-gouging cartel that crushes small farms and is making the bird-flu crisis worse. (Prices aren't coming down anytime soon, btw.) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... - ThreadSky

annielowrey.bsky.social • 7 days ago

How eggs went from being something nobody bought to something supplied by an animal-immiserating, price-fixing, price-gouging cartel that crushes small farms and is making the bird-flu crisis worse. (Prices aren't coming down anytime soon, btw.)

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/egg-prices-rising/681844/

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skeletonmanners.bsky.social•6 days ago

They're worth every penny when people will buy them in droves to throw at your golden mansion, traitor to humanity

toddgoldsbie.bsky.social•7 days ago

Gonna pay $3.69 Canadian dollars this afternoon for a dozen eggs. Could pay more for free range and/or organic. Our egg cartel is government regulated. I think you'd call that socialism; we call it supply management. I call it a good deal for all.

thembo.bsky.social•6 days ago

greaterhuff.bsky.social•6 days ago

You are fucking garbage

petra-b.bsky.social•7 days ago

2.64 euro for a dozen eggs

roblizzle.bsky.social•6 days ago

edoggthered.bsky.social•5 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/edoggthered.bsky.social/post/3lbqczekw222s

mfelps.bsky.social•6 days ago

Annie, are you okay?

ricdesi.dpad.fm•6 days ago

Genuinely stunned you and everyone along the editorial chain thought this article was a good idea.

oxahath.bsky.social•6 days ago

When people can't afford food, the correct response is not to go "it's weird how you could afford to eat in the first place."

Fascism is burning the country down and this is the level of insight we're getting from Very Serious People. We're fucked.

chrispg12.bsky.social•5 days ago

this is why trump got so much traction when he called the press the enemy of the people. he wasn’t necessarily wrong in what he said just how he meant it.

happybus.bsky.social•5 days ago

I have my own issues with @theatlantic.com which is why I let my subscription go. But to outrage at and go off on a journalist who wrote an article bc you don’t like the headline and opening teaser well, that’s just ridiculous. Read the entire article and cite what you do or do not like or stfu.

gwbiscuit.bsky.social•6 days ago

“It’s actually great that eggs are expensive” is a helluva take

blahpers.bsky.social•6 days ago

What are you doing

How do you possibly believe "Why do people even buy food instead of farming it themselves" is the appropriate question to ask today

blahpers.bsky.social•6 days ago

"Eggs should never have been cheap" is a wildly out of touch answer to people struggling financially, Annie

Why are you doing this

orenwatson.bsky.social•6 days ago

ragebaiting for clicks, obvs.

oxahath.bsky.social•6 days ago

I disagree. This is just genuinely the level of Very Serious People they employ over at The Atlantic. I'm not sure if that makes it better or worse.

blahpers.bsky.social•6 days ago

Ragebait for clicks, lose subscribers, stellar business plan

danieltuke.bsky.social•6 days ago

It’s so cool how often the Atlantic publishes pieces reminding us that nobody should ever read the Atlantic

beefboy.bsky.social•6 days ago

what fucking world are you living in bro. how fucking blind are you.

chrispb.bsky.social•6 days ago

Goebbels admires your continuing commitment to deep abiding lies.

azbees.bsky.social•6 days ago

Is it weird or is this the worst possible take of all time?

whoatemypizza.bsky.social•6 days ago

annie people are dying

haganational.bsky.social•5 days ago

She blocked me for that one

I guess that's what they do to dissenters?

haganational.bsky.social•5 days ago

Say it again and louder!, the insular bubble of rich and corporate and ivy trained NEEDS to know they speak for no one in this moment when they use their resources like this.

iantos.bsky.social•5 days ago

Do you ever look back and wonder what the you, who was once eager to be a journalist and bring truth to the world, would think of who you are now? At no point during the writing of 'manufacturing consent for increased egg prices' did you stop and think "What am I doing? Aren't I better than this?"?

annielowrey.bsky.social•5 days ago

The article argues that cartelization price-gouges consumers and makes bird flu worse so I have no idea what you’re talking about.

newenglandnole.bsky.social•5 days ago

They didn't read it.

abunchofcats.bsky.social•6 days ago

the poors dont deserve to eat eggs

scothawkins.bsky.social•6 days ago

Trump must love your article.

solkanar512.bsky.social•6 days ago

I hope you learn to feel shame.

greatdanega.bsky.social•6 days ago

Tone deaf

pjeanne97.bsky.social•6 days ago

🙄

uncommonsenseshow.bsky.social•6 days ago

"Eggs SHOULD be expensive, actually."

crys134.bsky.social•5 days ago

matthewn2025.bsky.social•6 days ago

Is this embarrassing for you? I feel like you should be embarrassed.

littlefonzie920.bsky.social•6 days ago

..something nobody bought? ..it’s a staple in the American cooking lexicon.

alexforscience.bsky.social•6 days ago

1) Did anyone who criticized this read past the headline??? The headline is tone-deaf clickbait but the article is about chicken welfare!!!
2) Seriously, the editor needs to stop with the rage bait headlines!

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