I think this is a useful point but I'd disagree with the premise that it's necessarily "out of whack" for a 15% decrease in supply to lead to a 250% price increase. That's exactly what you'd expect for a product with very inelastic demand and no substitutes, similar dynamics with oil in the 1970s.
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TRUMP TAKE MAYO
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hellmanns-mayonnaise-and-mayonnaise-dressings-now-use-100-cage-free-eggs-in-the-us-three-years-ahead-of-schedule-300394645.html
Eggs are used in a massive array of products
I could see the vegan mayo becoming more popular.
(It tastes exactly the same)
If you do need the leavening, a combo of oil+water+baking powder is the way to go. You get the moisture, fat, and leavening that the egg would give.
I say this as a guy who loves a good fried egg!
Vegan baking isn’t necessarily bad, but the textures are all different. I expect totally different things with vegan baking than I do with non-vegan. I wouldn’t call these replacements as much as making something similar but different
But for some reason he never pays a price for that kind of bullshit.
There ARE substitutes... But it's a little complicated
(From someone who has started to do vegan baking... There are ways to replace eggs but it differs wildly from recipe to recipe)
... I'm not sure how many people actually know that though as that's very strange sounding to most.
It's definitely possible, and it's what I'd do if I didn't have eggs but needed them. It's not a 1:1 substitute tho
There's plenty of substitutions people can make when they NEED to, but we're finding $9 eggs isn't the point at which most of the population is swapping eggs out of their diet wholesale.