Wait until vegans find out how much of their food comes from Mexico
That doesn’t help your statement at all. Between the tariffs on imported foods and the lack of migrant workers on domestic farms, vegetable prices are going to skyrocket in a way that could potentially make egg prices look tame… but I guess that’s “none of my business”
Farm animals are also typically fed with produce these days. Grazing has become largely the exception, because the animals take longer to grow. As such, when produce prices go up, animal product prices will likely climb higher.
Vaccines are made with eggs, it will affect you
Even if eggs go to $24/dozen, then the cost of egg per dose of flu vaccine would be less than a $1. I only get one flu vaccine a year, so still irrelevant. Also alternative methods for flu vaccine exist and are used already.
Isn’t easier to just… stop buying eggs?
Won’t the prices come down if people, you know, stop pushing demand for them?
Seriously not a bad time to consider vegetarianism or veganism.
Agree.
There is a great push towards this stuff. Mostly trough the meat industry whos products getting shittier by the day.
A good meal is texture + flavor. As long as you give me the texture and flavor I want I couldn’t care less how it is accomplished.
And if I have the choice between 2 products who are equal in texture and flavor, I pick the option that caused less suffering in the world.
It’s not even a push. My elderly mother was telling me about her elderly friends who were going on “missions” to find eggs where they spent tons of gas driving around all day just trying to find eggs to buy since they’re scarce.
It floored me. I literally said to her “do they not understand if they stop buying them the demand will decrease and so will the price?” She shrugged and agreed that it was really foolish and wasteful.
Some people are just really ingrained in their habits and don’t even consider changing things like this in their lives.
I recently was at a friends house and they had made vegan chilli, NGL best chilli I’ve ever had.
I agree with you on your food preference and it’s like a breath of fresh air encountering someone who thinks the same way about food.
You say that like we don’t import a fuck ton of our produce from Mexico.
Everything is about to get way more expensive.
Seriously not a bad time to consider vegetarianism or veganism
But eggs are vegetarian. Avoiding meat is easy, but eggs are in a ton of recipes and not all of them work with egg substitutes
Which ones? I’ve yet to encounter a recipe with eggs where I couldn’t satisfyingly sub in tofu, mung bean liquid (Such as Just Egg) or starch+tapioca replacer (Such as this) depending on the egg preparation.
Tofu is good for scrambles.
Mung bean is good for frying.
Stratch+tapioca is for baking.
That’s not how the modern American thinks, we’re so used to things just being always available in mass quantities, we’ve all but forgotten shortages happen and life requires problem solving. Look at what happened with the toliet paper thing, you can easily just use/wash a cloth (obviously not ideal, I’d recommend a bidet first and foremost) but your average American would rather rally at Costco and get into a fist fight over their precious rolls because they can’t comprehend or cope with adaptation, lol.
Wonder if Just Egg is competitive on pricing yet…
Where I am it’s currently $5.99 for the equivalent of 10 eggs. I expect that price to jump soon because capitalism.
Well if you use the liquid just egg, just remember low heat and add some fermented garlic 🍳
What is the fermented garlic added for? Could you substitute it for black salt? Just curious.
Ground beef has been creeping up too, I’m honestly curious at what point does Beyond / “Impossible” brands start breaking even.
It’s got a bit to go. Checked yesterday , granted at whole foods, and their fake ground beef was $0.56 and ounce while there regular ground beef was $0.38 per ounce . Both were the same 365 in store brand.
The cheapest fake ground beef cost about the same as the premium bison ground beef.
i dont really get why people have so much resistance when switching foods. seasons and shortages have existed since people started agriculture and when something becomes scarce, you pivot and eat what youve got. if there was some bizarre soy disease and tofu becomes expensive, im just gonna buy lentils 🤷
I was like this in the past, it’s just that you’ve spent your entire life eating the same things and only know how to cook those things (if you can cook at all), so changing feels very intimidating and involves several steps. It’s not just buying different things, it’s learning how to cook them properly and which ones you like, and getting over the bump of initial slight dislike of most new things which is pretty instinctive.
What we need is to help people learn to cook things and help them ease into trying new foods, ideally this would be family members and friends but specific community groups is good too.
this is a good and fair point. ive been cooking so long you can probably hand me any grain, legume, or vegetable and ill figure out something decent with it. my partner often tries to learn to cook with recipes rather than instinct and it takes like twice the amount of time and work for him 😭
