This is the best summary I could come up with:
Russia’s egg crisis spiraled out of control this week after an attempt was made on the life of the head of a poultry farm in the Voronezh region, with prices for the staple food item continuing to climb.
Gennady Shiryaev, the 59-year-old head of the Tretyakov Poultry Farm, the largest in the western Voronezh region, was driving home when an unknown person fired two shots at his car.
Russia has seen an unprecedented surge in egg prices this year against a backdrop of high inflation and sanctions imposed by the West in response to President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
A day before it happened, Russia’s Federal Anti-Monopoly Service initiated a case against Shiryaev’s poultry farm—and three other local producers—for sharply increasing egg prices in October.
In a rare apology from the Russian president, Putin said during his end-of-year press conference that insufficient imports and demand are to blame for the hiked prices.
Muscovites told news agency AFP in an article published on December 12 that they have experienced even steeper price increases than what has been reported by Rosstat.
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Metric carton of eggs.
Thanks to shrinkflation we will start seeing that in America at some point.
I can buy eggs in the following sizes at my grocery store:
4, 6, 12, 18, 24, 32
In the USA.
Since before the pandemic.
I have no idea what the 4 pack is for but it’s a silly looking container.
It’s not metric, but there’s another logic to it.
Those cartons are available for 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, 18, 20 eggs.
I feel old seeing to many variations on egg volumes. When I was a boy the tray had 36 and you could fill a half dozen carton or two hals dozens stuck together.
The standard wholesale tray is 30.
They stack better than boxes, so it makes sense to transport them that way for restaurants and other kitchens.
I haven’t seen the 30 trays in retail stores in several years. I guess most people don’t need 30 eggs at a time or it’s difficult to transport unwrapped
“Before, I used to buy eggs for 70 rubles ($0.78) a dozen. Now they cost between 130 and 140 rubles ($1.45 to $1.56)—twice as much,” Ilia Zaroubine, a 21-year-old student, said.
Near the end
And here in Quebec we are paying 6CAD(4.50)usd for a dozen… While not being embroiled in a war of our own design.
Correction: The 6CAD was for 18. That is what I get for checking grocery websites before coffee - It is more like 4CAD per dozen.
Americans and everyone else constantly complaining about food prices. Meanwhile us in Canada being fucked by the same three companies and a government who (regardless of party) hasn’t shown they give a flying fuck on lowering anything.
Even when Americans had the big egg shortage last year it was coming up to the average prices of eggs round me.
Utter bullshit. Half the time I’m too broke to afford food.
Is there a difference between regulations regarding eggs between the US and Canada? Eggs in the US are dirt cheap because almost nothing surrounding poultry is regulated. I’m happy to pay the premium in Germany for minimum living conditions, antibiotics restrictions, no culled male chicks, etc. but I also realize that not everyone here is as fortunate.
In the current economic system, widespread lowering of prices is considered to be harmful. So it’s not really possible without major economic reforms. Best solution is to increase wages/income to offset higher prices.
True, but the average income / buying power has to be factored in too, right? Caveman googling gives the average Russian’s income to be $14k USD / year whereas Swedes are at $47k USD / year. Assuming more caveman math, that’d be like paying $5.23/dozen in Rubles compared to $3.60/dozen in SEK.
Of course you can’t just do these sort of comparisons exactly, because money’s always more complicated than that, but I think it gives a better context.
Get the median, not the average income, to have a good comparison. The wealth gap in Russia is pretty big.
Do like I did and move out to the countryside, buy a vastly cheaper house with some land, work in IT so you can work remotely most days and get some hens. Spend far less on their feed than I did on eggs and I find home range eggs to be a very appreciated going away gift these days.
I do work in IT (software engineer) but I don’t eat eggs so much that I need to buy a damn countryside farm because my egg consumption is ruining me here in the city lmao. I’ll eat cheaper things/eggs only sometimes. It’s not the most expensive food here, in the least. 😄
I remember seeing a youtube video that broke down the economics of eggs, and you need like 35 chickens before your economy of scale begins to compare to the price you pay at the grocery store.
I don’t know if that figure was counting assumed labor on the part of the homesteader though.
You can’t just compare the dollar value of items across countries when median incomes and cost of living vary so much. The same dollar has different buying powers in different countries.
That’s crazy.
Those are still just a little bit cheaper than a dozen eggs at Walmart.
It doesn’t work that way. Eggs are not imported from the West and Western prices don’t apply on domestic produce. Russian earnings are nowhere near the Western ones on average.
Globally speaking though, $1 is still $1.
You could just say “Russia is a poorer country than the US” and still get the same point across.
“Before, I used to buy eggs for 70 rubles ($0.78) a dozen. Now they cost between 130 and 140 rubles ($1.45 to $1.56)—twice as much,” Ilia Zaroubine, a 21-year-old student, said.
I realize that it’s probably a greater percentage of total wages, but by US standards, that’s still dirt cheap.
Most American citizens, despite some struggles we face, still make twice as much or more than the average Russian.
In a rare apology from the Russian president, Putin said during his end-of-year press conference that insufficient imports and demand are to blame for the hiked prices.
“I’m sorry about this problem. This is a setback in the government’s work,” Putin said on December 14. “I promise that the situation will be corrected in the near future.”
Holy shit. Russians are serious about their eggs!
Look, it isn’t hard to substitute eggs in recipes. You can use applesauce, banana, chia seeds, flax seeds, or tofu. (To be fair, though, I don’t know what those cost in Russia as compared to eggs.)
He apologized about eggs?
What the absolute ever loving fuck? Sending hundreds of thousands of his own people to a meat grinder he can stop right now, but eggs he can apologize for?
Where’s the strongman?
In that case, it’s sad that he doesn’t think the Russian people would revolt over sending hundreds of thousands of them to die in a pointless war.
It’s something that affects average Russian people.
Don’t you remember when Americans were bitching about the price of eggs a few years ago? Basic ingredients are like gas. People notice when they go up in price.
People dying in a war are to make Russia great and defend itself from the outside world. Or something like that and anyway who gives a fuck when it’s not you and just some other random Russian who’s probably a criminal anyway.
But eggs fuck that affects me and shows how shit the country is. Now that’s a serious issue!
I … On the one hand I’m pretty sure humans are considered animals, on the other hand, if vegans can’t eat anything or buy any product that was made using the exploitation of animals including humans that… Pretty much rules out everything purchased under capitalism and most other systems too.
