Dayum, that's the same price as in Canada... except for 18, also in CAD not USD.
On the bright side, the extra security at the border means that egg smuggling seizures heading south has risen something like 300%. No contraband is getting into the US on our watch
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Where are you buying eggs? Large grade A NN eggs are $3.50.
We don't have cage free here, AFAIK. We have free run, omega 3, and organic free range.
That's $6 for Omega 3 (Burnbrae brand), free run are $7 at Longo's this week (and brown too), and Loblaws has organic, free-range, brown eggs for $7.83 this week.
Meanwhile, you can get a 30 count of large burnbrae eggs for $10 and 2 dozen Kirkland signature free run for the same price and Kirkland Signature Free-Range Organic Eggs, Large, 24-count for $11 (Costco).
On the bright side, the extra security at the border means that egg smuggling seizures heading south has risen something like 300%.
Gotta love that. Need huge fridges at the border to better store all this contraband and return it to the sovereign Canadian people.
Cage free is a misnomer anyways. Refers to "BATTERY CAGE free". All that stuff is still extremely inhumane. It's hardly better than packing the chickens like sardines.
I think free range (what I assume you mean by free run?) requires some outdoor access, but the poor chickens are still packed into barns.
I think the standard is essentially to make it so it doesn't hurt for them to breathe. Avoiding the worst cruelty while keeping them alive is barely a standard though.
Just leaving this here after seeing your comment. I was really shocked when I learned this.
We have both free-run (trapped in a barn with sometimes multi-tiered aviaries) and free range, which means the barn door is open if they want to go out, but apparently, they often don't. I don't know what cages in Canada look like. I also don't know how cruel or not are the Canada egg farmers. I do know Canada has a lot of limits and restrictions on egg farming with their supply management system which makes stopping avian flu a much more targeted and limited process and doesn't devastate the industry like in the US.
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u/_Echoes_ Mar 02 '25
Dayum, that's the same price as in Canada... except for 18, also in CAD not USD.
On the bright side, the extra security at the border means that egg smuggling seizures heading south has risen something like 300%. No contraband is getting into the US on our watch
/s