As with housing and gas, well-meaning laws are putting eggs out of reach for poorer Californians. No wonder functional poverty is rampant.
California is the wealthiest state in the nation, and yet it hosts the largest percentage of the population living in functional poverty. Why? The outrageous price of eggs is emblematic.
Our high gasoline prices are due to the highest taxes in the nation and special blend requirements. High egg prices are due to the avian flu, but they are significantly exacerbated by the Proposition 12 “free range” requirements that limit our egg supply to 30% of all producers.In a supposedly progressive state, these are all policies that push the cost of basics into unaffordable territory for the poorest Californians.
So, to learn that many consumers are now grumbling about high prices for eggs does not worry me. If customers knew of the inhumane practices to which chickens are subject, would they still hunger for eggs and meat? As for egg shortages, please. Birds and pigs since a year ago or more have been tortured to death slowly in the procedure of mass extermination known as “ventilation shutdown-plus.”
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