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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
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We are paying $7-something for jumbos, but haven’t been buying many because we rediscovered egg whites, sold in quart cartons. For $4-something for the equivalent of 18 eggs, and arguably better for you with fewer calories and zero cholesterol.
If I got eggs without yolks I’d consider myself robbed. I’m paying about $5/dozen for extra-large.
that’s because the same 18 idiot states still have laws requiring “cage-free organic vegan eggs”.
Time to resurrect that Chicken coop, but then the feed and time taken to attend a flock is likely a wash for the benefit.
Living in the MONAZ (middle of nowhere AZ) is part of it I think, someone has to haul the stuff from “the big city” to the hinterlands. I suspect that prices will keep dropping as the panic level subsides and stupidity over killing healthy hens also diminishes.
Well, when you have factory sized farms and a few chickens get bird flu the whole batch of a million, or more, birds have to be euthanized, this is what you get.
North of disorder, we have this thing called supply management that DonOLD hates. He wants American factory farms to flood the Canadian market and put the local farmers out of business.
The Canadian supply management system keeps normal-sized farms in business. This means when a few birds get bird flu it’s no millions of chickens that get put down, it’s a few tens of thousands, so the supply chain isn’t as disrupted. When the exchange rate is factored in, eggs at our local grocery store are $3.70.
Bigger, isn’t always better.
there are 1.7 trillion birds in commercial production in the u.s. at any given time. a few million culled is nothing. but when eighteen states declare only “cage free yada yada” eggs are legal it causes problems. in those states the cost of land for production is prohibitive. they had factory farms that were meeting capacity but now all their eggs have to be brought in by trucks. their factory eggs have to be trucked to legal states, by truck. diesel is expensive……btw, you will never break even on chickens/eggs. the reason to raise them though is assuring availability and knowing what is in them. the crap fed to factory chickens would turn your stomach, and every bit of it is going directly into the eggs. i get therapy from watching them chase bugs in my yard too. worth every penny.
As someone noted, with cage-type egg setups, bird flu is a) less common* and b) can make for a much smaller cull, depending on regulations. Oregon is one of the damned-by-the-woke cage free states, and large eggs are stuck at $4.58 a dozen.
The neighbor who was raising chickens is moving back to Cali-f’n-ornia (why? dunno), and our border collie thinks birds are for chasing, so we’re not going to try to raise any. Means I only get an omelette once a week. Sigh.
((*)) The vectors frequently are from ducks and geese flying overhead and dropping poop. No way to limit the damage with the mass cull orders in place.
Funny thing is since the eggs went thru the roof, I’m finding lots more cracked ones in the cartons now.
Here’s an example of why egg prices are more expensive in the once United States these days.
https://www.theanimalreader.com/2024/04/03/mass-killing-of-2-million-chickens-at-us-farm-after-bird-flu-outbreak/
riverrider says:
April 7, 2025 at 7:30 am
“there are 1.7 trillion birds in commercial production in the u.s. at any given time”
That’s not bad considering there are only 26 billion chickens* of all types in the world.
https://worldostats.com/country-stats/chicken-population-by-country/
I don’t buy the cheap ones at the grocery store. Where I get them the price has dropped 25 percent
@SoCoRuss: If you are in a cage-free situation, you are probably seeing wide variation in shell thickness/strength. We’ve been staying with one vendor, and the eggs are all over the map. OTOH, they have really good cartons, so we’re not seeing breakage. So far. Sigh.
I paid a shade under 6 bucks for a dozen eggs this week.
Well, I’m for the moment using my survival resources (150 dozen freeze-dried eggs) to get through this temporary stupidity.
BTW, dude, where ya been? Fall down a gulch somewhere?