The real cuprit is bad farming practices and hygiene. Once again we can thank the CDC for downplaying the importance of good hygiene and sanitizing. After WWII there was a push to regulate hygiene practices at family owned farms. My paternal grandparents were one of the few farmers able to continue operating certain practices such as having a slaughterhouse on their farm because they passed the stringent new requirements. Until they shut down in the mid 1970s due to old age they supplied meat and other products free of charge  to many members of the community who refused to buy such products from supermarkets. When I visited  during the summers one of my tasks was feeding the chickens. I also remember how they  and their workers would cover their shoes or use only certain clothes or shoes when working on certain parts of the farm to avaid cross contamination. Many local farmers were shut down or faced insurmountable fines if they did not follow the rules. These super corporate owned farms don't face a fraction of the oversight that local farmers faced.  This is why we have so much food contamination now and such low quality products. Just another bogus excuse for price gouging. There is no reason for eggs to cost 7 or 8 dollars and until there is better regulation of corporate farms it will get worse for us. There is a reason billionaires and millionaires are buying up farm land for personal use.

The real cuprit is bad farming practices and hygiene. Once again we can thank the CDC for downplaying the importance of good hygiene and sanitizing. After WWII there was a push to regulate hygiene practices at family owned farms. My paternal grandparents were one of the few farmers able to continue operating certain practices such as having a slaughterhouse on their farm because they passed the stringent new requirements. Until they shut down in the mid 1970s due to old age they supplied meat and other products free of charge  to many members of the community who refused to buy such products from supermarkets. When I visited  during the summers one of my tasks was feeding the chickens. I also remember how they  and their workers would cover their shoes or use only certain clothes or shoes when working on certain parts of the farm to avaid cross contamination. Many local farmers were shut down or faced insurmountable fines if they did not follow the rules. These super corporate owned farms don't face a fraction of the oversight that local farmers faced.  This is why we have so much food contamination now and such low quality products. Just another bogus excuse for price gouging. There is no reason for eggs to cost 7 or 8 dollars and until there is better regulation of corporate farms it will get worse for us. There is a reason billionaires and millionaires are buying up farm land for personal use.

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