Photo taken yesterday (2025-02-08) at a supermarket in Kyoto, Japan.

Alt text: A picture of the eggs section in a Japanese supermarket. There’s a 10-pack of eggs going for 215 Japanese Yen, which is about 1.42 US dollars.

  • socsa@piefed.social
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    2 days ago

    It’s actually kind of funny, at Aldi the price of regular eggs doubled to like $4.50, but the price of the free range eggs went up like $0.50 to $5.75. It dawned on me that the reason my egg costs have not varied that much is because I was always buying the better eggs the whole time.

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      2 days ago

      Free range means they put 100k of them in a giant warehouse vs. penning them.

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        2 days ago

        The eggs I’m thinking of are specifically “pasture raised” (the blue box). But you are thinking of “cage free.” In the US “free range” requires access to some amount outdoor space per hen.