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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
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Subject: Re: egg recipes wanted
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Date: Thu, 9-May-85 13:24:28 EDT
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Regarding the surplus of eggs:

Why are there egg-gluts now? Eggs cost 89 or 99 cents or more a dozen 
for months, and now, all of a sudden, they are free with $20 purchase,
or 29 cents, or you can buy all you want at 49 cents a dozen!

Is this time of the spring when all the chickens in the Northern Hemisphere
go into overdrive and churn out eggs like spitballs or something?

Or are there a mess of chickens producing eggs right now but will
soon be slaughtered for "eating"-type chickens and the egg supply
will drop precipitously? [I actually sort of thought that most chickens
that get cut up or sold whole, either in groceries or through Kentucky
Fried & etc. outlets, never got old enough to lay an egg, but then I'm
a city boy and know naught whereof I speak...]

Anybody have any idea as to the feasibility of changing the natural cycles
or whatever so that such gluts don't happen, but that the supply year-round
is increased, so that we could buy eggs all the time at the same reasonable
price (like maybe 69 cents/dozen) instead of them being high some times
and practically free other times?

I suppose now is a great time for the makers of freeze-dried egg-powder gorp...

Regards,
Will Martin

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