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Subsistence Farming is Not the Answer
Homegrown eggs are even more expensive than the supermarket variety
We were promised cheap eggs on Day One of the Trump regime, but now we’re being told if we don’t like high egg prices we should buy some hens and produce our own eggs.
This is a pattern in the U.S.
When something goes wrong we decline to fix the system, instead leaving it up to every individual to cope however they can. Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps!
Confession: I have always wanted to keep chickens.
I was invited to gather the eggs for a relative once when I was a child, and I never forgot it. One of my (not yet published) novels, Scarlet Lily, has a ridiculous subplot about chickens. My first reader said I should take all the chicken bits out, and then changed his mind and said the chickens ended up being his favorite part of the book and maybe I should expand it.
This is just to say that there’s still plenty of country girl in me.
But no, we can’t just raise backyard chickens
You think the eggs in the grocery store are expensive?
