Fresh Eggs Daily Founder Says Eggs Still Relatively Affordable Amid Grocery Price Surge

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For those who are still dizzied by the high cost of eggs ... Lisa Steele, a 5th generation chicken keeper and founder of Fresh Eggs Daily, tells TMZ ... eggs are still generally affordable when compared to the prices of other groceries.

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00:00It was like a perfect storm.

00:03So you've got fires at commercial egg farms that wipe out, you know, flocks.

00:08Then you've got the avian flu, which has wiped out about 15% of the laying, like, hens in

00:15the country.

00:17This year is a really bad strain, it happens every year, but whatever.

00:20And then you've got the cage-free regulations, which this year are starting to kick in in

00:25a lot of states.

00:26You know, like California, Arizona, I think, Massachusetts.

00:30So this means that the chickens can't be in the tiny cages, they have to, like, be allowed

00:33to roam, which means the farms have to give them more room, so it costs them more money,

00:37whatever.

00:38You've also got, those are the main things, but you've also got secondary, the war in

00:44Ukraine.

00:45They supplied a good portion of the world's wheat, which is what chickens eat, so chicken

00:49feed prices have gone up, gas prices, higher transportation costs, make the price of everything

00:54go up.

00:56And then you've got eggs just were added to the healthy food list.

01:00So now demand, probably people are going, oh, we can eat eggs again.

01:05So it's kind of like all come together.

01:10But realistically, you know, even like $5 or $6 for a dozen eggs, like, think of all

01:14you can do with a dozen eggs.

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