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Billionaire Egg Baron Pays Contract Farmers Just 26 Cents per Dozen

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Billionaire Egg Baron Pays Contract Farmers Just 26 Cents per Dozen

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Exposed: Billionaire Egg Baron Pays Contract Farmers Just 26 Cents Per Dozen | Farm Action
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The largest egg corporations are raking in profits as prices soar, but how are contract farmers getting along? As it turns out, not well.

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  • Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The secret ingredient is exploitation.

  • confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Per the article, the family farmers got a 1.25c per dozen increase 6 years ago.

    • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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      To help clarify, just because of units and decimals… That is a $0.0125 increase per dozen 6 years ago to the current rate of $0.2675 per dozen.

    • StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml
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      Them greedy farmers are running egg prices!

    • Landless2029@lemmy.world
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      Verizon Math

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