Just from a brief lookup, Vital Farms seems pretty legit plus they have the Certified Humane label. But I like that their website lets you look at the particular farm on a live video feed! For example, link to where these eggs came from, Farmer Johnson’s farm🐓 I just loved to see the little ladies clucking around😊
Yes, but did prices go back down to the same as before? And did prices not change even after enough time had passed (plus some) to rebreed laying hens? It might have started as a true issue, but it isn’t now, just an opportunity to raise profit margins.
Prices dropped dramatically around here, but producers anywhere would be fools to drop prices back to where they were, now that they’ve seen they have to factor in future bird flu disasters.
You sell widgets for $X. Your widget factory, along with about everyone else’s got wiped out. You didn’t just lose product, you have to basically nuke the place from orbit to get started again. This is going to be a periodical disaster, its the new normal. Are you going to continue selling widgets at $X? Or you you going to charge more to create a cushion against the next disaster?
tl;dr: You want cheap eggs, gotta factory farm. Gonna factory farm? Now you have heightened risk.
Alternately, birds not raised in circle of hell conditions get sick less.
But yes, factory egg farmers “learned” that their vile farming methods have future consequences for them, as well as present day awfulness.