The supply of organic eggs (and even regular sometimes) at Costco has been unreliable for the past few years. Sometimes you would be able to get as many as you wanted, sometimes you could only get two cartons, sometimes there would be none (not even a spot for them).
Then this last time we went there were unlimited organic eggs, but the brand had changed (from Kirkland Signature to "Contented Hen") and the eggs were medium? They aren't much bigger than our pullet eggs!
Usually, eggs in the stores are either large or extra-large. Smaller eggs are usually used in baked goods or egg products such as liquid egg whites. Did the chickens shrink? And why did the brand change? Well, it turns out the farm where they get their organic eggs burnt down.
The supplier of organic eggs for Costco burnt down?! Since when has that happened? Unfortunately, that is not the first time we have heard something like that. In the past three years there have been nearly 100 "suspicious" incidents of food producing businesses being damaged by fires, and over the space of only a week, planes crashed into two food production facilities.
Millions of chickens and turkeys have been killed in fires that have occurred at dozens of farms in the US, including Farina Farms Inc., one of the largest free range chicken farms in America.
The exact cause of these fires is not known for certain. Some claim that they aren't unusual, that people are "just paying more attention" but people don't usually just "start paying attention" to something for no reason. Everyone isn't just suddenly deciding to pay attention to house fires for no reason.
It's because something unusual is happening, food processing facilities all over the country are catching fire, and it is affecting huge distributors like Costco. That is not normal. Regardless of what people say however, the fact is, chicken farms are burning down, and it is affecting the egg supply.
Another thing we have been having a very hard time getting at Costco is ground beef, and guess what, cattle farms and meat packing plants have also been burning down...
Hopefully our meat calf continues to grow well!
The best defense against this growing unreliability of the food supply is to raise your own. Even in the city you can likely raise quail for eggs since they can be considered pets or exotic animals, not livestock. And you can probably also raise rabbits for meat for the same reasons.
Our younger ducks and chickens are starting to lay, so hopefully we can soon have all the eggs we need from our farm.
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