Cory Doctorow<p>Remember <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/eggflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>eggflation</span></a>? Nearly all eggs in US grocery stores come from a single company, <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/CalMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CalMaine</span></a>, which owns dozens of brands, including "Farmhouse Eggs, Sunups, Sunny Meadow, Egg-Land’s Best and Land O’ Lakes eggs":</p><p><a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/13/business/egg-prices-cal-maine-foods/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cnn.com/2023/01/13/business/eg</span><span class="invisible">g-prices-cal-maine-foods/index.html</span></a></p><p>With all our eggs in one basket, it was easy for a single company to rig the egg market, blaming everything from bird flu to Russian invasion of Ukraine for doubling egg prices while their profits shot up by 65%:</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/23/cant-make-an-omelet/#keep-calm-and-crack-on" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2023/01/23/can</span><span class="invisible">t-make-an-omelet/#keep-calm-and-crack-on</span></a></p><p>9/</p>