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by likeabatterycar 504 days ago
> within 7 hours of NYC

Literally the definition of "not local"

> help supply the 19 million people of NYC with fresh eggs

This sounds like it could be one of Kramer's schemes on Seinfeld, where he's loaded his rusted-out jalopy with 5k eggs to bring into the city to sell for a profit, but somehow they end up all over the freeway and chaos ensues.
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greenie_beans 504 days ago
> Literally the definition of "not local"

lol that's hilarious. you can keep arguing about the semantics of that while panicking about the factory farmed egg shortage. it won't bother me because i'll be feasting on food grown by farmers i know, all within a day's drive from me. if you are lucky then the regional distributors will pick up the slack thanks to the "not local" farms.

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likeabatterycar 504 days ago
Most people with jobs and families etc. don't have a day per week nor gas money to spare to drive seven hours each way to go egg foraging. It's great you can manage this luxury but it's just not practical and a fairytale life for 99% of people. Not to mention many people in NYC don't own a car.
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greenie_beans 504 days ago
do you have a substantive argument or more ridicule? because i can go for both.

would you like to see my spreadsheet of regional distributors who move food into NYC from small farms in the northeast? it's possible you've eaten this food. or would you like to see demographic and usda farming data when small farms were the primary food producers during a time when the NYC metro had a similary large population, before CAFOs and the centralized ag we know today? or were those people fed because they went egg foraging?

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