When you were a child, was it your dream to grow up, own an egg company and someday rip off all of your consumers?

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Or does that only happen as you get older and more cynical? I’m just asking. I mean WHO FUCKING DOES THIS? Well, The Decision Makers at Cal-Maine and Rose Acre Farms did.

A federal jury in Illinois has found two large egg producers and trade associations liable for conspiring to restrict supply and drive up egg prices, in a dispute the judge in the case said pitted “the nation’s egg makers against its egg breakers.”16 hours ago

This is so egregiously wrong that I find myself completely disgusted and disillusioned with humanity.

I don’t understand this species that I belong to.

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Don’t you mean eggregiously wrong?

Oh, and welcome to the realization that humanity sucks.

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Oh no, I missed a G.

Thank you for your reply.

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Eggcellent pun, well played. You live up to your username :clap: :clap: :clap:

And to the OP: yeah, humans are greedy, and Capitalism is a system that’s pretty easy to rig.

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This is what happens when the only thing better than money is more money.

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Manipulating the price of eggs, isn’t that literally a plot point in Catch 22?

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Would have been even easier if they had thought to set up a shell company.

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called it EGGRON

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That deserves an ova-tion.

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I see a lot of Dopers are scrambling right now to come up with egg jokes.

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Sigh, I guess we can just blame scrambled brains for it all.

Dang it, ninja’d and I just know I’m missing an obvious new pun.

But seriously, we should all be outraged about this and the actual people behind these decisions should never be allowed to have a cookie again because those need eggs.

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Heh, I poached your joke.

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Go over easy on yourself.

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I miss the days when Vincent Price was the only egg-centric villain.

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The yolk’s on us, I’m afraid.

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Well, damn.

Don’t I have egg on my face now.

Sorry, too lame. Also egg is too expensive to use as a moisturizer.

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No, that was a pretty good one- omelette you have it.

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Mighty white of you.

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It was purely eggcidental on my part.