### Author:  [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/1 "2023-11-22T13:24:02Z")
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.
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**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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### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/2 "2023-11-22T13:35:28Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#):
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> This is so egregiously wrong that I find myself completely disgusted and disillusioned with humanity.
Don’t you mean eggregiously wrong?
Oh, and welcome to the realization that humanity sucks.
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### Author:  [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/3 "2023-11-22T13:38:03Z")
Oh no, I missed a G.
Thank you for your reply.
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/4 "2023-11-22T13:49:02Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#):
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> Don’t you mean eggregiously wrong?
Eggcellent pun, well played. You live up to your username 👏 👏 👏
And to the OP: yeah, humans are greedy, and Capitalism is a system that’s pretty easy to rig.
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### Author:  [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/5 "2023-11-22T13:53:32Z")
This is what happens when the only thing better than money is more money.
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### Author:  [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/6 "2023-11-22T14:00:47Z")
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giGkt5oAhT0)
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### Author:  [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/7 "2023-11-22T14:01:08Z")
Manipulating the price of eggs, isn’t that literally a plot point in _Catch 22_?
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/8 "2023-11-22T14:02:36Z")
> [@solost](#):
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> > [@Ike\_Witt](#):
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> > Don’t you mean eggregiously wrong?
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> Eggcellent pun, well played. You live up to your username 👏 👏 👏
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> And to the OP: yeah, humans are greedy, and Capitalism is a system that’s pretty easy to rig. -
Would have been even easier if they had thought to set up a shell company.
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### Author:  [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/9 "2023-11-22T14:03:22Z")
called it EGGRON
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### Author:  [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/10 "2023-11-22T14:03:27Z")
> [@running\_coach](#):
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> Would have been even easier if they had thought to set up a shell company.
That deserves an ova-tion.
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/11 "2023-11-22T14:04:03Z")
I see a lot of Dopers are scrambling right now to come up with egg jokes.
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### Author:  [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/12 "2023-11-22T14:04:13Z")
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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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/13 "2023-11-22T14:06:49Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#):
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> Dang it, ninja’d and I just know I’m missing an obvious new pun.
Heh, I poached your joke.
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### Author:  [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/14 "2023-11-22T14:09:30Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#):
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> I just know I’m missing an obvious new pun
Go over easy on yourself.
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### Author:  [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 2:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/15 "2023-11-22T14:10:47Z")
I miss the days when Vincent Price was the only egg-centric villain.
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### Author:  [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/16 "2023-11-22T14:15:56Z")
The yolk’s on us, I’m afraid.
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### Author:  [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/17 "2023-11-22T14:19:30Z")
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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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/18 "2023-11-22T14:20:53Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#):
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> Don’t I have egg on my face now.
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> Sorry, too lame.
No, that was a pretty good one- omelette you have it.
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/19 "2023-11-22T14:42:53Z")
> [@solost](#):
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> I poached your joke.
Mighty white of you.
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### Author:  [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2023, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-you-were-a-child-was-it-your-dream-to-grow-up-own-an-egg-company-and-someday-rip-off-all-of-your-consumers/993529/20 "2023-11-22T14:43:39Z")
> [@Cervaise](#):
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> Mighty white of you.
It was purely eggcidental on my part.
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