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GanglyKhan posted...

The populace is somehow not banding together and realizing if we all just agreed to not buy eggs for two weeks, we could collectively tank the market and drive prices through the floor. But people lack the motivation, hopefulness, and/or ambition to try such a hilariously easy manuver. If someone can't go two weeks without eating an egg, I would be surprised to learn that they know how to tie their shoes.

That's more than a little hopelessly idealistic. Getting the entire country to agree to do anything is pretty much impossible, let alone something that will inconvenience them at all. On top of that, to pull off such a feat would require the plan to be very heavily publicized, in which case those selling eggs would notice what was going on and just jack the prices back up after normal consumption resumed.

I'm also getting the impression that you think it's just a matter of people choosing to not have a couple eggs for breakfast, which grossly underestimates the culinary significance of eggs. To stop using eggs altogether would require pretty much every single non-vegan bakery to close, as well as every breakfast-focused restaurant (most of them have options other than serving eggs directly, but pancakes, waffles, crepes, and french toast all require eggs, and cutting those out as well would leave a pretty sparse menu). Eggs are incredibly versatile as an ingredient, offering many valuable physical properties that can be difficult and expensive to replicate (and, again, the degree to which such a boycott would be publicized would likely result in short-term price increases for those substitutes to capitalize on the spike in demand).