[leetcrew]

1. how? healthy chickens lay an egg every 1-2 days. a small number of chickens produce more than enough for an entire household. everyone I know who keeps chickens gives most of the eggs away.

2. chickens are the ultimate garbage disposal. you can feed them any excess food from your household and they turn it into fresh eggs.

3. see 1. the volume of eggs gets out of control fast, but not quite on the scale that it’s viable for random people to build an FDA compliant business out of it. it’s hard to get rid of all of them, even for free.

[whimsicalism]

1 -> Sure, but are they declining the omelette when they're out for brunch?

2 -> I think the subsidy point still stands.

3 -> Totally agreed but I think your point about giving away eggs applies just as much, any eggs you eat rather than give away are just going to be an additional egg from the chicken CAFOs or at best case a fractional additional egg from the CAFOs.

But I certainly agree that this is among the instances where the case is weaker.