The US isn’t the egg devouring machine it once was. Not on a per capita basis, anyway.
In 2013, the average American ate less than one egg per day (roughly .68), according to unreleased data from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Back in 1945, at the peak of American egg consumption, the average American cracked open well over one full egg per day (1.15 to be precise). That’s almost 70% more than today.
So what’s going on?
They’re more eggspensive…
For one, eggs, while still pretty cheap, have been getting pricier. “Eggs are a fairly price-sensitive foodstuff,” David Harvey, an agricultural economist at the USDA, told Quartz. “Egg consumption is affected not only by the price of eggs, which has been rising, but also the price of competing protein products, like meat, which have been falling.”
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