Why should you pay more for eggs?

Why should you pay more for eggs?

Evans response-
The reasons are clear, first off the farmers need to take care of the birds. This increases costs above the standard 1.50 a dozen farm fresh eggs rule. We are not in the 1960 or 1970's and need to pay more to the farmers who spend so much time trying to feed people. If the costs continue the same and Corn and cheap feed continues to be feed to the animals the changes will be seen. The damage is being done to grow large amounts of Corn and Soy for the feed, the fish meal is not safe finding alternatives is growing local Soy for the feed, other crops like chickweed, amaranth, Quinoa, rotating the grazing pattens, all kinds off options are out there just becoming aware that it takes more than just CHEAP feed to give these domesticated birds a healthy humane happy life.
Rachel-
at 1.50/doz farmers cannot afford to cover their costs let alone get paid for their time and level of care. With these prices to compete with its no wonder small farmers convert to larger caged systems. They cannot afford preditor control on that many free-ranged chickens so they choose breeds that lay eggs even when confined, even tourtured. For 1.50 a dozen what could the chicken have been fed? Other subsidized crops like corn and soy which are intensively sprayed with chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides in their horizon spanning monocropped fields. As Joel Salatin says "chemical agriculture is like a drug trip, every year it takes more to get the same kick." and all these pollutants end up in our water.