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Billionaire Egg Baron Pays Contract Farmers Just 26 Cents per Dozen (farmaction.us)
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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 37 points 5 months ago

The secret ingredient is exploitation.

[–] confusedwiseman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Per the article, the family farmers got a 1.25c per dozen increase 6 years ago.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

To help clarify, just because of units and decimals... That is a $0.0125 increase per dozen 6 years ago to the current rate of $0.2675 per dozen.