The Change Mariner

Egg Prices and Consumption Climb

KAIT (Arkansas):

Egg prices are up, way up. In fact, the price of eggs jumped up another nickle a dozen this week, even though as Americans, we are eating more eggs than ever before.

According to the United Egg Producers, we will eat nearly 255 eggs per person this year and that's 7 more eggs than five years ago. U.E.P. predicts we'll eat more than 70 billion eggs in 2003.

The egg producers are blaming this year's lust for the yolk on the low carb, all protein, Atkins Diet.

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