You're gonna find beans, soy and rice in a food desert a lot easier than eggs. The food desert I've lived in had at least two of the three in almost every bodega.

Aggravated Hank Hill voice: "Eggs being considered vegetarian doesn't make eggs better, it just makes vegetarianism worse!"

US animal ag industry is battling cross-species avian flu right now in an attempt to delay it's jump to the human population. When one chicken or pig gets sick it means you need to kill and destroy every single one of them. Hundreds of thousands of chickens get deleted every time. Usually doesn't make the national news, and there are for sure political/economic factors at play too, but disease is absolutely influencing poultry prices.

I'm vegan and agree with your take here. We're all in the same big stupid boat together.

OP wants to claim both compassion and nihilism.

Yes, this is the grim reality of the issue. We'll make animal ag even more inhumane and dangerous to humanity before we try moving to something more sustainable. Only catastrophe will force a switch.

Not so much fed with produce, but fed with alfalfa and soy feedstock grown on vast amounts of arable land that could and should be used to grow produce instead, for sure.

Which ones? I've yet to encounter a recipe with eggs where I couldn't satisfyingly sub in tofu, mung bean liquid (Such as Just Egg) or starch+tapioca replacer (Such as this) depending on the egg preparation.

Tofu is good for scrambles.
Mung bean is good for frying.
Stratch+tapioca is for baking.

I used to get Bob's Red Mill brand TVP from Safeway but it disappeared from their shelves a few months ago (Tried multiple locations) and hasn't cone back. Considering that it's basically just soy and pulses, and also that Safeway still carries the rest of the Bob's Red Mill lineup, it does feel suspiciously intentional.

It is our business though, because when all those omnis come down with the latest zoonotic bird flu they endanger the entire population. And if the population did actually opt for tofu scrambles you just know that the industry would jack up the price of our cheap tofu.

Not to even mention, if you're vegan then factory farming is always your business, ideologically speaking.