I generally buy free range, but just bought a box of 6 of those 'Big & Fresh' eggs from tesco in a yellow and white box. You've no doubt seen the ones I mean. They're from caged hens. Does this make me a very bad person?
Do you buy caged or free range?
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Free range and 95% of the time http://www.clarencecourt.co.uk/our-farms/
Caged should just be banned, even if we buy decent free range eggs, and free range doesn't guaranteed decent life anyway, some are basically caged anyway. When we buy meat or pre made products, it's even harder to avoid and choose decent standard.
Caged should just be banned, even if we buy decent free range eggs, and free range doesn't guaranteed decent life anyway, some are basically caged anyway. When we buy meat or pre made products, it's even harder to avoid and choose decent standard.
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Same here. they usually have the longest BBE dates on in my local sainsburys compared to the other brands
My father in law is a chicken farmer, producing free-range eggs, so we get ours from him. Wouldn't buy battery, even though chickens are both very hardy and very stupid - it's just not pleasant.
As an aside, double-yolk eggs are an awful lot more common than you might think. Supermarket eggs are picked by size to be pretty uniform, which rules out most doubles, since they tend to be noticeably bigger.
As an aside, double-yolk eggs are an awful lot more common than you might think. Supermarket eggs are picked by size to be pretty uniform, which rules out most doubles, since they tend to be noticeably bigger.
When I was a student, I got whatever I can afford to live within my means - which means I end up with plenty of battery eggs. Since I can afford "Free Range" eggs now, I get them unless there's no other choice.
There's a definite difference in quality.
My next goal is to own my own chicken and have proper eggs from them fresh. Still awhile away yet, need bigger garden space.
There's a definite difference in quality.
My next goal is to own my own chicken and have proper eggs from them fresh. Still awhile away yet, need bigger garden space.
Cage free however isn't always what it seems.
www.care2.com/causes/what-does-free...4411037823702&action=expand_widget&id=0&data=
www.care2.com/causes/what-does-free...4411037823702&action=expand_widget&id=0&data=
Also, are we not all being somewhat hypocritical. Of course it's much better to have happier hens. Yet our moral compasses clearly don't extend to thinking about what we're doing when eating eggs. We're still stealing and eating the hen's offspring.
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Free range as said is a bit of a BS term, as the conditions in general are still shocking.
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Not every egg is fertilized - so it's more like eating a period.
Cheese isn't much better - leave cow juice in a bucket for a month.. mmm tasty.
That's an American farm. USA, as the article says, doesn't have any legal backing to the term "free range". In the UK we do.
My experience is limited to my father-in-law's farm, and one or two other local producers, but the conditions are not even close to comparable to battery farming.
Here's a couple of pics I took on my phone last year. Shortly after a summer storm, so not many of the chickens have come out (they go inside to get out of the rain);
Basic biology fail. There're no cockerels, hence no offspring.
Always free range, for the sake of 20p difference it's totally worth it. However we bought some Burford Brown's on the last shop and I'd forgotten how good they were. They're a world apart from 'normal' free range eggs. I shall ensure we get those as standard going forward 
