Aibu to be angry with people who do not buy free range eggs?

[ohnoudidnt]

I know that they cost more, but surely it is worth the extra to know the bird has had a better standard of living.

buttonmooncup yes, I do.

I've certainly had very little money at times, working in shops for £5 per hour and so on, but I didn't have this "poor me" attitude a lot of people seem to have. And I stopped eating meat for ethical reasons while still a student.

the lunatics are starting to take over the asylum . . .

mollyt - funnily enough I couldn't give a fuck who I sound like.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with a vegan or vegetarian diet, I have come on threads on MN and defended it many times.

But it IS dangerous to suddenly switch diets. I'm sorry if that fact doesn't fit in with your world view, but making yourself very ill isn't going to help anyone struggling with money.

Here's your halo, Marianne.

See your argument will fall on deaf ears here youcan.

I agree with you on animal cruelty and I also agree that meat is a luxury BUT instead of buying a cheap chicken I will buy a £4 piece of belly pork from our farm shop.

Its local meat which has been slaughtered locally,it's a cheap meal and it's nutritious (with lots of veg) and the pig has lived it's life as it should do,outside.

I'll pass on the waffles ta.

Good for you Jareth lets hope that everyone on here who is talking down to people who doesn't buy free range eggs does the same.

scottishmummy - your rather thick'no-nonsense' attitude is what I find galling. Caring about animals isn't dripping sentimentality - it's basic humanity to not like it when other living beings are treated with great cruelty. Sad for you that you see it that way.

:o @ Thingumy.

Will you please read my posts and not just assume that I am casually chucking meat down my family's throats because I don't know anything.

DD has dropped 25 centiles in weight, I have fallen off the bottom of the bmi scale, six foot DH weighs nine stone.

We really need protein not fucking processed carbs.

molly, I have a severe skeletal disorder that is caused by iron and calcium deficiency, not to mention eating disorders. a change to my diet can either senfd me spiralling again, or reduce my bone density even further. it is dangerous to just say "try a vegan diet" a lot of people have problems with a vegan diet. I wouldnt eat enough on it. I need regular protein, iron, calcium I dont believe that children should have a vegan diet. but, unlike some on here, I wouldnt preach to others about how unfair and destructive such a diet is on their family.

and youcan, you are very wrong. you have decided that you are right. everyone should live by the standards that you have set and if they dont they are cruel animal haters. you have preached to "put back the nuggets" ffs. you have made sweeping assumptions based on your own sanctimonious stance. many have said that if they could afford to, they would. you have not accepted that, "so go vegan" was the answer. who is narrow-minded?

I haven't read the whole thread, but wanted to point out that so called free range chickens often have a worse life than their battery sisters.
Battery hens are in cages and have very little room, but because free rangers have the great outdoors, more are crammed together in barns. Dominant hens guard the popholes, so the vast majority live their lives in dark stinking barns, tripping over (and quite often eating) dead hens.
If you've ever driven past a free range farm, you can see maybe a hundred hens scratching outside, sunning themselves. But open the doors, and you would be shocked.
Obviously not all free range farms are like this, but most are.
I've rehomed ex-batts and ex freerangers. They are all in various states of baldness, not because of cruelty but because they have moulted (which chickens do most years, and stop laying for a little
while, so this is the point when they are disposed of). This happens to battery and free range hens.
In freerange egg farms, life is better for a tiny amount of chickens, but far worse for the majority, so maybe not the best subject to get judgmental about.

Going to bed now, but may think of more to rant about later!

Certain Vegans on here give all Vegetatians and Vegans a bad name. I'm fed up of people thinking they are better than everyone else because they don't eat meat! . What about Soya plantations. ....they do tons of damage...so get off your high horse! (Oh wait...sorry...as a true vegan you won't believe in animals as pets...

I like waffles. But they have to be just this side of burnt. Soggy waffles are vile.

missed your reply further up marrianne this thread is moving so quickly.
Saying life is too short to chop and onion is not the same as saying chopping and onion is difficult.

Do you see?

youcan where is the primary protein in that list of meal options you posted? My sister was a vegan (now vegetarian) and she always replaced meat in dishes with soya or lentils/pulses.

youcangetpregnantstandingup Fri 08-Apr-11 22:02:34
It's you who has a narrow view of the world chocolate if you can't care about anyone or anything else but your own family and can't/won't put more imagination into feeding them better.

and once again... fuck off.

worraliberty Have you been sniffing glue?

At what point did I say I disagree with people eating meet ?
I think it should be done knowing that the animal has had the best possible life and then transported and slaughtered correctly.I am really happy with the replies and glad to see you are in the minority.

Back to the thread.

Not everyone who buys FR eggs is a smug, well off, preachy loon.

Just thought I would make that clear.

Carry on.

i prioritse human well being mental/physical/nutritional before i start weeping about henny penny ending up on someone dinner plate

dripping sentimentality is the very kind of hand wringing you are doing.

Besides the animal cruelty argument, which is very important to me personally but less so to others, there are many many ways of getting enough protein for your children than having chicken and eggs. There are many cuts of beef, pork and lamb that are very cheap and nutritious and can be bought in the supermarket or the butchers. That's the meat that we buy.

LaWeasel - setting fire to your hair is dangerous, driving the wrong way up the motor way is dangerous, injecting heroin in to your eyeballs is dangerous.

changing to a meat free diet is not really is it.go on live a little.
anyway i'm off for a doner then bed.xx

MrsDeVere

I like mini waffles.

Much cuter. They go further too. Easy for my chavvy baby to stuff in his big fat face too.

No, I don't accept that going vegan or vegetarian is a financial question, chocolate, I know from my own experience that it isn't.

The meat industry have convinced us all that we need more protein than we actually do, for example. An adult woman needs 46grams per day, all of which can be easily got from non meat products.

Ruby Ted, your point about soya? That soya is grown, not for the benefit of us vegans, but as feed for the meat industry.