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.

I don't buy most of the brands that do contain palm oil but I do wash with persil so I fail.

This thread is depriving me of sleep.

No I mean Tofu. If we stopped producing soya to feed meat all the meat eaters would need to eat something else... and they need to eat more soya than meat. Plus it needs to be shipped yadda yadda.

Susie - It is unhelpful.

Go back and read lissie's posts.

I've read her posts. I argue that a vegan diet is a healthy diet, which is true.

It's unhelpful to suggest that it's ok to eat battery-farmed eggs.

Trillian - eggs from the supermarket taste pretty much the same. Some freerange farms add corn to the feed to make the yolks yellower, and that makes people believe they taste better.
Truly freerange chickens (ie unlimited, unhindered access to space, grass, weeds, insects (and occasionally frogs and mice - bleurgh) produce eggs that really do taste better.

(As discovered in extensive taste tests, blindfolded and otherwise, in the faverolles household. Note to self: must get a life)

It is not healthy for EVERYONE.

It is also pretty to selective and unhelpful to suggest eating battery farm eggs is not okay, when as favarolles has told us free range eggs often come from worse conditions.

The amount of tofu that would need to be produced would not be anywhere near as harmful to the environment as meat production currently is. It can also be grown locally.

and tofu is not the only thing you need to eat to get protein.

Don't forget, when it comes to eggs, the male chicks are useless to egg farmers, as they cannot lay eggs, so they are gassed or tossed alive into giant industrial shredders.

I fed my chooks corn.

Funny how their skin was never yellow like the corn feed chickens from the supermarket .

and yes ick at chickens fighting over live creatures in their enclosures.

I near barfed at the mass chicken killing of a frog once.

They are unforgiving if anything small and living should enter their eyesight-it ends up dead and fought over.

supermarket regular < supermarket free range

Not necessarily.

It would be bad for our countryside to turn over all livestock fields to arable. It is not a casual choice whether to have arable/livestock on particular fields. A lot of our farmland would become unusable.

The mouse thing is revolting, isn't it favorelles? I've also found a frog with one leg slowly rotating on the lawn

Ok, this may come as little shock for all you know it alls about 'free range' eggs.

I worked at a local egg farm and packing factory. (not for long you understand for obvious reasons)

The eggs come into the packing station on large pallets, they are loaded onto a machine by a person, sent through a 'candeling' section to check for cracked eggs, blood spots etc again by a person (not a machine), they re then graded for size by the machine, have the lyon printed on them and put into the correct size boxes (that are fed in by hand to a machine), they then come out ready to be hand stamped with the date etc, they are then put on a belt to be boxed for the supermarket.

All the eggs came from the same caged farm, the boxes that they were packed in were the only thing to be changed. i.e. sometimes free range boxes, sometimes value boxes, sometimes branded boxes. All depending on where the order was for.

My point being you really have NO idea about what you're buying, your heads are just so far up you're own bottoms you think you can judge other people.

(and yes they do get inspected and there is always a 'standby' pallet of eggs ready to go on when the inspecter comes around)

We have a damp patch where frogs like to go, and the chooks all gather to find them. Makes tasty eggs though

The main point LaWeasel is that any major study done has found that the best thing anyone can do for the environment is to give up meat, thereby reducing their carbon footprint vastly.

thanks, workedinaneggfactory, I hope people read your post and actually rethink their choices - free range really is meaningless.

I had a blood bath in the coop one morning. Was convinced I'd be at least one hen down. They all sat there, looking at me with sinister stillness. No hens missing or injured. Just lots of blood

I'm sorry youcan but I just can't sit here and nod along and say oh yes I should give up meet because someone on the internet who doesn't know anything about farming on a world scale says so!

Some studies have shown that individuals would be better to give up meat. Some studies have shown that if the whole population was to give up meat and keep similar eating habits things would be worse.

I'm not sure, to start with, what you would expect to happen to all of this livestock that is suddenly not needed? Farmers certainly aren't going to keep feeding them out of the goodness of their hearts. And not many people have space for a rescue cow in their back garden...

Coincidentally, someone's just sent me this which may be of interest to those who care about the fact that male chicks are put into a grinder while they're still alive.

'My point being you really have NO idea about what you're buying, your heads are just so far up you're own bottoms you think you can judge other people'

If people are buying 'free range' and taking that for granted,as the label says so who is to fucking blame-the shark that you worked for maybe?

Have you reported your employer to trading standards?

Are there bottles of milk and piles of mail collecting at your neighbour's house chickens ?

Oh purlease, LaWeasel - not that old chestnut: what would happen to all the cows?

Of course meat eating isn't going to be stopped immediately. That situation would never happen.

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