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.

at alpine

TSC, exactly!

I buy free range eggs and happy, corn fed chickens. They are more expensive but the taste and quality is better.

AUBU? I think so, but only in the sense that it's not worth getting angry about other people choosing to buy eggs from battery reared hens.

You could focus your anger into campaigning to make farming methods more humane.

bizbee30 ....Yes i do buy free range chicken also,but as i have said ,my family do not eat much meat so I can afford it,but even if we couldn't,my family would go without..and have beans on toast,or baked potato etc

HipHopopotomus ....I do not actually say anything to the people I notice who have not chosen free range,so maybe angry is not the right word.... but inside I do feel surely an extra £1 is worth paying.Really did not mean to offend people who do not.

I wonder how many of the people who do not choose free range smoke or have takeaways every week ,sky, etc ....Surely if you had any consideration for animal welfare you could cut back elsewhere ? Some of you clearly do not care and that is what I have a problem with.

OP what business is it of yours what someone else does with their money? It is entirely up to individuals to decide what their priorities are, and suggesting people shouldn't smoke, have sky etc is patronising and arrogant. It is more important for me to have internet that buy free range eggs, so what?

[sigh] whose turn is it now?

no, I don't smoke. There is booze in the house leftover from richer times, but it was never bought regularly and certainly hasn't gone anywhere near my shopping basket this round of being broke. Neither are we eating takeaway of any kind.

My make our own bread and pizza.

Is that good enough?

Am I worthy poor yet?

Can´t get "battery eggs" here (Germany) & haven´t been able to for a whole.

I had no idea that you still could.

Only free range or barned.

Doesn´t it also stop next year in UK?

Or does the size of cage have to change?

(Sorry if mentioned, not read all 23 pages=

Some of the posters on here sound like Marie fucking Antoinette. "Let them eat lentils."

You can't make people care, ohnoudidnt. And I think that the more you try and force people the more entrenched and pissed off they become. The industry is changing, and people are becoming more aware of where their food comes from. I think supermarkets have sanitised food to the point that we don't even think about the conditions it was made in (speaking for myself there obviously. I was about 8 before I realised that meat was actually an animal. I might have been dense). As more people do become aware, and start questioning various practices, it becomes financially prudent for the big guns to change things. It is incredibly hard to avoid all egg products, as they are included in many, many foods. I keep my own hens so don't buy eggs, but I still probably unwittingly pick up a packet of biscuits or a sauce that contains battery eggs.

diddl, they are trying to improve conditions but are finding quite a lot of resistance. Hopefully the EU ruling will go towards better welfare, but it's not a done deal yet.

And to all those suggesting cutting the internet - personally, having the net saves me a damn site more than it costs! Shopping around for food, baby stuff, utilities, online only utility tariffs.......

millie30.... This is a chat forum...although i suppose it is none of my business .You obviously fall in to the minority group that don't give a shit.Just wondered if others that don not buy free range due to money would consider giving something else up.

So if you buy internet to save you money you can't use it for anything else ever?!

No I didn't mean that - I just meant that it's a silly argument as the internet pays for itself IMO. Telling people that if they're poor they should get rid if the internet may well increase their bills.

Yes I know it's a chat forum. That's why I was given my opinion on your comment. And why would you assume that I don't give a shit? I give a shit about lots of things, I don't drive a car or go on planes so I have a pretty low carbon footprint, I buy most of my clothes from charity shops, I do volunteering. Just because people have different priorities to you on what they find acceptable or important it doesn't mean that they don't care about things.

It is a chat forum and yes it is none of your business but I do like a good dicussion.

And for the record I buy cheap eggs as I dont care.

My friend had chickens and I cannot really tell the difference in taste but the colour is different.

I have cut the internet. I cut off my landline and broadband, and now have a dongle and use the mobile network, in a good deal with my mobile phone company. I have a standing charge of £15 per month, plus a bit extra on calls/data. Internet access is actually quite cheap, and it saves on having to buy stuff locally in the shops, which is prohibitively expensive, I can also do internet banking and a whole load of other stuff that without the internet and working all day would be very difficult to do.

I suppose I should have managed without a phone altogether, be incommunicado and also give up my OU degree as well (for which internet access is obligatory), and my only opportunity of one day getting a better job.

I don't subscribe to sky and I don't have a plasma telly either, BTW.

If someone doesn't have the money for FR eggs then no problem. You've still got to eat haven't you. Better to use normal eggs in home made cooking than eat crap.

However I would jolly well judge someone who had a life of foreign holidays, nice house, decent lifestyle who refused to by free range eggs.

FWIW I can just about afford to buy FR eggs (although have stopped buying organic milk and butter ) and only buy organic meat, at £7 a chicken we get one a month.

Diddl - afaik, there will still be cages, but they will be enriched cages - each hen will have more space to move around, will be able to perch, and there will be chickeny toys so bullying is less of an issue.

To whoever suggested that the usedtoworkinachickenfarm poster goes to trading standards - it would be nigh on impossible to prove that this was going on, short of secret filming. And tbh, if someone was going to do that, they would be better filming the conditions that free range hens are kept in, and exposing that particular side of the trade.

Do you know what? Everyone should stop justifying where they spend their money. No one is on trial here. From an ethical perspective, I'd rather everyone bought high welfare eggs/meat, but if you can't, you can't. I'm not going to stand anyone in front of a jury of pissed off hens and decree eye pecking season. I dislike seeing peoples finances pored over and commented on, because I know it would upset the fuck out of me.

Now, where is Hully and her glittery love spreading?

We're still locked into a contract with BT. Can't get out of it now. When it ends, we'll go to Virgin if they can offer a better deal because there are only two providers out here.

I'll eat all the non-free-range food in the world before we cut off our phone and net. They are vital out here where services are very limited, and we have PAYG mobiles that don't always have credit (I haven't had credit in months on mine).

I really don't give a shit if that offends people who think the low-income people should wear hair shirts and eat mung beans and freeze in the dark to appease principles that aren't theirs.

YANBU.

Restaurants should get a tick for using only free range eggs. Can someone organise a society to check this please. In the absence of that...we should all ask restaurants before eating there whether they use free range eggs.

I thought battery hens eggs had been banned, have they not?