To be pissed off over eggs?

[cricketmum84]

Ok I know this is totally a first world problem but I'm feeling rather pissed off today so this could be the last straw lol!

My DH went to the supermarket this morning and I had put "free range eggs" on the list. I'm a vegetarian, almost vegan but not quite given up cheese yet. I'm quite hot on animal welfare.

He came back from the shops with eggs from caged hens. Doesn't see anything wrong with this at all and says because I don't eat eggs I don't get a say. I say that I don't want eggs from caged hens in my house and I don't want my family contributing to the survival of that industry.

Am I just being a moody cow today or do I have a point??

@sweetsandcrisps I should probably clarify; big bee farms: great. But honey needs to be gathered (in my opinion, which in the grand scheme matters little I suppose) by skilled personnel with the correct qualifications and the correct equipment. Plus as I said in my post above; many benefits are to be gained by eating locally produced honey

@ziggiestardust I love your way of thinking. It's exactly how I feel - if everyone could just contribute in some way, it adds up to a massive overall impact.

Op, I think you've got a hard time on here. I would never knowingly buy eggs from caged hens.

OP posts “I asked my husband to do X and he ignored me, and then he was rude and dismissive. AIBU to be peeved?”
Posters respond: “you are a shit person because you eat cheese”.

OP, your husband was really rude about the eggs, and he should apologise. He’s being really disrespectful. It’s a pretty simple thing to buy free range and he just didn’t care. I’d be really cross with my dh if he did that, and let him know in no uncertain terms.
For all the vegan warriors posting here, it’s possible for people to have concerns about animal welfare and still eat bacon. Buying free range eggs is a way of exercising one of the few controls we have over the market. You never saw free range eggs a few years ago, now you hardly see caged eggs. That’s because the people who eat eggs were influenced by information campaigns. Is it perfect? No. Is it better? Yes.
What a lot of nasty judgemental holier-than-thou posturing there is on this thread.
I feel the time for my thread on cheese is coming nearer.

"They were white shelled with pale yellow yolks."

Probably because they were laid by a breed that produces white-shelled eggs. The colour of the eggshell generally has precious little to do with the feed a hen gets.

www.backyardchickens.com/articles/egg-color-chart-find-out-what-egg-color-your-breed-lays.48143/

"Free range" is a con trick played to get people to pay more for eggs from hens whose welfare conditions may be no better than any other commercial organisation's hens' are. Unless you keep the hens yourself or know the person who does, "free-range" just means "a different sort of factory" in a lot of cases. The hens may not have had their beaks trimmed, but "free range" does not guarantee this because it is not a requirement for that label.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/30/free-range-eggs-con-ethical

learieonthewildmoor perfectly put!

Quite hot on animal welfare? Hahaha!

Yeah right @cricketmum84

@learieonthewildmoor exactly what I wanted to put but much better written :)

Maybe free range/ organic etc is too expensive for him?

YABU. DH is an adult, if he goes shopping and he wants to buy eggs that is his choice, same as it is his choice to buy meat, it would be different if you had been planning to eat the eggs.

I buy shampoo bars because of reducing plastic waste and animal testing, I can't insist DH stops buying the shampoo he likes because that would be really controlling.

@sadotter can I ask you which shampoo bars you use that work for you?

@imonlyatoyspider joint finances and joint account. I earn double his salary but everything goes into one account and we run the house from that. No his and hers finances here, we definitely had enough in the bank for the eggs I specified on the list,

@cricketmum84 oh how strange. Maybe he is just a bit of a tight arse?

Haha @imonlyatoyspider you may have just hit the nail on the head!! Typical Yorkshire man! His reasoning was those eggs were cheaper:

My friend’s dad is a farmer and he occasionally helps out a woman with hens. He explained to me what free range actually means in reality and i was so shocked i have not bought eggs from the supermarkets since. I just buy from a local farm.

If the eggs are for him, and he's buying them, I'd tell you to piss off too.

Having did that, I buy free range organic, as I care about welfare, and I think they taste better. That's just my opinion though.

@cricketmum84 umm yes I have known a few Yorkshire men in my time. One would not pay £6 to get his hair cut. Dad cut it instead 😂

You should be buying organic if you can..
Where we live, we go once a week to a little farm and DH, the children and I have to hunt for the eggs! Those are true free range roaming chickens..they only go into their house at nighttime. They all lay eggs in different places all around his farm! My DS loves hunting for the eggs..depending on where you live, it might not be an option to you (we are lucky like that) but there are very reputable farm shops all over the country.
You need to read more into being a vegan. It's still extremely bad for the environment!

You need to read more into being a vegan. It's still extremely bad for the environment!

agree with this, there is a scary amount of vegan propaganda out there relating to nutrition (such as bollocks like eggs are unhealthy etc) and environmental issues. Be careful about were you get your facts and information from. Even though I’m veggie I personally stay away from anything with a vegan/veggie agenda because they cherry pick from study’s to push their agendas and can be completely wrong. I just try to look for facts instead x

We used to get eggs from a farm when I was a child.

That was how I found out that you can't have a bad egg and "parts of it are excellent". Apparently it came from a hen that was better than the others at hiding her eggs, and by the time we found it that egg was well past its use-by date!

Is it better?
Only marginally. It’s like the difference between being asked whether you want to be kicked in the face 3 times or just the 2?

The real difference is that it makes people feel better.

It's funny that my OP was basically my DH didn't follow the list with some additional background info on why I had specified free range eggs and it's turned into a cricketmum bashing over not being vegan enough.
Because that’s the crux of the problem. You can’t claim this is oh so important to you and he should do it, when you continue to do stuff which is also against what’s oh so important to you.

Yabbers it’s so much better! I rescue chickens from battery, barn and free range. The free range chickens are healthy and fully feathered. The barn chickens fully feathered but a bit pale and the battery chickens were just traumatised poor things with no feathers and skin burns from the urine/faeces they were made to stand in. A huge difference!!!!

@imonlyatoyspider haha that sounds familiar 😂

@Cricketmum84 we are talking about eggs here 😂😂 red flags indeed!!!

Yes. Indeed. Yet here we are, on your very own thread on AIBU. Overreaction, much?

YABU, you're not eating them, the "I don't want them in mu house" misses the point that it's his house too. Why do you get to impose your views on him, he isn't forcing you to eat them is he?

You are definitely right!! I'm vegetarian and would not allow caged eggs in my home, even when I see people reaching for them in the supermarket it makes me sad.