To think that anyone who buys battery eggs rather than free range is cruel?

[Lovesdogsandcats]

Follow on from the free range meat thread..
Is there anyone on here who buys eggs that are not free range?

A lush ommelette with ham and melted cheese, smothered in VALUE tomatoe sauce.

Mrs mcclusky, I got this recipe and made it a while back and it was absolutely gorgeous!
My meat loving ds wolfed it!

Lockets its because of the cruelty aspect.
Its a way of life now to read an ingredients list.

Lovesdogsandcats why I can eat them here if I want

rare steak please

fair play looks pretty good
but then i will eat anyhting!

If I served that shepherd's pie to my DH after he had been at work all day he'd ask where the main course was.

Goober you are so right

dumb, dumb and dumber tonight.

Actually I do buy free range because I want the better quality (I don't have eggs very often anyway) but if battery eggs were better I'd buy those.

If the chickens wanted better treatment they should have made the effort to invent humanwire before we invented chickenwire.

Yes lockets!

and just how long do you need to soak the beans for? it's fine if you are super organised etc, but what about those days when everything goes wrong and you have 5 minutes to get a meal together?

I think I'll make that shepherd's pie soon. I love pulses and it sounds much nicer than one made with quorn.

dumb, dumb and dumber tonight- what the hell does that mean

different ID - i imagine you could use tinned! I use tinned chickpeas all the time

But we want food not cardboard to eat!
I'm off, have seen enough.

What's wrong with pulses and legumes Goober?

Not necessarily cruel, but definitely condoning unnecessary cruelty.

FR eggs aren't that expensive, & they've come down massively in price (relative to caged hen eggs) because they are in wider demand.

Supermarkets use pretty sophisticated price targetting. If we tell them we want FR, FR will get cheaper still. If we carry on buying '4 hens to an A4 sized cage', they'll carry on charging a premium for the ethical few who do insist on FR. It's basic economics - if you care AT ALL, vote with your purchasing power & watch that premium fall.

if anyone is thinking of doing that recipe, I modified it slightly by making up veg stock with the water, and adding some tomato puree...was yum

I'll be trying it Lovecats so I'll make it that way thankyou.