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So where do we buy our eggs now?
Did anyone see the video of the happy egg farms?
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(<( I think John’s brain must be fried because that post is a little scrambled. 😀
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Sorry
A little vague
first read: http://www.noblefoods.co.uk
thenhttp://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2010/10/0 … g-line.htm
Hope you get the links
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It’s farming, simple as.
If people want better standards, force the big supermarkets to pay the farmer more instead of lining their shareholders pockets, Therfore less pressure to make ends meet so better welfare standards, simple economics.
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quote Ian Johnston:It’s farming, simple as.If people want better standards, force the big supermarkets to pay the farmer more instead of lining their shareholders pockets, Therfore less pressure to make ends meet so better welfare standards, simple economics.
In this case Ian, the supermarkets were paying more for the eggs, but the supplier appears to be at fault?
When Jamie Oliver (I think) exposed how cheep (scuse the pun)chicken was produced, the supermaekets all restocked with free range at much higher prices. but about a week later their shelves were still full of unsold stock, the crux of the matter is the average family does not want to pay £15 for a chicken (that is the realistic cost of a proper bird)We all have a choice, we dont have to buy the products from the supermarkets, but most of us do anyway!
Peter
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It is a difficult one but it true that free range chickens are very expensive and you have to make a difficult choice when buying
I think where most are concerned though is that they are willing to pay more for what they have been told are free range eggs by hens who are ‘happy’
when they are probably no better of than battery -
I overheard this conversation in a cafe that was about to close many years ago,
Woman "do you have any sandwiches left"
" yes but only tongue and egg"
Woman " that’s disgusting, I could never eat anything that came from an animals mouth, I’ll take the egg"
Peter -
😀 😀
Had to think about that one -
i get my eggs from my mum! she has about 20 laying hens and they are extremely happy! the eggs have a slightly different flavout at the mo as the hens are busy mopping up all the windfall apples what weren’t picked,
true free range eggs are far superior in taste than anything you’ll ever buy in any shop, like any living thing, a wide and varied diet is key to a top end product, we kept a few chickens ourselves until earlier this year, as with mums they had access to all the scraps / compost heap etc. egg shells always seem a bit thin to me -perhaps os farmed [of any kind] hens are fed more grit- but, the eggs themselves are second to none, colour is bright yellow, make an omlette and it is almost sunflower yellow, use shop eggs and whoa, what a disappointment!
Mother occasionally buys fertilized eggs too, raising the hens for laying and the boys for the pot, last chickens we did were enormous, still over 11lb when prepared for the oven! two breasts fed 6 of us very well, the remaining made one family curry the next night and a sweet and sour the night after that!
having had our own, i now prefer to go without eggs at all than buy the shop eggs if mum is short!
my biggest gripe with chicken, especially when buying breast, is the fact they still pump it full of crap and water, it makes the job of cooking it a pain as all the water is released anyways, often mucking up the mixture… STOP IT!
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Sounds like a proper Indian curry 😀
I think they messed about with our food so much it ain’t what its supposed to be!
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quote Harry Cleary:(<( I think John's brain must be fried because that post is a little scrambled. 😀grooooooooaaaannnn Harry
blimy…ive been buying those happy bleedin eggs…im off to the farmers market…!!
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quote Cheryl Smith:grooooooooaaaannnn Harry
😳 😳 I thought I’d gotten away with that one!
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No you didn’t Harry ‘ol soldier
Comedians shell out a fortune for yokes like that only to have them poached by others
om e letting that go though
Just don’t crack any more
dozen get worse than this I promise
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I’m with Hugh. My mums got ‘chooktopia’ in her back yard and the eggs are fantastic. The wife still buys them if mums are off the lay, but our free range in the supermarket are not a lot more expensive than the caged ones. If we buy them, we buy the free range.
That said, we usually get a dozen a week off mum, after she keeps what she needs.
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