We get our eggs from about 150 yards away now, but when I did by eggs in the supermarket I did always check them top and bottom after being burned before.
Eggs,
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I only buy eggs from one or other of three smallholders / farmers in our village. But that gives me access to hens eggs from bantams up to large brown eggs, duck and turkey eggs. All of them freshly laid and cheap compared to the supermarkets. Food miles of between 400 and 1000 yards. Long may it continue!
Not necessarily. When we had hens much of their food was bought in and that had to be grown, moved to be milled, moved to be sold and I had to make regular trips to buy it - so food miles could well be more than a battery farm egg.
When we get more hens then along with what they forage around our place I'd like to grow more food for them.
The main thing about buying locally is you can hopefully see how they are looked after and see the impact they have of the surroundings. Large scale chicken farming and egg production does seem to lead to a lot of polution.
I’m lucky. For two of the three suppliers, I know what their birds eat, how they live, and how much forage they get, so I can be very confident as to what is likely to be in the eggs. They are from small flocks (<20 birds) as well, so I’m happy that they’re happy
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I've always checked them: every egg, every time. I think that or must take me all of eight seconds to check six eggs.
Except for those that I buy at the market, when the lady takes them from a tray and checks them and she puts them into the boxes that I've brought with me. Mmm
All the emojis below the first two sections do it, it never got fixed.
This is BIG news ! There is a huge difference between white eggs and brown eggs !
White eggs are white.
Brown eggs are brown.
If it was an honest world (BIG 'If' ). I think that the statement from Sainsburys would have probably read more along the lines of ..
"We have signed a lucrative deal with a couple of egg suppliers who can only supply us with white eggs. They're probably going to be a bit smaller, and will be no better in quality than any other egg. In no way, shape, or form will our buying these eggs make any difference to the real world, but they're cheaper for us to purchase than the eggs we used to sell. We will, of course, have to maintain standards somehow so we will think up some eco-twaddle and pseudo science to justify the move, and will be charging you all the same or more for these smaller white eggs "
It's the usual BS spouted by those who want to relieve you of your hard-earned. You can pretty much guarantee these days that if any business is telling you that 'X' is better than 'Y' it's because you buying 'X' is better for them than you buying 'Y'. It has nothing to do with your wellbeing or benefit.
"Go to work on an egg! " They said.
"Eggs are full of salmonella" They said.
etc etc.
Act like a grown-up and do your own thinking is what I say.
White eggs are white.
Brown eggs are brown.
If it was an honest world (BIG 'If' ). I think that the statement from Sainsburys would have probably read more along the lines of ..
"We have signed a lucrative deal with a couple of egg suppliers who can only supply us with white eggs. They're probably going to be a bit smaller, and will be no better in quality than any other egg. In no way, shape, or form will our buying these eggs make any difference to the real world, but they're cheaper for us to purchase than the eggs we used to sell. We will, of course, have to maintain standards somehow so we will think up some eco-twaddle and pseudo science to justify the move, and will be charging you all the same or more for these smaller white eggs "
It's the usual BS spouted by those who want to relieve you of your hard-earned. You can pretty much guarantee these days that if any business is telling you that 'X' is better than 'Y' it's because you buying 'X' is better for them than you buying 'Y'. It has nothing to do with your wellbeing or benefit.
"Go to work on an egg! " They said.
"Eggs are full of salmonella" They said.
etc etc.
Act like a grown-up and do your own thinking is what I say.
Just had a thought,..I wonder if they will only do white easter eggs next year?
Saves on importing the cocoa beans to make brown chocolate, think of all the net zero points they can chalk up then.
Saves on importing the cocoa beans to make brown chocolate, think of all the net zero points they can chalk up then.
Spot on.
This whole "net zero" thing is a con as it ignores the wider issue i.e. that it's the global pollution load, and so it offshores emissions and is set up so the elite can continue to consume and pollute whilst others pay the price whether through loss of jobs in UK or pollution in other countries.
For example. They would rather see the "plebs" struggle with affording transport by making cars more costly through the bonkers EV compulsion than do genuinely useful things like reopening railways, improving buses and encouraging localism. Or they assume the public transport in London is representative of public transport outside London......
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I’ve read that the white egg laying hens have a longer productive lifespan and are less aggressive.
I’ve rehomed quite a few ex commercial layers over the years. They turn up in a bit of a state and they can be a little spicy when added to my mixed flock.
To me white eggs have the aesthetic of ‘American’ food, so I subconsciously (and wrongly) I believe brown eggs to be better nutritionally. But if switching means there are less retired hens to find homes for and they’re living more harmoniously that’s a big positive for me.
I’ve rehomed quite a few ex commercial layers over the years. They turn up in a bit of a state and they can be a little spicy when added to my mixed flock.
To me white eggs have the aesthetic of ‘American’ food, so I subconsciously (and wrongly) I believe brown eggs to be better nutritionally. But if switching means there are less retired hens to find homes for and they’re living more harmoniously that’s a big positive for me.
How many years has commercial egg production been happening? If this spin is true, the change would have been made years ago.
I don't believe a word of it
I'm sure many will fall for the "ecco reasons" though and believe it. I'm a rural lass, I'm not so easily fooled.
Commercial egg production, most of which is cage or supposed barn is a disgusting business. Profit comes well before hen welfare and any environmental concerns are brushed away by large commercial producers. Not at all surprised that changes are not made unless forced on them.
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