I’ve stopped buying eggs now because free range are no longer available. The only eggs in shops are barn eggs. Am I wrong to think that barn eggs are all laid by chickens which have been reared in reprehensible conditions?
Then you have to think, 'when is a barn a factory' ?
Except from Matt J's next door neighbour.Can you spell out what you're saying here? I mean, as far as I know you can't get eggs reared like the pictures on that website suggest from anywhere in the UK.
Can you spell out what you're saying here? I mean, as far as I know you can't get eggs reared like the pictures on that website suggest from anywhere in the UK.
As others have said, 'free range' in most cases is similar to 'barn' but with access to the outside through flaps or openings in the barn. Due to bird flu, these openings have had to be closed, so the eggs no longer meet the formal definition of 'free range' and can't be labelled as such.I’ve stopped buying eggs now because free range are no longer available. The only eggs in shops are barn eggs. Am I wrong to think that barn eggs are all laid by chickens which have been reared in reprehensible conditions?
It'll probably seem smaller once they've hatched, though.
Also the comment upthread about them being fed marigolds just to make the colour better sounds like it might be a bad thing, but i am reading it is in fact a good thing. Marigolds are good for chickens....as to whether it is true Clarence court feeds them Marigolds,
It looks like Clarence Court does not do this?If anything is added at all, apart from zeaxanthin in maize/prairie meal etc., as part of the ration, synthetic carotenoids are added. I am unsure if the trade name still exists, but back a ways one of the common ones was Egemon (egg-em-on). The big name in carotenoids today - Carophyll.
As others have said, 'free range' in most cases is similar to 'barn' but with access to the outside through flaps or openings in the barn. Due to bird flu, these openings have had to be closed, so the eggs no longer meet the formal definition of 'free range' and can't be labelled as such.
I think, given what I value.....................
Milly finds out Clarence Court chickens have all day running around grassy land. Also the comment upthread about them being fed marigolds just to make the colour better sounds like it might be a bad thing, but i am reading it is in fact a good thing. Marigolds are good for chickens....as to whether it is true Clarence court feeds them Marigolds, I have no idea. But they are still my go-to egg brand.
I hope that you use no pig or any other poultry product then.
Pigs have a far better time in the UK than they have had in the recent past, those abroad far less so. I very much doubt they have proportionally as much room as chickens for a lot of the time though.
Most milk is produced from cows housed in very cramped conditions for at least a few months of the year too, as the ground is too wet/soft in most areas, some herds are even housed 24-7-365.
Indeed, in Alsace we were cutting wood in a dairy and the cows don't even go outside, they wander around in a barn and when their udders are full they know when and how to walk onto this robomilker so they can be relieved of the discomfort. Clever process but ultimately it looked like a shit life for the cows.I hope that you use no pig or any other poultry product then.
Pigs have a far better time in the UK than they have had in the recent past, those abroad far less so. I very much doubt they have proportionally as much room as chickens for a lot of the time though.
Most milk is produced from cows housed in very cramped conditions for at least a few months of the year too, as the ground is too wet/soft in most areas, some herds are even housed 24-7-365.
Clever process but ultimately it looked like a shit life for the cows.