Poll: Do you buy cage eggs?

[DoPo]

I cannot express how disappointed I am with the number of people in this thread who don't care about the eggs they buy. I only get eggs from black feathered chickens and if you people don't, I will happily tell you how much you suck.

 

[Hunter65416]

I buy whatever is on sale.

I don't have a problem with keeping chickens in cages because I've seen the alternative first hand. Like most bird species, chickens are cannibalistic.

Hahaha I worked at the SPCA and we totally fed the chickens chicken leftover from what we used to get donated from inghams for the cats

 

[Loop Stricken]

I voted "I never pay attention".

To clarify; I don't pay attention, and even if I had the luxury to not merely buy the cheapest available, I still wouldn't care all that much.

 

[The Pinray]

Nah, I just lay them myself. Way cheaper.

 

[Suave Charlie]

Kind of like illuminating your room with a strobe light all day every day. I imagine you and I would be just about ready to tear someone's head off after living in that for month.

Only thing I could think of was a ridiculous 3 day rave at a friends house a few years ago. Never felt so shitty after a party in my life.

OT Free range cost 3x the price in sainsburys, and the conditions are only fractionally better for the chickens, they're still crammed beak to wing in barns. Plus the very valid point that I just don't give a fuck..

 

[Zeckt]

Well, I never buy eggs at all (just because I don't like them, not for any moral reasons), but even if I did I wouldn't bother with free range. It always amazes me how people can get up on their high horse about these sorts of things and still make it so obvious they haven't actually bothered to read Michael Pollan's books, since it's from his work that the contemporary concern with food is derived. Pollan was the author of the book that Food Inc (the documentary which kicked off the current craze) was based on. And if you'd read Pollan's work, you'd realize what a scam "free range" eggs are. The conditions that "free range" chickens are raised under are almost identical to those that caged chickens are raised under.

Whoa, I'm still waiting for you to "educate" us op, I would very much like you to rebuttal this as he has very good points.

The requirements for getting the "free range" label by the FDA are such that the chickens only have to be allowed out of the cage for a certain portion of their lives. They grow up in the exact same living conditions, and when they are older they are allowed to roam, but by that time most of the birds are so set in their ways that it is actually very rare that any of them venture out into the yard.

Now, if you're buying your eggs directly from an institution which has been researched like Polyface farms, then yes, you might actually get eggs from chickens which are raised free. But if you're buying "free range" eggs from a grocery store you're just getting ripped off by corporate interests which know that they can take advantage of the public's naivete and feelings of guilt. If you want to avoid buying eggs from chickens raised under abhorrent conditions, your only option is to either not buy eggs or to actually take the time to research who you're buying the eggs from (and don't think that just because you're buying at a farmer's market means you're in the clear, YOU HAVE TO RESEARCH!!!!!!!)

Whoa, I'm still waiting for you to "educate" us op, he has very good points. Care to rebuttal it? I would love to see how you can combat this.

 

[ResonanceSD]

I buy free range, because a) I have a job and b) They actually taste like something you want to eat.

 

[Stainlesssteele4]

Having chickens myself, I can say that it is immensely difficult to have 100% free range chickens without losing several weekly to predatory animals like foxes and possums.
Now, I'm not sure if you mean cooped chickens, but no chickens are in actual cages.
If you have a problem with cooped chickens, then its misplaced self righteousness. Chickens need protection, and there are a lot of animals that enjoy snacking on chickens and their eggs. You can certainly have a problem with animal cruelty, but housing chickens is necessary.

 

[Risingblade]

I buy whatever eggs are present, they all taste the same to me.

Also, I don't eat eggs very often at the moment--too much effort involved in cooking them.

Do you survive on cereal? I'm trying to think of anything that takes less effort than eggs.

Making a sandwich of course!

 

[Vault101]

yeah...my grandparents used to own a chicken battery.....

also "free range" is a loaded term anyhow

 

[soulless-5]

cheap. Don't really care about the animal treatment. Cheap is best. I care more far more about the treatment of humans. I'll care about mistreated animals when humans are treated equally and fairly

 

[Eamar]

The conditions that "free range" chickens are raised under are almost identical to those that caged chickens are raised under.

I'd just like to point out that, fortunately, the same is not true outside the US. In the UK, for example, free-range is very much a cage-free thing.

However they can stuff 1000 of them on the floor of a barn in tighter conditions than if they were in cages and that still qualifies. That's true EU wide, they just need to be given a fenced area outside one barn door to count.

Yes, but barn reared is a separate category to free range.

 

[Rastien]

I honestly don't care.

Sorry but exploiting animals for human gain doesn't bother me : /

I respect your views and choices to eat good eggs, all i ask is you respect my choice not to.

I want to put you in a tiny cage and force you to eat feed with bits of dead human in it and watch you slowly go insane and start self harming. I will then pay jailers to keep you there. Other people may choose not to do this and I respect their views but I hope you respect my choice

I do respect your choice, difference being you can't do that to me we are apex predators its the way of the world the strong prey off the weak last i checked a chicken never kicked anyones ass.

You can try and guilt trip me to your side of things and show me all the horrendus videos and treatment of chickens in the world i couldn't give a bollacks most people have enough on their plate to deal with without the need to be worrying about trivial thigns.

lol captcha: "too bad" sure is.

 

[phantasmalWordsmith]

I don't care to be honest. Eggs are eggs and whatever puts them on the shelves works fine for me

 

[Ickorus]

..Its not like eggs are an expensive product anyway

You clearly have never experienced poverty.

I know your next argument (Why do I play games if I'm poor) and I'll give you fair reasoning: I'd rather enjoy my life than pay the little excess I manage to save up so a chicken can be happier with it's lot in life.

 

[Timmey]

I don't pay attention to their conditions, merely the price. I just buy the cheapest.

 

[Bvenged]

Free range, because the chickens are generally happier not stuffed into a chicken-sized cage for their entire lives.

Also, free range only costs crap-all more than caged. You can get 12 caged eggs for £1.60 and 12 free range eggs for £2.50 from my local supermarket.