I think you can only get free roaming eggs here, at least it says "from free roaming chickens" on all the cartons in the store. 
Poll: Do you buy cage eggs?
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I was going to say something along those lines, though possibly in a nicer way. Pretty much everything we consume comes at the cost of someone else suffering unjustly. Free range chicken people strike me as something like KONY 2012 people - willing to latch on and aggressively preach any cause that gets thrown at them by the media.Bradeck said:
Free Range, same goes for meat especially. I don't want to feed myself or my children crappy poor quality meats.
I should add we very, very rarely eat eggs and we buy meat on offer/reduced and freeze it and don't eat meat everyday because we're not made of money like 99% of Escapists.
I should add we very, very rarely eat eggs and we buy meat on offer/reduced and freeze it and don't eat meat everyday because we're not made of money like 99% of Escapists.
I don't buy cage eggs if at all possible. I've personally seen how messed up those battery cage farms are. I'm no vegetarian, but there are better ways of getting eggs than that. I'm willing to pay a little more to put the birds through less suffering.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not PETA member. I'm no animal-worshipper. I am a humanist and a human-centrist and a fanatical defender of humanity as the only species capable of science. But although I do believe animals are less intelligent (and therefore, less capable and of lesser importance than humans) I do know that they can feel pain. You stick a fork into a Chicken, it will react. You deprive a chicken of water, and it will be distressed. You stick it in a goddamn cage barely large enough to hold it and literally lock its head in place so that it can do nothing but feed and lay eggs, and I can guarantee you that chicken will be stressed the hell out.
Yeah, Chickens aren't human. Not even close to human. Yeah, they don't deserve the same rights as humans. But that doesn't mean they don't deserve any rights. They deserve to have some freedom of movement. Some air. Some sun.
If you're going to eat eggs, don't buy cage eggs. No animal, except for many flies, and some other insects, deserves the cage treatment.
Again - I'm not PETA person. I'm not a vegetarian. But I do know that animals can feel pain and distress. If they couldn't they never would have survived the wild. Biologically, they have nerves, and they can feel with those nerves. Once again - if you stick a fork into a live chicken, it'll react to that fork. It feels it.
Pay slightly more so that battery cage farming ends. Because that stuff's messed up.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not PETA member. I'm no animal-worshipper. I am a humanist and a human-centrist and a fanatical defender of humanity as the only species capable of science. But although I do believe animals are less intelligent (and therefore, less capable and of lesser importance than humans) I do know that they can feel pain. You stick a fork into a Chicken, it will react. You deprive a chicken of water, and it will be distressed. You stick it in a goddamn cage barely large enough to hold it and literally lock its head in place so that it can do nothing but feed and lay eggs, and I can guarantee you that chicken will be stressed the hell out.
Yeah, Chickens aren't human. Not even close to human. Yeah, they don't deserve the same rights as humans. But that doesn't mean they don't deserve any rights. They deserve to have some freedom of movement. Some air. Some sun.
If you're going to eat eggs, don't buy cage eggs. No animal, except for many flies, and some other insects, deserves the cage treatment.
Again - I'm not PETA person. I'm not a vegetarian. But I do know that animals can feel pain and distress. If they couldn't they never would have survived the wild. Biologically, they have nerves, and they can feel with those nerves. Once again - if you stick a fork into a live chicken, it'll react to that fork. It feels it.
Pay slightly more so that battery cage farming ends. Because that stuff's messed up.
I buy my eggs battery, but only from providers that allow the chickens 35 days holiday a year, and weekends off! Oh, and they must offer a good pension, and a yearly Christmas bonus!
In other words I haven't much of an interest in what I buy, as long as it is lion quality and tastes good I don't really care!
In other words I haven't much of an interest in what I buy, as long as it is lion quality and tastes good I don't really care!
Okay, I'm not veggie and I don't care about my caged vs free range all that much (like I said, wouldn't buy free range if they were that much more expensive) but... "they are animals, and therefore not sentient"... what do you think humans are, minerals? And considering a lot of non-human animals (including chickens) show problem solving abilities and instant distress in response to pain, what else do you classify as sentience, out of curiosity?spartan231490 said:
Animals aren't people therefore their lives are irrelevant.
okay that was a little blase and more than a little harsh but honestly there isn't much of a moral dilemma regarding "Kill something for your own desires" and "kill something in an inhumane way for your own desires."
okay that was a little blase and more than a little harsh but honestly there isn't much of a moral dilemma regarding "Kill something for your own desires" and "kill something in an inhumane way for your own desires."
Where I shop, they only specify them as eggs, and organic eggs. The organic ones cost more than twice the amount the other eggs do, so due to that and the fact they taste the same, I pick up the regular eggs.
Roomies keep picking up that organic crap though (guess they never saw the episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit on Organic Foods). One time, I remember one of them picked up this horrible tasting organic milk, and insisted we pay a share of it that was enough to pick up a whole gallon of the regular stuff. But I'm getting off topic here.
Roomies keep picking up that organic crap though (guess they never saw the episode of Penn & Teller's Bullshit on Organic Foods). One time, I remember one of them picked up this horrible tasting organic milk, and insisted we pay a share of it that was enough to pick up a whole gallon of the regular stuff. But I'm getting off topic here.
