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06 Feb 10
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eggselent
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sainsbury medium egg....means bout 30 for an omellette.
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suck eggs!
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I saw a sign outside a farm once that said ' Free Range Eggs.'
I didn't know they'd been captured. |
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you can get 15 eggs for £1.50 oot ay Iceland....the shop that is
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anyone who doesn't buy free range eggs should be shot.
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even better with a stolen colleague discount card
show us yer nectar points, ta. |
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What if they just don't like eggs? :(
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i buy fairtrade bananas
also fairtrade tea if I can find it, normally a Tetley drinker, but Fairtrade tea is excellent stuff |
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lol Catford, good point
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is this a limited offer, whens it run out??
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There's no special offer notice or anything. It's bizarre, their BASICS range are like 92p for 6.
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yeah but they are barn eggs, this is saying FREE RANGE.
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well that my point, that free range eggs are being sold at considerably cheaper prices than battery eggs
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makes you wonder whether they are actually free range
i know there was a study in aus recently that showed a fair percentage of what were being sold as 'free range' did not meet the standards |
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I imagine there's a fair amount of scale in quality in what can be legally described as free range. Hard to see them operating outside that though, they'd get in so much bother.
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the consumer watchdog looked at it last year here - apparently "more free range eggs were being sold than hens actually laid, meaning cartons were being falsely and deceptively labelled"
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/accc-hints-at-organic-freerange-eggs-probe/1571433.aspx |
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That's a very strange article. The only substantive point seems to be that the relevant body have said they would investigate if there was any evidence, which one would rather hope would be the case everywhere.
The source for the supposed question that suggested more free-range eggs were being sold in Australia than hens actually laid isn't given. It's a bit like a journo shouting at ooh, let's say Keith Chegwin "Do you mess with children?", Chegwin ignoring him, and the paper running with 'Chegwin refuses to be drawn on kiddy fiddling claims'. |
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well, that's the point really - who knows what is in a carton of eggs? theoretically egg producers could claim anything
i don't have any idea if it was true - what i do know is if i saw eggs labelled as free range for less than cage eggs, it would make me wonder how they were making money. but then again, if i was selling eggs dodgily, i would not sell them so cheap as to raise suspicion... so the answer is a pineapple - enjoy your eggs p.s. i only buy cage eggs...feel a bit guilty but the inner tightarse in me won't allow free range prices! |
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I only by free range, but the statement about them selling more that can be laid worried me.
I buy Morrisons free range. How guaranteed is it that they are really free range? |
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like sparky says treble, it's just an unsubstantiated claim in australia - but it got me thinking
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Well no - the only relevant fact in that article is that the regulatory body have said that they wouldn't accept such wrongdoing and would actively investigate if they felt it necessary. That's reassuring, or would be if I lived in Australia.
Of course, the article tries to lead the reader in another direction through unsourced questions, supposition and flawed logic - but the fact that they don't actually supply ANY evidence that non-free range eggs are being marked as free range, would suggest they've tried to find some and failed - the result being this rather desperately maniupulatice piece. |
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if you lived in aus, you would know what a joke the ACCC are, and have very little faith in them to ensure egg quality... ;)
have i really posted this much about eggs? must be time for bed |
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As a nightcap then, please accept this example of how fussy the British are about the labelling of their eggs.
The carton concerned contains a warning: this product contains eggs! |
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I'm going to buy a load at that price and put some farmers out of business :-(
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CRACKING VALUE SPARKY.
I MAY SHELL OUT FOR A DOZEN.TA |