Conor Benn’s fault as he’s been eating so many, that he failed a drugs test.
>Low-welfare eggs are flooding into the UK
Low**er** welfare eggs. FTFY Guardian. Low welfare, high cruelty eggs are absolutely standard here already.
**Edit: Should clear up what I meant by that**
last I checked 38% of eggs produced in the UK were coming from cage or barn systems. Some are sold as eggs, most go into pre prepared foods like biscuits, cakes, pasta, sandwiches etc so we just buy them that way instead
As for free range I also class that as low welfare production (very low actually):
– Indoor areas are very cramped at 9 birds per m2.
– outdoor access is only required for half the birds life
– Birds with low production are kicked to death by teams hired by abbatoirs
– Male chicks are gassed or macerated alive to the tune of about 1 every second (in the UK alone).
– The parents of the free range layers are forgotten about and get it much, much worse (they’re not free range)
– The layers have been bred to lay many times more eggs than their natural predecessors did, which takes a massive toll on their bodies and leads to severe health problems
– Chickens are roughly as intelligent as dogs (if thats relevant to anyone). If this was all being done to dogs we would class it as low welfare.
I think Free range is better, but it’s still a *very* cruel system overall
So what? If I have to choose between a chickens lifestyle and eating?
Eating wins.
Don’t care, still eating eggs. Gonna get my own chickens eventually.
But Poland is in the EU, so they should abide by EU regulations, I would have thought.
A lot of ‘welfare’ vegetarians have been munching on mass-processed food containing eggs from the cheapest, most caged, most chicken harming farms imaginable.
All those ready made cakes, sandwiches, soups, sweets, ready meals, Quorn… Caged egg is used in nearly everything.
Same is true for any eggs they’ve eaten at a restaurant.
Go vegan or give up.
<Don’t just downvote – explain to us all how YOUR money has not gone towards hurting the animals by purchasing the same processed food from the same giant companies who cheap out on eggs to max profits wherever possible?>
Is The Guardian going for shock and alarm? If so they picked the wrong country. Brits have proven for years they will eat absolute filth as long as it is cheap. Most people don’t actually care about quality or welfare, they just want cheap.
This sub – People queuing at food banks! Bastard government. Give them cheap food!
Also this sub – My food was raised wrong! Bastard government!
In my rural areas loads of people sell eggs from their own hens from their home.
The hens are running around their garden having a good life so I don’t feel so bad.
Not much can be done unfortunately. If I were in charge, I’d introduce the strictest farming standards on the planet. Free range meat and eggs only, all meat in processed products to be British (so the quality can be verified). I’d then get promptly booted out of office as food inflation would be triple what it is now.
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Conor Benn’s fault as he’s been eating so many, that he failed a drugs test.
>Low-welfare eggs are flooding into the UK
Low**er** welfare eggs. FTFY Guardian. Low welfare, high cruelty eggs are absolutely standard here already.
**Edit: Should clear up what I meant by that**
last I checked 38% of eggs produced in the UK were coming from cage or barn systems. Some are sold as eggs, most go into pre prepared foods like biscuits, cakes, pasta, sandwiches etc so we just buy them that way instead
As for free range I also class that as low welfare production (very low actually):
– Indoor areas are very cramped at 9 birds per m2.
– outdoor access is only required for half the birds life
– Birds with low production are kicked to death by teams hired by abbatoirs
– Male chicks are gassed or macerated alive to the tune of about 1 every second (in the UK alone).
– The parents of the free range layers are forgotten about and get it much, much worse (they’re not free range)
– The layers have been bred to lay many times more eggs than their natural predecessors did, which takes a massive toll on their bodies and leads to severe health problems
– Chickens are roughly as intelligent as dogs (if thats relevant to anyone). If this was all being done to dogs we would class it as low welfare.
I think Free range is better, but it’s still a *very* cruel system overall
So what? If I have to choose between a chickens lifestyle and eating?
Eating wins.
Don’t care, still eating eggs. Gonna get my own chickens eventually.
But Poland is in the EU, so they should abide by EU regulations, I would have thought.
A lot of ‘welfare’ vegetarians have been munching on mass-processed food containing eggs from the cheapest, most caged, most chicken harming farms imaginable.
All those ready made cakes, sandwiches, soups, sweets, ready meals, Quorn… Caged egg is used in nearly everything.
Same is true for any eggs they’ve eaten at a restaurant.
Go vegan or give up.
<Don’t just downvote – explain to us all how YOUR money has not gone towards hurting the animals by purchasing the same processed food from the same giant companies who cheap out on eggs to max profits wherever possible?>
Is The Guardian going for shock and alarm? If so they picked the wrong country. Brits have proven for years they will eat absolute filth as long as it is cheap. Most people don’t actually care about quality or welfare, they just want cheap.
This sub – People queuing at food banks! Bastard government. Give them cheap food!
Also this sub – My food was raised wrong! Bastard government!
In my rural areas loads of people sell eggs from their own hens from their home.
The hens are running around their garden having a good life so I don’t feel so bad.
Not much can be done unfortunately. If I were in charge, I’d introduce the strictest farming standards on the planet. Free range meat and eggs only, all meat in processed products to be British (so the quality can be verified). I’d then get promptly booted out of office as food inflation would be triple what it is now.