Medium eggs are kinder eggs
I never thought about egg size in connection with animal welfare before.
― Alba, Thursday, 12 March 2009 12:15 (fifteen years ago) link
This guy is representing free-range producers and I'm guessing that the largest sizes of egg can only be reliably produced through more intensive, battery-type farming, so it's a bit of jockeying for position with those guys and just boils down to marketing crap. The 'kinder' argument is totally bogus. I suppose it *is* kinder relatively speaking, but free-range chickens are still routinely debeaked with no pain relief, they're still bred to produce up to an egg a day (wild hens would ovulate only about 20 times a year) and they're all still shipped off to slaughter once the overall productivity of the flock falls. It's not really an industry where kindness is of much consequence.
― Dom Cry For Me, Passantino (NickB), Thursday, 12 March 2009 12:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Plus don't forget the baby male chicks.
― Say what you like Professor Words (Ned Trifle II), Thursday, 12 March 2009 12:50 (fifteen years ago) link
If it's kinder relatively speaking, that's worth taking into account, isn't it?
― Alba, Thursday, 12 March 2009 12:51 (fifteen years ago) link
I just made the best scrambled eggs I've ever made. Cracking them straight into the pan is definitely the way to go. Also absolutely shitloads of butter doesn't hurt.
― chap, Thursday, 12 March 2009 13:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, but you're talking about a little marketable ripple of kindness on an ocean of couldn't-care-less.
― Dom Cry For Me, Passantino (NickB), Thursday, 12 March 2009 13:26 (fifteen years ago) link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_C8E3jfVllPY/RndVGtHM7UI/AAAAAAAAABM/khetpaQ6tcg/s320/KinderEgg.jpg
― tard and feathered (braveclub), Thursday, 12 March 2009 13:28 (fifteen years ago) link
eggs where are you
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