Do You Only Eat Free Range Eggs?

no I eat whatever ones are on sale that week

1. Do you buy cage laid or free range eggs?

cage laid

2. Vegetarians, do you eat organic or free range eggs?

Organic vegetables

3. What does "free range eggs" mean?

This term varies per country based on the regulations imposed by the overseeing law makers & the standards of regulation in place It can be anything from a complete marketing ploy to Make people believe the animals are raised on traditional farms where they run around the yard, or where the chickens have access to outside for X hours a day to run around and perform natural instincts. As to how the chickens get outside may not be regulated eg there could be only a single door/hatch in a barn of thousands of chickens. Check your source via the readable code either on the egg or packet

4. Are free range eggs fertilised?

If there is a rooster on the premises who is with the hens, then they could be. Generally there is not especially in larger operations, but if they also raise chickens either for meat or to replace their own as they age out or increase the flock, then yes, they would also have roosters. You would be more likely to see this on a smaller farm.

5. Do Cadbury's use free range eggs or battery eggs in their products?

Well, the words "free range" are not on thier website anywhere, and they do not make any claims, and they are a highly commercial industry. I can not say for sure, so will leave you to fill in the blanks,

6. Vegans, why might it be wrong to eat no kill free range eggs?

Thats actually a good point. Because the only reason i can think to not eat eggs is how they are killed after. I am an ovo-vegetarian which i think is quite rare because i eat eggs but not milk. I only eat free range eggs but have thought about giving them up because they still get killed for meat after, however i expect i will end up giving up eggs one day. I do think what you have suggested is ethical and i would eat them. but, i have not heard of any companies who sell no-kill free range eggs... i do not see how that would work because once the chickens stop laying eggs the company would have to pay to keep them alive - i do not think a business would be able to make much money from this. You could have your own chickens though i suppose. Thanks for raising this point, i had never really thought about it

7. Do free range eggs actually taste better or is free range only beneficial for the chicken?

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8. Is eating free range eggs just as bad as eating the eggs of caged chickens?

"Free range" is a joke. Honestly, I think the term only exists to make people feel better. From Compassion Over Killing: "There is no inspection system for companies that label their eggs "free-range." The popular myth that "free-range" egg-laying hens enjoy fresh grass, bask in the sunlight, scratch the earth, sit on their nests, and engage in other natural habits is often just that: a myth. In many commercial "free-range" egg farms, hens are crowded inside windowless sheds with little more than a single, narrow exit leading to an enclosure, too small to accommodate all of the birds at once. Both battery cage and "free-range" egg hatcheries kill all male chicks shortly after birth. Since male chicks cannot lay eggs and are different breeds than those chickens raised for meat, they are of no use to the egg industry. Standard killing methods, even among "free-range" producers, include grinding male chicks alive or throwing them into trash bags and leaving them to suffocate. Whether kept in sheds or cages, laying hens-who can naturally live more than ten years-are considered "spent" when they are just one or two years old and their productivity wanes. Rather than being retired, "free-range" hens are slaughtered to make room for another shed of birds."