Free Range or Value eggs?

kings981

Free range - no choice!

Rachel021967

About 20 years ago I worked in admin for MAFF and the local Egg inspector found battery eggs sold as free range eggs in a Health food store. Both store and producer were prosecuted and fined.
However, commercial free range still means intensively reared otherwise the producer wouldn't make much of a profit, especially with eggs.

lil_me

DonnaP I have seen retailers sell eggs as FR which were not too, disgusted me. I've also seen people buying at F&V/Meat markets who run Organic stalls on a market, very annoying.

pink princess, just off the A690 on the road towards Bearpark (about 4 miles I think from Sainsburys) there is a farmshop which just does eggs and potatoes at a reasonable price, just ring the door bell and she'll open the garage door. Friday and Saturday 10-4 there is also a farm shop a little further along, Aldin Grange Meats who do mainly meats but eggs too.

As far as eggs go I buy FR, if money was tight I would buy whatever was cheap enough for me at the best standard I could buy.

luverlyjuberly

kings981 wrote: »

Free range - no choice!

One answer
Good!

ubamother

by the by, Morrison's has a special - free range eggs £1 for half a dozen - from the Happy Egg Company or something like that

jakejenson

I alway buy FR from supermarkets, however last week I brought some Fr eggs from my local butcher and the yolks where bright orange almost red. It scared me abit as i'm used to pale yellow yolks. Is this normal?

Fat_Fairy

local free range are best - but even better, don't buy eggs!
you can cook/bake most things without eggs which are expensive and bad for your cholestorol levels.
also, most of the male chicks are unwanted to the egg industry (for obvious reasons) and are ground or minced alive as a 'waste product' :mad:

craig777

jakejenson wrote: »

I brought some Fr eggs from my local butcher and the yolks where bright orange almost red. It scared me abit as i'm used to pale yellow yolks. Is this normal?

I think it depends on what the chicken is fed as to what colour yolks you get. I'm pretty sure a farmer can specify what colour yolk is required from a colour chart and then the feed is altered to achieve this colour.

blueberrypie

Fat_Fairy wrote: »

you can cook/bake most things without eggs which are expensive and bad for your cholestorol levels.

They've changed their minds on that one now:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7882850.stm

Limiting egg consumption has little effect on cholesterol levels, research has confirmed.

A University of Surrey team said their work suggested most people could eat as many eggs as they wanted without damaging their health.

The researchers, who analysed several studies of egg nutrition, said the idea that eating more than three eggs a week was bad for you was still widespread.

But they said that was a misconception based on out-of-date evidence.