"Made with cage free eggs."

fuzzybuddy

fuzzybuddy

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I just bought some mayonnaise. It's "Light": And has "60% less fat than mayonnaise". And it also is "made with Cage Free Eggs". HUH? How can an egg tell if it's in a cage? I understand the Free Cage part. We want our chickens to wander around, and have a good life; before we haul off and kill and eat them. Free range is intended to make a chicken a happier bird, and supposedly taste better. But when was the last time you saw a chicken egg crossing the road? Do you really have to cage eggs? Where does an egg go once you free it?
 

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fuzzybuddy said:
I just bought some mayonnaise. It's "Light": And has "60% less fat than mayonnaise". And it also is "made with Cage Free Eggs". HUH? How can an egg tell if it's in a cage? I understand the Free Cage part. We want our chickens to wander around, and have a good life; before we haul off and kill and eat them. Free range is intended to make a chicken a happier bird, and supposedly taste better. But when was the last time you saw a chicken egg crossing the road? Do you really have to cage eggs?
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Nope, I've yet to see one escape from a carton.
Cages for eggs does seem rather extreme. Jar
free mayonnaise should be more of a thing too.

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Do cage-free eggs come from free range chickens? These are a thing in my area, but take a little getting used to as a former suburban boy. Such chickens may be seen strutting about on lawns, occasionally venturing foolishly onto roads where they soon become pressed chickens. This would ruffle my feathers, if I had any.

I hope someday to visit a boneless chicken ranch, as I’ve often wondered how such poor creatures ambulate… 🐓
 
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We have a neighbor who raises chickens, and lets them roam freely. They sometimes give us a dozen of their extra eggs, and quite frankly I can't tell the difference, in taste, between those and the store eggs....other than the color of the shell.

But, we live in a rural area surrounded by large chicken and turkey farms....and there are always large trucks carrying these birds to an area Tyson processing plant. The way these birds are fed...with growth hormones, etc., they reach maturity in about half the time it takes nature. I've felt, for a long time, that these "additives" stay in the meat, and we consume them....which may be a contributing factor to the obesity issues.
 
I think there is a difference between an egg laid by a chicken, (or hen!), scratching around in a farmyard all its life, and then laying away in a bran with the intention of sitting the eggs to try to hatch them when the mood takes her! 🐓🐣🐔

One consequence of this is you do sometimes play a kind of chance or jeopardy, where an egg may have well and truly gone off before the nest has been found, and some even explode on you and the smell is of course dreadful! :eek:
 

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