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GENERAL STUFF => GENERAL DISCUSSIONS => Random Chit Chat => Topic started by: Lakes on May 18, 2013, 21:28:27
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Hi all. just wondering what everyone's view on free range egg's?
I personally normally just buy egg's, but a close friend's wife has very strong view's on the subject. she won't eat egg's from a chook that has been penned up all it's life;
I think animal's should be free .
Also another lady I know thinks the same way but has cats that are in cages .so I can't work that one out. :whistler: :)
cheers
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Hi all. just wondering what everyone's view on free range egg's?
I personally normally just buy egg's, but a close friend's wife has very strong view's on the subject. she won't eat egg's from a chook that has been penned up all it's life;
I think animal's should be free .
Also another lady I know thinks the same way but has cats that are in cages .so I can't work that one out. :whistler: :)
cheers
Besides the views on animal cruelty, which have merit no doubt, th eggs themselves have a differnt appearance when cracked open and then there is taste quality.
And regarding the cats, I guess cats don't lay eggs. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Never cracked a cat r eaten it either.
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Hi all. just wondering what everyone's view on free range egg's?
I personally normally just buy egg's, but a close friend's wife has very strong view's on the subject. she won't eat egg's from a chook that has been penned up all it's life;
I think animal's should be free .
Also another lady I know thinks the same way but has cats that are in cages .so I can't work that one out. :whistler: :)
cheers
:lol: Yeah, there are a lot of hypocrites about .. Like people who go to church while sleeping with their Neighbour's wife (well not at the exact same time)
Personally I won't eat battery hens (unless they've used batteries without Mercury in them) :whistler:
Most of the eggs we eat are free range (from friends or family) but TBH I don't find the taste of them that much different to the supermarket ones. :undecided:
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battery farming hens for egg production is unbelievable cruel, and then after they are no use as layers their slaughter is equally cruel. The get hung up on a hook attached to a conveyor which is supposed to dispatch them quickly and painlessly needless to say they lines are never well maintained and since the peeps working there are on minimum wage they usually don't give a f**k anyhow... In fact not too long ago at one of our largest poultry suppliers the staff where tossing the turkeys up in the air and seeing how many times they could bat it with a bar before they actually died...
Still I eat eggs, meat, fish and.... well my view is, there is plenty of room for all Gods creatures, right next to the carrots n mash on my plate. So I am as guilty as the cruel bastards who do all that shit <sigh>
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I personally only buy free range eggs, either from the supermarket or from our neighbours (or at the local market). I have seen battery hens first hand as a young teenager, and the conditions are horrific. Yes, the eggs cost slightly more, but I do notice the difference between the colours of the yolks and the quality of the shells.
Hi all. just wondering what everyone's view on free range egg's?
I personally normally just buy egg's, but a close friend's wife has very strong view's on the subject. she won't eat egg's from a chook that has been penned up all it's life;
I think animal's should be free .
Also another lady I know thinks the same way but has cats that are in cages .so I can't work that one out. :whistler: :)
cheers
I also don't think the cats end up looking like this.
http://nocagedeggs.com/caged-eggs.htm (http://nocagedeggs.com/caged-eggs.htm)
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Couldn't agree more Fatboy. We pay extra for free range and are still being conned. The definition of free range in a commercial sense, is hundreds of chooks penned up in a shed with food distributed on the floor. Sure they're not caged, but it's not true free range either.
Caging chickens is downright cruel. After 12 months, they are given steroid food to fatten them up. The trucks full of chickens regularly travel our freeway and I can tell by the odd white feather, that there is one up ahead. I get really sad about seeing them knowing what their fate is, in the next hour. :'(
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mmm ITS SUNDAY!!! that means eggs and bacon...
i'm gonna go cook some right now!!
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Just to show how ignorant I am, I still had never heard the term battery hens so I've learnt something from this post :-[ so what is a battery hen? I like chooks they smell a bit if the owner does not keep there living quarters clean. but they harm no one & just run around looking for business like a used car salesman :lol: but they mean no one harm so deserve to be treated equally. the cat is a killer, but I meet a cat yesterday that even my cat haiting friend gave it a pat ( that was a big surprise ) it was a Scottish Fold i'd never meet one but he was a lovely friendly fellow.
after this i'll stick to free range eggs, But as Rusty has pointed out its more barn layed eggs, I said to my friend Jean, how can you be sure free range are as freash, when the hens could lay them anywhere. so the term is miss leading. I love all animals but don't have any, still feed the birds and like to have a bird bath out for the hot days in dry weather.
& thanks to you all, like ASA points out we would have to be 100% vegetarian not to be guilty, not saying that we aren't just i'm not but would not mind being one as once when I was in hospital they only feed vegetarian food & I felt really good when I got out then went back to normal eating & not feeling as good but not too bad eather, if you can understand what I mean
cheers
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Barn eggs are the best to eat
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mmm ITS SUNDAY!!! that means eggs and bacon...
i'm gonna go cook some right now!!
Ian how was the poor Babe murdered, love bancon n eggs too
cheers
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2 rashers, 2 blAck pudding, egg sunnyside up, round of toast and a healthy splog of brown sauce.
All washed down with a mug of rosie lea
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I HAVE NO BREAD, OHH WHY!!!!!
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I love my eggs. I have them for breakfast EVERY morning.....
And I've tried free range and el cheapo eggs and to be honest, I don't think there is bugger all difference in taste.
As for free range only costing slightly more? Bollocks! I buy home brand eggs for $2.39 a dozen and have seen true free range eggs for more than $7.00....
Most of these so called free range eggs are as Phil says. True free range chooks are those that get to wander around outside and eat grass and other crap....
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/free-to-range-or-not-have-supermarkets-egg-on-their-faces-20130303-2fefx.html (http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/free-to-range-or-not-have-supermarkets-egg-on-their-faces-20130303-2fefx.html)
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True free range eggs are the best,no Hormones,dyes or indirect pesticides,as for intensive farming,even though we do not agree with it, it is never going to stop,even with the statements if we stop buying the stuff it will stop, this is a ridiculous and bullshit statement, it will never stop,only way to stop it is to destroy half of human life on earth.thats not going to happen,so due to the ever increasing population that has to be fed,intensive farming and animal cruelty is only going to be on the increase,do I agree with it NO, do I like it NO, is it ever going to stop I Very Much Doubt it,anywhere in any animal invovled industry a human is invovled there will always be animal cruelty,maybe if they start intensive farming humans and cutting sexual organs off,so the majority can't breed,ripping teeth out so they can't damage each other when penned ten to a small 5x5 room,force fed hormone filled food,then senslessy have their throats cut,or a bolt shot into their heads at a certain age when someone has decided it is their time to be turned into something else,to benefit the rest of the worlds population,maybe things will start changing for the animals.
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I grew up on an egg farm in the 50s. Free range was how it was done in those days. I can't remember how many to the acre we had but there was always lots of space to walk around. Any time during the day we could always do repairs or some clean up, egg collection etc and there would only be a few dozen chooks in the shed, the other thousands were outside eating grass. Paddocks were rotated when grass got thin.
Free range eggs don't break before I get them home and the whites do not fill the fry pan like water when I break them. How free range they are though is anyone's guess but my guess is nothing like it was in the day.
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Pip I haven't seen a free range poultry farm like that for years,but I can remember as kid we used to get invited to one just outside of Adelaide towards Tailem Bend,we used to think it was great to go on what the farm kids called the egg hunt,like you said you didn't have to treat the eggs like thin crystal glasses
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Geez, some of the free range eggs I've had have had paper thin shells...
And, I've had the odd black putrid one which nearly caused me to gag when I've cracked it into the frying pan... :sicky:
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Geez, some of the free range eggs I've had have had paper thin shells...
And, I've had the odd black putrid one which nearly caused me to gag when I've cracked it into the frying pan... :sicky:
:rofl: :rofl: yes we water test all the free range eggs we get for that very reason,I have never had a black putrid one but had some fairly smelly ones until we started testing them before cracking them,as the the thin shells obviously the person/s your getting your eggs from is not looking after their chooks properly,more shell grit needed.
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That's right Rick, laugh at other people's misfortune.... :Pout: :lol:
And yes, I agree with the shell grit bit....
Tis ok now though, I was only eating free range because my then girlfriend wouldn't allow nasty cruel el cheapo eggs in her house... :snigger:
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I buy barn laid eggs. I will not buy cage eggs as I see no reason for cruelty. :disapp:
I wish we could treat our future dinners more kindly. Sometimes I think the term 'humanely' depends on which direction you look at it from. :workitout:
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@kittikat, I agree, the thought of loading chooks into noisy trucks and transporting them under stress to be plucked out by the feet and electrocuted is just woeful to me. :fum: :disapp:
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:whsaid:
Free range for this little black duck.
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Free range is ok for all you rich buggers.... :p
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I'm not a bitch rugger. :undecided:
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As I said Phil,will it ever change,I very much doubt it,I once had the job of pulling these chickens from their cramped crates and hanging them on the processing chains,to have their heads dragged throughan electrified vat of water,to simply stun them,so they where still alive and hearts beating,then to have their throats cut so they would bleed out properly,Yes will it ever stop,no it is all about economics and the almighty dollar to these industries,there is absolutely no thought for the animals,don't get me started on the other slaughter houses and what has been know to go on in them,is the whole world going to go Vegan,I don't think so,unfortunately we are omnivours,I like my meat meals like many others so I am as guilty for the animal cruelty as the next meat eating person, By the way all you moderators what has happened to the spell checker it has disappeared,so this post is probably full of mistakes. Get it fixed you lot :rofl:
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As I said Phil,will it ever change,I very much doubt it,I once had the job of pulling these chickens from their cramped crates and hanging them on the processing chains,to have their heads dragged throughan electrified vat of water,to simply stun them,so they where still alive and hearts beating,then to have their throats cut so they would bleed out properly,Yes will it ever stop,no it is all about economics and the almighty dollar to these industries,there is absolutely no thought for the animals,don't get me started on the other slaughter houses and what has been know to go on in them,is the whole world going to go Vegan,I don't think so,unfortunately we are omnivours,I like my meat meals like many others so I am as guilty for the animal cruelty as the next meat eating person, By the way all you moderators what has happened to the spell checker it has disappeared,so this post is probably full of mistakes. Get it fixed you lot :rofl:
Not moderators. We're not guilty Your Honour. (Note the capitals :goodjob:)
It's a job for the administrators.
Get it fixed you two. :wink:
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By the way all you moderators what has happened to the spell checker it has disappeared,so this post is probably full of mistakes. Get it fixed you lot :rofl:
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You are a funny man, Richard.
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Moderators,Administrators all the same to a simpleton like me :rofl: :rofl:
I don't care who's job it is, :disapp: get it done PPL or I may become upset :snigger: you really don't want an upset NB(R)
As for you David :whistler:,I think I am a funny man :twisted: in more ways than one :snigger:
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Here you go John, battery chickens........
(http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTBTbORFuY00Z-m9dbmjPSZjKBnqz2sSAeQRF4OzAQLtU7wVNYX)
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Moderators,Administrators all the same to a simpleton like me :rofl: :rofl:
I don't care who's job it is, :disapp: get it done PPL or I may become upset :snigger: you really don't want an upset NB(R)
As for you David :whistler:,I think I am a funny man :twisted: in more ways than one :snigger:
Funny ha ha or funny queer? :undecided:
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Moderators,Administrators all the same to a simpleton like me :rofl: :rofl:
I don't care who's job it is, :disapp: get it done PPL or I may become upset :snigger: you really don't want an upset NB(R)
As for you David :whistler:,I think I am a funny man :twisted: in more ways than one :snigger:
Funny ha ha or funny queer? :undecided:
Both. In his own words. :mrgreen:
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Moderators,Administrators all the same to a simpleton like me :rofl: :rofl:
I don't care who's job it is, :disapp: get it done PPL or I may become upset :snigger: you really don't want an upset NB(R)
As for you David :whistler:,I think I am a funny man :twisted: in more ways than one :snigger:
Funny ha ha or funny queer? :undecided:
Ah!Thats for the person I'm talking to at the time to decide, maybe sometimes funny Ha Ha sometimes funny in the head, I can swing funny anyway :cool:
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...what has happened to the spell checker it has disappeared,so this post is probably full of mistakes. Get it fixed you lot :rofl:
We appear to have lost a number of features in the past 12 hours :(
I think the forum got pissed on its 5th birthday and never recovered :lol:
I'll see what's going on...
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Maybe it's a case of Shambled eggs. :undecided:
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As I said Phil,will it ever change,I very much doubt it,I once had the job of pulling these chickens from their cramped crates and hanging them on the processing chains,to have their heads dragged throughan electrified vat of water,to simply stun them,so they where still alive and hearts beating,then to have their throats cut so they would bleed out properly,Yes will it ever stop,no it is all about economics and the almighty dollar to these industries,there is absolutely no thought for the animals,don't get me started on the other slaughter houses and what has been know to go on in them,is the whole world going to go Vegan,I don't think so,unfortunately we are omnivours,I like my meat meals like many others so I am as guilty for the animal cruelty as the next meat eating person, By the way all you moderators what has happened to the spell checker it has disappeared,so this post is probably full of mistakes. Get it fixed you lot :rofl:
Thanks Rick for the graphic real life experience you've had, I have an indelible picture in my mind now. All I can say is that I respect that you were prepared to do anything to put bread on the table. I'd rather starve. :fum:
Where's that red :question: :whistler:
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Where's that red :question: :whistler:
In my hand. ;)
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I just refilled too. :lol:
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That reminds me.....
There, that's better....
Mmmmmmm, beer!!!
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That's 3, anyone else imbibing right now, let us know your poison.
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I HAVE NO BREAD, OHH WHY!!!!!
(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a372/sykomonkeeeee/DSC_0827_zps5aab434c.jpg)
oh that reminds me Ian i need to get a Bar b que soon, i told my pommy mate what our Lord Shambles said about them & he agrees, only because he got one and was a lousy cook LOL
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That's 3, anyone else imbibing right now, let us know your poison.
Glasses or bottles? :undecided:
It's usually a red for me, occasionally white and even more occasionally a scotch on ice.
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A big full-bodied SA Shiraz for me. :cool:
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A big full-bodied SA Shiraz for me. :cool:
I'll bring the glasses and the decorkifier, Gonz, you supply the wine!!
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That's 3, anyone else imbibing right now, let us know your poison.
Had a hard 2 hours of squash this arvo followed by 3 stubbies (oh... nice) now it's a red with dinner... still nice. :cool:
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Right. That's it.
I'm off to get a bundy and cola. :goodjob:
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A big full-bodied SA Shiraz for me. :cool:
I'll bring the glasses and the decorkifier, Gonz, you supply the wine!!
Glasses?
You use glasses?
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A big full-bodied SA Shiraz for me. :cool:
Ah, women and wine, both full-bodied, are two of life's greatest pleasures. :D
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2 rashers, 2 blAck pudding, egg sunnyside up, round of toast and a healthy splog of brown sauce.
All washed down with a mug of rosie lea
i'm trying to translate this into plane english LOL
i know what 2 rashers are, 2 black pudding? i think its pig's blood? but 2? know what eggs sunny side up is, i'm trying to work out a health splog of brown sauce? probably Worcestershire sauce? mug of rosie lea?
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. All I can say is that I respect that you were prepared to do anything to put bread on the table. I'd rather starve. :fum:
Phil this is a whole other subject,But yes unlike many in this world I AM prepared to do ANYTHING to put food on the table for MY FAMILY,if I go without that does not worry me,wouoldn't be the first time,won't be the last,but I would never let my family starve. even if it meant I had too
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i'll have a glass of victorian red, i tried a great drop in victoria near Emerald a few years back from a very small wine maker ( on two wheels ) that's what i'll have and a yellow fin tuna steak with a few prawns & doz rock oysters
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That's 3, anyone else imbibing right now, let us know your poison.
For me I have not partaken in this activity for nigh on thirty years,Sadly I do not have that many brain cells left to squander, even on a social basis,you think I am intimidating now :evil:, no one even my own family wanted to see me on the sauce :scared:,I'll just stick to my coffee and water,maybe I should even give up the coffee,even that now a days tends to get me a little over excitable, :whistler:
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... maybe I should even give up the coffee, even that now a days tends to get me a little over excitable, :whistler:
Ah, yes, the laughing so hard the tears run down your leg, I see that now. :lol:
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. All I can say is that I respect that you were prepared to do anything to put bread on the table. I'd rather starve. :fum:
Phil this is a whole other subject,But yes unlike many in this world I AM prepared to do ANYTHING to put food on the table for MY FAMILY,if I go without that does not worry me,wouoldn't be the first time,won't be the last,but I would never let my family starve. even if it meant I had too
good for you m8, when i was a kid my uncle had a poltry farm up gosford, i went up on school holidays, & my uncle showed me how to kill a chook & pluck it to get it ready for my aunty to cook roast chook. he got hold of it upside down by the legs it got groggy when blood rushed to it's head then he swung it around about four times then stretched its kneck. this was about 55 years back
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I AM SLIGHTLY CONFUSED ARE WE TALKING EGGS OR DRINKS, I PREFER DRINKS AND I AM CURRENTLY HAVING A GREAT ROSE AND MY OFFSIDER IS HAVING YET ANOTHER RED YES I COUNT HIS DRINKS AND FROM WHERE I AM SITTING HE WILL DEFINITELY SLEEP WELL TONIGHT :rolleyes:
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:disapp: :fum:
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I AM SLIGHTLY CONFUSED ARE WE TALKING EGGS OR DRINKS, I PREFER DRINKS AND I AM CURRENTLY HAVING A GREAT ROSE AND MY OFFSIDER IS HAVING YET ANOTHER RED YES I COUNT HIS DRINKS AND FROM WHERE I AM SITTING HE WILL DEFINITELY SLEEP WELL TONIGHT :rolleyes:
And SNORE very LOUDLY. :lol:
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So the age old question - which came first, the chicken or the egg - has anyone ever been able to say for certain which it was?
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So the age old question - which came first, the chicken or the egg - has anyone ever been able to say for certain which it was?
If you're a creationist, the chicken.
If you're an evolutionist, it doesn't matter because the definitions would be blurred. :cool:
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A big full-bodied SA Shiraz for me. :cool:
Ah, women and wine, both full-bodied, are two of life's greatest pleasures. :D
provided you can get both..... :whistler:
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...what has happened to the spell checker it has disappeared...
Our server was upgraded with no prior notification (insert angry face) and that lost us a few features, temporarily.
After a brief exchange of expletives, all has now been restored, so I'm assured :D