If you're not quite tight enough to buy the cheap eggs from some poor sod chicken that spends its life in an A4-sized cage each day of its mercifully short life, the New Farm IGA has a good deal on free range eggs, I think most other IGAs would be running this promotion as well.
They're out the front of the shop, must be some new brand wanting to establish itself.
Yeah, bread baked fresh today which is actually shipped over from Europe then microwaved to "fresh", stuff made from local and imported ingredients, so much dodgy stuff still left to clean up in consumer protection laws.
Err… source to show that it is microwaved?
The products should be part baked, which means they still go in the oven.
And the bread you are talking about is specialty overseas bread.
What would be the point in making bread that tastes like everything else and putting it in the speciality section?
Oops my bad, they do use oven. I have microwave on the brain, mine just died and bought a new one plus the SMH article I was reading on Saturday on this story was that a Coles customer needed to thaw their fresh baked in store loaf in the microwave as the centre was frozen.
There is a definition - to be labelled free range, farms must have a stocking density of no more than 1500 hens per hectare.
Compliance is another thing, something like one-third of producers exceed the maximum densities.
no there is NOT a definition here in australia. there is some certification which is done by a 3rd party but its still not a legal definition…. which means you can keep your chickens in a cage there whole lives yet still put a label on your eggs that says "free range" and theres nothing anyone can do about it… meaning that something labeled free range without 3rd party certification means nothing.
i cant be bothered finding the links again, i have already posted them before on OzB but google it and you may well be shocked.
FYI im not having a go at you in the slightest, im just pissed off at the situation……. battery hens and pigs etc piss me off.
Most prefer to live in the city than the country: Make up your own mind:20,000 hens per ha (YouTube)
yep. if they had a choice, chickens would prefer a cage than be pecked to death in overstocked farms.
in general, the cheaper the eggs, the worse conditions for the chickens.
That is awful, I'm a Brit, assumed it was the same and I have been buying free ranged eggs thinking I am doing my bit.
Whats that ratty box thing next to the bananas lol
Oooh …. looks like you baked a passionfruit cake?
yah, lemon and passionfruit sponge
for what its worth….. there is no legal definition of "free range" in australia so even these are probably farmed in the cages anyway…..