Fresh Cage Eggs are on special at Coles. Great for meatheads like me who consume copious quantities of animal protein every day just to maintain a muscular physique for superficial purposes. These have plenty of shelf-life and are not a clearance item so you can stock up and save a few dollars on a staple food.
Chicken eggs are a nutritious source of highly absorbable protein, vitamin B12, vitamin D and zinc.
Still better of not being entirely sure whether they're free range than being 100% sure that they're not.
A fool and their money are soon parted.
You can do your homework and research available brands… then pick one or two which are reputable and keep buying from them only.
Use the CluckAR app to find out for sure very easily and quickly every time u shop
Say no to caged eggs
It's OK, these are cartoned.
CHICKEN FIGHT!
How eggciting! But I can how some would find it eggsaperating.
I too prefer to shell out for cage free eggs but the extra cost might be too much of a yolk for some to bare.
My neg has been overturned!!
Congratulations thats what you wanted so everything is now ok .
Have you noticed that comments against caged eggs that didnt down vote the deal, get upvoted with no neg votes……
Yes, I guess you could say they're walking on eggshells.
Eggsactly, all is ok in the world now.
I dont agree to be honest. Do you eat meat?
Yeah, not a fan. I also happily spend a little bit extra on the, more comfortable anyway, recycled toilet paper.
Any paper towels.
Is it any wonder that the world is such a rubbish place when many people care more about $2 than the life of an innocent animal.
Is it any wonder that the world is such a rubbish place
I dunno, it seems pretty good to me. :)
yep pretty good when you can get 12 eggs for $2.70
I dunno, it seems pretty good to me. :)
Scrooge, I think that you're in a place of some considerable torment and may have been for quite some time. Unrelated to others. Hopefully not for your entire life, that would be particularly sad.
You do realise that even "free range" egg farmers put their male chicks into a grinder at a day old, and kill the hens as soon as they stop laying as quickly (usually at about 10% of their natural life)… Right?
So get off your damn high horse. If you eat meat, eggs or any dairy you are just as complicit in animal suffering as anyone else. "Free range" and the like are just bullshit labels invented by marketing companies to get money out of people with a guilty conscience who don't actually want to do anything.
Complicit yes.. Just as complicit = clearly not.
I may slaughter a cow on the way home seeing as we are all equally culpable eh..
Pretty much, yeah. There's no difference between killing something and paying someone else to do it for you.
Is it any wonder that the world is such a rubbish place
It is? It is probably the only planet among countless billions in our local galactic cluster when beings exist who can even consider the question.
That's pretty f'ing amazing!
So don't you go dissing the most awesome world in a 10-million light-year radius.
If you don't love it, leave!
Thanks OP. Got 5 dozen so I'm now the size of a barge.
Gotta eat big and lift big to get big
Don't skip leg day or you will end up with Chicken Legs
Got to think to get smart …. who has enough time to do both
Well done Gaston.
How did you survive that fall?!
question is, how many raw eggs can I eat per day? :)
Cage eggs “break” easier so no deal from me.
who says?
Me
your down vote should be invalid
@RockyRaccoon:
Don’t have to as it’s not part of the guidelines for a negative vote to “prove” something
How else are you supposed to eat it?
like a snake.. swallow it hole .. its not a good feeling when it breaks while you attempt this i guess.
I eat meat, but I always choose the most ethical option when I can. I don't want to tell people what to do and what to spend their money on, but it would be nice if people started to become more aware and mindful of the long-term environmental effects and see the cost of these short-term conveniences.
ethical meat eating is a bit of an oxymoron.
Not saying it's ethical, but it's definitely 'more ethical'.
people love to nitpick! mate, I grew up on a farm and know the whole process of what gets put on the table. 90% of people wouldn't eat meat if they had to rear it and see what they go through before death.
For folks like me, I chose meat and poultry that has at least some form of "care" given to the animal in it's life.
It's more expensive but I'm happy to pay it with the savings I get from being a true OZB
Ahh, the some form of care argument against animals that are bred for their carcasses.
@Filthy-Frankfurt: At the end of the day, they go to the same place: into your belly. Treating them nice and fattening them up for the big day and giving them freedom doesn't mean a whole lot for them in the end.
I have no quarrel with your ethical position. I kind of admire that you somewhat care about the animals you eat. It's cool that you choose to do what eases your conscience, but I don't think it's an appropriate use of a neg vote unless you can find a place that sells Cage Eggs cheaper. If it's to make a statement that cage eggs are bad and any deal for them should be negged, someone else could argue that iPhones are bad and a rip off and neg every iPhone post.
Or let's say a company makes otherwise good products, but the guy at the top is an alleged sexual harasser. Out of protest, you are boycotting all of that company's products and think for ethical reasons you should neg every deal post of that company's products. I don't think that's much different than what you're doing.
Or how about, some video game is on sale on Steam for a new historic low price. You think the game is total garbage and people shouldn't play it. Neg.
Neg it if you think it's not a good price. If you have ethical arguments, leave it for the forums.
I try to reduce my red meat intake only 2-3 days a week. It's better than eating red meat everyday. You really don't have to be a full vegan to help the cause.
more aware and mindful of the long-term environmental effects
It could be argued that cage eggs are better for the environment as egg production per square metre of land is much higher than other means.
This means preserving more natural space, less raw materials to build bigger enclosures, efficient collection of waste, better food distribution resulting in less food needed and so on
I'd imagine egg production per hen would be higher too.
Don’t know there was so many animal activist on OzBargain, it’s amazing how when there’s a KFC deal or Hungry Jacks vouchers I don’t see a single person saying stop the cruelty!
Because that practice isn't in vogue.
Changes in practices have to start somewhere. Rome wasn't built in a day.
So when are you planning on advocating against KFC and Hungry Jacks?
There's a significant ethical distinction between eating beef and eating caged eggs.
Both are bad.
If you look at it holistically and not just at the animal's suffering, then beef is undeniably worse.
Water consumption, land clearing and erosion, emitted green house gases, etc are all much worse for beef than they are for eggs.
I disagree but I've already given up on the environment.
I agree that eating meat (especially beef) is terrible for the environment.
And I would definitely stop eating meat altogether if it wasn't so damn tasty!
Well maybe if there was free-range KFC, it would be the same case hah.
The chicken or cow gets killed only once for its meat. The battery hen is tortured for every day of its life. I would say that's where the difference lies. And yes, the human condition is full of hypocrisy and double standards. That's just the way it is.
Never mind. See garage comment below.
Cows are milked for the rest of their life until they’re killed. Your argument is invalid.
my experience is that mamals that are free to roam and lactating want to be milked as being full of milk with no release are uncomfortable.
lactating cows that aren’t milked would be very uncomfortable…so a machine or a calf … they need to be milked.
Have you ever been to a farm? Battery hens are kept in tiny cages for their entire life. Cows eat grass outside and are not locked in cages 24/7.
my experience is that mamals that are free to roam and lactating want to be milked as being full of milk with no release are uncomfortable.
I know that feel.
KFC are cage free (although very crowded barns, hence they removed free to roam from their web site), the supply chain for beef is streamlined, we grow beef in the open as it's cheaper than a barn, hence most beef is grass fed, grass is cheaper then grain also, and in Australia there are guidelines for the abattoirs (sometimes not adhered to). If you want tender beef, which sells for more money, you slaughter it as stress free as possible … HJ only take part of the animal, they make sure the eye fillet, scotch, etc looks good in the butcher window, so avoid bruising, blood clots, etc as they need to be trimmed (lost $$).
So the supply of beef for HJ follows much of the same supply chain as pristine steak, just HJ use lesser cuts and trimmings … at least waste is minimised.
As they say for pork "use everything except the squeal".
KFC is barn bred not cage. Big difference
Not sure if many know this. It at one particular Asian grocery store in Melb they sell 2 dozen eggs for $2.99 'that's an everyday thing sells out quick first come first serve
They don't always have it like yesterday but
TAT SING is the name (sister store of KFL)
Down voting for ethical reasons with the product - pay a few dollars more (buy genuine free range and not overstocked farms) and the eggs will taste better too! Not to mention the chickens will be happier.
Username checks out.
Wow, so many people get triggered about eggs in this country!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwbbaqkFizg
Because how reward farmers (buy their product) is how we determine their practices (if people pay for it, do it).
If you stop rewarding farmers for caged eggs (don't buy them) then they change their behaviour to remain in business (farm cage free eggs).
It doesn't involve writing letters, or marching in the street, or carrying a plackard, just what you pick up from the shelf.
Except that according to The Checkout, free range eggs aren't much better. We'll just end up paying more for the same shit, like what happened with electricity in Victoria.
Rareish, and goodish, story.
I doubt that anyone even saw comment at the tail-end of other thread, but I'm excitingly early-in on this one! Lol. More fun times on OzBargain.
Great for traffic, though. At this rate, the thread may run fifteen pages…
(Well done, Scrooge. The price is certainly "che…" Italian?)
:-)
Nothing against the OP, great deal but…let's not buy into this form of cruelty guys.
If we all boycott caged eggs then farmers will be forced to stop the process.
Putting a chicken in a cage for it's entire life for the mere purpose of producing eggs is cruelty,
Should we also boycott clothes and electronics made by slaves in third-world countries?
Or do Aussies only care about non-human animals?
Either way, this isn't a valid reason to neg a deal.
aanndd the idiocy starts….
Should we also boycott clothes and electronics made by slaves in third-world countries?
Ok I can provide you a very long answer but given the content of your response to me, i'll dumb it down.
i'll dumb it down
You'll have to dumb this down for me a little more. I do not know why stuff happens and shit.
however refusing to buy Target clothes WILL NOT HELP
How would buying things like New Balance shoes, made in the USA under US working conditions, not help?
If you lift all these up, the Country may exit the poverty line,
But if the country exits the poverty line and the cost of living goes up, won't the US/Western clothes manufacturers then be "forced" to move the manufacturing operations to poorer countries where they can continue to "employ" slaves?
I heard that decades ago, cheap shit used to be made in Japan. But then Japan's GDP skyrocketed and costs went up, so cheap shit started being made in China.
Isn't the only way to stop this, to buy premium products produced under better working conditions?
I'm not referring to "Premium" clothes / iPhones made in Bangladesh / China, but like the New Balance Shoe example I mentioned above.
How would buying things like New Balance shoes, made in the USA under US working conditions, not help?
You answered my point…the notion of cruelty to humans is hard to ascertain given USA is an Advanced Country with certain manufacturing areas just as bad as those in Somalia. Are people there happy or sad?
So you come back to the problem, is it easier to abort Cage Eggs to lift Cruelty to a specific Animal,
Or go on a wild hunt for where your shoe is made, inspect the process plant, survey the people then make an informed choice on whether your purchase has made cruelty to humans worse….I go with the Chicken decision
How would buying things like New Balance shoes, made in the USA under US working conditions, not help?
US law permits products made in the US Virgin Islands to be described as Made On USA. Working conditions there are well below USA mainland standards.
Better not drink milk. Those machines suck the guts out of dairy cows, separating them from their calf. Oh the cruelty.
Switched to soy a while back. Never looked back
Do man boobs make it difficult to turn around?
Better not drink milk. Those machines suck the guts out of dairy cows, separating them from their calf. Oh the cruelty.
There are things we can change with our hands, and others we cannot.
Refusing to buy Caged Eggs will have a drastic (positive) impact on all Australian Chickens when 100% of our nation sells Free Range.
What is the effort? Very minimal, just to select one over the other at the food isle.
Milk on the other hand is consumed by a large population, so hand-milking would most likely result in a nation shortage of milk given there aren't as much Milk-Farmers than Milk Consumers.
So the effort here is to hire thousands of people to start hand-milking which would drive the costs of milk by 500%
At the end of the day, the plight of the cow being milked by a machine is different to a chicken in a cage, why?
Well because the Cow is let loose after milking is done whilst the chicken not.
What is the effort? Very minimal, just to select one over the other at the food isle.
And pay at least 64 % more!
Most people's income is derived from their own effort, so extra would be needed.
@Scrooge McDuck: 64% more?
You're looking at a difference of $1-$2 at max for the Unbranded Free Range like Coles/Woolies.
If someone is having issues sourcing extra $1.40 per week and they opt for Cage then there are larger issues at play here
FR:
https://www.google.com.au/shopping/product/16915349011348366…
Cage:
https://www.google.com.au/shopping/product/11064362156568124…
Others and I consume far more than a dozen per week!
And the other issue at play here is that we don't share your value for the welfare of chickens.
And the other issue at play here is that we don't share your value for the welfare of chickens
Then please don't enter a debate which is aimed at proving animal Welfare for Chickens could be actioned in much less effort than perceived.
You tried to argue the cost and when I came back with facts, your resort is that; who cares, I don't care about chicken welfare.
Congrats for useless comment of the year
Concern for chicken welfare is fundamental to the issue.
A rational consumer wouldn't pay any premium towards an end for which they have no concern.
You're just angry because you couldn't win the debate.
the debate between [idonotknowwhy] and [myself] was centered around the effort it took to resolve 1 cruelty over the other.
My original argument was that I have value for Chicken cruelty and we should boycott cage eggs
[idonotknowwhy] responded with an analogy that we should then stop buying clothes made in impoverished countries if we had real feelings.
My final response was that the effort it took to abolish 1 form of cruelty (like chickens) over the complicated and intertwined nature of what is perceived as human cruelty is much easier with the action of simply choosing 1 brand over the other.
You came at the 11th hour with some rubbish cost estimates being a factor which I proved it was a mere $1.20 for standard choices between Cage and FR.
At the end of the day, if 100% people went this way, Cage Egg farms will be out of business.
So your response was that not everyone shares my value for welfare of chickens.
Chalk n Cheese mate….
I miss life in the states when almost all big supermarkets (Walmart, Aldis, Kroger, Tom Thumb etc) used to sell a dozen eggs for $0.99.
Will it ever happen here? :)
Could happen. Just need an egg-war between Coles and Woolies similar to the milk-wars.
I am with you and never buy cage eggs but I am still not 100% sure whether the free range eggs I buy are really free range!