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.
wow, the moral high ground in these comments.
So much outraged over caged eggs - people taking the easy route to make themselves feel mildly better?
But you feel okay eating other forms of meat, use animal products, take medicines tested on animals etc etc
The fact is living in a first world country involves some compromises regarding overconsumption. Eating meat, air travel, owning a car instead of cycling or public transport, buying "fast fashion" that is made in sweatshops - they all consumption above basic necessities and contribute to environmental damage and global inequality. It's about finding a compromise you can live with, and I really don't think throwing your hands up in the air and saying "(profanity) it" is the way to go.
I don't eat meat but have no qualms about testing medicines on animals, for instance, and I drive a car which gets 12L/100km.
At the same time, let's not pretend that doing something like refusing to buy cage eggs, small as it is, is the same as doing nothing.
People go up in arms over this. Its not a matter of better than nothing. It seems to be their be all and end all.
my medicines are tested on prison volunteers so that they can get early release …..
The CSIRO animal welfare code of practice recommends no more than 1500 birds per hectare, whilst Australian consumer law states "Free Range" as less than 10000 chickens per hectare. Unfortunately many free range egg brands are much closer to the 10k than 1.5k p/ha and at that density the chickens are very far from being "free". Reality is that while paying extra for "Free Range" eggs might make you feel better about yourself, it does not actually guarantee the birds are held in acceptable conditions. So if you are truly concerned about the chickens welfare, I'd recommend checking out the article below and buy from one that has less than 1500 birds p/ha: https://www.choice.com.au/food-and-drink/meat-fish-and-eggs/…
Choice has released an app for this particular purpose and you can “scan” the carton to check if it meets the above guidelines.
Sunny Farm is one of the brands that meet this code, in case anyone wondering.
Application is called CluckAR
http://newthings.choice.com.au/cluckar/
It's still far better and far more space than what 5 being jammed in a 1ft by 1ft cage
Cage eggs are never a bargain
Why would anyone buy cage eggs? Honestly if you see the conditions those chickens live in you'd be disgraced. For the sake of a couple of $$ don't be a douche… buy free range.
And for me if the chicken isn't healthy neither is the eggs your consuming, I just don't want to eat a product from a dirty unhealthy animal.
if you can afford it, just buy free range.
i buy free range .. used to not care id buy cage if the free range werent on sale… then i saw a truck loaded with chickens that were being transported in tiny little basket things not much higher than a bread trays put on top of eachother… to this day i feel claustrophobic when i think of it.. seriously horrible and this was just to transport from one place to another .. dont want to imagine them being in something similar (even if a little bigger) 24/7.
Been to many cage farms for work (elec) and it's brutality in its finest form.
I eat meat but I still give 2 shits on animal welfare, which for these caged eggs - there's none whatsoever. Think a lot of people would change their purchase decisions if they saw what goes on. But a deal is a deal I guess.
That's what I love about oz - you can have an opinion without being chastized for it.
Next time please take some picture and provide a link here. Imgur allows you to post anonymously.
It's not worth losing my job - I'm sorry but people have already done it.
I wouldn't be providing anything new other than risking my income.
Fair enough. You stating this would for me indicate that there is something to hide (not by yourself but by the operators)
Taking pics at even a completely compliant farm would disgust most people, it legal brutality and cruelty on an industrial scale. There's plenty of pics and details out there to save me describing.
I too worked at a battery egg farm more on the 'hands on side' than a sparky and the things that are normal for a battery hen I could describe would get this post deleted.
and then as an Ozbargainer the fact that the farmer gets about 20% of that $2.80 sucks imo
Not sure why your comment was devoted as it seems perfectly reasonable?
Have you reported it?
did you actually just say you give a shit about animals but you eat meat…. ultimate vegan bait
Not really, I'm a free individual to do what I please. I care about animal welfare and have reared and eaten my own stock.
I treated my own chickens well and also ate them, I see nothing wrong with that.
I don't wish to argue with idealistic folks who haven't had the life experience that I have but simply wish to share my experience.
We need deals for free range to be the same price as caged
Until then, I'm still buying whatever's cheaper
And you sir epitomise the dregs of society.
You're being neg'd for being honest apparently
I tried Free range and caged eggs. Caged eggs taste better
They're larger too.
More delicious hormones :)
Fear is delicious
OP do you even lift bro?
Daily.
Cruelty isn't a bargain
What about breeding animals to sell their carcasses?
Not a bargain either, which is why I don't eat meat. Dairy industry and most commercial farming practices in general are just as bad.
Either way, no need for absolutes; the price difference between caged and free range doesn't justify the conditions which the chickens are forced to exist in. The selfish disconnect and lack of empathy for animals in our society is quite tragic.
I'm a vego myself, however I beleive, you caneat whatever you want, and I can eat what ever I want.
To me it doesn't matter, caged or barn or free range, they kill the male offspring, so they can feed the females to grow for eggs, then after they lay no more, they get killed, so what's the point.
The point is that the quality of life by the hens which are alive are vastly different from caged and "free range". Your reasoning is along the same lines of saying it's okay to torture someone because they're going to experience hardships in their life anyways.
The egg industry is going to be here for a while, the least you could do is not support the significantly worse of two evils for a small financial gain.
I don't understand the logic with arguments in your first comment. Is there an expectation that people are either 100% ethical or 0% Ethical?
What does saying "Well X is bad, but what about Y" achieve?. It doesn't change the state of X in any way. Isn't the best solution for X to work on X?
Edit: I eat meat and I enjoy it and I eat eggs and I enjoy them. Isn't it better for the animals who ultimately are going to die for my appetite to have a decent quality of life up until that point?
@Cubist:
It's about people's high moral ground attitude.
"Well X is bad, but what about Y" achieve?"
"You've been doing good for X, so now can you start working on Y and not just chastise others who haven't started on X? They're not mutually exclusive."
Those who only do X and stop there and berate others are hypocrites and just like to feel good about themselves; they aren't really about being ethical.
@Omitsuki: They are, just to a degree. Eggs are far easier to obtain ethically than meat. Good on them. We are all hypocrites on many things. If being a hypocrite can give a hen a better life, then be a hypocrite. Hen don't care.
Yeah we're all hypocrites. But we all try to hide it and when it's that obvious you can't expect people to not point it out to let them know that their moral high ground isn't that high after all, hence the X and Y question.
Haha. Let's face it, it all comes down to how easy or convenient it is for people to "do the ethical thing". That's why people aren't blabbing on about helping cows, because they don't want to change their eating habits. Whereas with eggs they can pay a bit more to get the more ethical version. Here's the thing though, that amount of money might be very little to most, but to those without income or with low income, every cent counts. People who can afford to pay that extra amount getting on their high horse and condemning those who don't and calling them evil aren't that great themselves. They were just in a position to be able to and it was easy for them.
Would you like it if a large group of people start condemning you for being evil, selfish, unethical for reproducing, contributing to many animals being slaughtered for meat to raise the child? It's pretty easy to not reproduce after all.
So judgemental. Omnivores don't judge you so why judge them?
Why do people care so much, especially when they grind up the males so that they have a female only egg laying population.
Why do people care so much, especially when they grind up the males so that they have a female only egg laying population.
I'm surprised to see this on a bargain site as well.
I must have missed some kind of media brainwashing campaign or something.
Only reason I clicked in here (don't really care about saving 30c on eggs) was to see why the 9 negs on a pretty boring deal.
These aren't even valid reasons to down-vote according to the policy on this website.
If people aren't happy with the situation, they're welcome to comment here. They're welcome to offer to subsidise free range eggs for us, etc. Such comments without a negative vote on the deal are actually getting positive responses.
I bet half the fast-food / burger joint deals don't use free ranged eggs. Maccas only started doing it at the end of last year, and some of the down-voters have previously up-voted those deals.
mc donald’s have been working on cage free egg supply change for a number of years, they just fininished the transition late last year ….. they needed to make sure their suppliers transitioned also to ensure supply and that took a number of years.
And I'm sure maccas would use the most ethical and expensive free range egg farmer.
You need to make chicken nuggets somehow.
Ex layers they say ;)
I see cage egg and gun deals and I automatically neg.
there you go, please have my last downvote for today.
Why with gun deals?
Invalid use of neg surely.
All the Negs (ethical reasons) are invalid in this deal.
HT POULTRY in Noble Park is cheaper. Not a bargain.
I should post a deal about a gun that shoots caged eggs…
I was thinking exactly the same thing!
It could be made from PVC pipe. Might need to freeze the eggs before firing.
Or make an egg launcher that spawns smaller explosive eggs like an MIRV.
We could call it the Fluster Cluck.
OP, be honest with me, did you know you were starting WW3 when you posted this?
No, I expected to cop all the flak personally.
I didn't even know such flak was would occur. This is an eye opener, I'll be more discrete next time I shop at coles as I don't
maintain a muscular physique
and it looks like most of these people have no issues with causing harm to fellow humans!
Oh no, many of them don't!
Apallingly, some wouldn't even mind if every last man, woman and child on Earth was killed:
I have no particular affinity for my own species. The world is grossly over populated and we are trashing it at a great rate. If every human being, myself included, was painlessly wiped out tomorrow I wouldn't have a big issue with it. However, whoever did it would also have to take all the non biodegradable mess we have created with them and probably the animals that are dependent on us for survival - rather than letting them die a slow painful death due to starvation.
The earth would then reclaim what we left behind and evolution would be off and running again. In a cosmic scale we are a short nasty blip.
They're misanthropes — they want to bring about the halt, reversal and destruction of human development.
You must've had a very negative and uninspiring upbringing to develop such a self-loathing outlook.
It's actually a quote by comedian Bill Hicks. Thanks for your assumptions on my upbringing though.
So why didn't you indicate that with quotation marks or italics? Did you intend to take credit for someone else's work?
You made a statement as though it was your own and now you're flipping the responsibility back to the original author.
I just thought it was fitting considering the previous comments. Don't get your panties in a twist.
Don't get snarky because you missed a very well known reference.
I didn't get snarky, but that's the very same adjective I used to describe the other chap. Do you have a problem with your working memory or is your vocabulary just that limited?
If you quote someone without qualification, as in this case, you either support the quote or you use it ironically. There was no indication of the latter, and this chap tried to back out of the former.
The thing about references is that you don't have to quote them, you write them and people get a chuckle out of them.
That's why they are a reference, not a quote, and unfortunately for you, it went over your head this time :S.
Fair enough.
I'll give people less credit in future — when they say they made a quote, they might mean a reference.
Don't get salty because something went over your head. Need to learn to back down when you are clearly in the wrong.
I feel it’s sad when we can’t have a civilized difference in opinion about deals and result to attacking each other’s view.
I’m sure there are lots more ppl on here that share one or the other point of view but won’t comment as they can’t be bothered “fighting” with childish responses.
We need to accept the following: “we agree to disagree”
Love :)
It simply comes down to a difference in values.
@ahara:
You are breaching the guidelines of this site, by casting a negative vote for ethical reasons. There's nothing civil about that.
LOL (lots of love) ;)
Mate, I’m talking about the comments and personal attacks some ppl here unleash against each other. I provided my argument for casting a negative vote further at the top.
Please read it and go troll someone else
say no to this cruelty, no price is worth it
Sorry but as a chicken owner this upsets me. I'm not a vegan or anything but just knowing all these chickens are cooped up and never get sunlight, and people happily support the practice just to save a few dollars… sigh. Animal cruelty isn't a bargain.
A few dollars goes a long way for my family, that's why I frequent this site
Well enjoy affordable eggs while you can. Looks like we'll be forced to pay more or do without to make these rich snobs feel better:
http://www.theguardian.com.au/story/5243485/aust-caged-egg-b…
I use the money saved to buy a better quality egg (free range) and a decent quality of life for the hen.
This is a good price, but still not quite as good as Costco if you happen to have a membership.
The good ole Caged egg war.
All the other inhumane things happening around the world to humans.. That's perfectly fine.
But Caged eggs… Now that's too far.
Always cracks me up.
I cannot help but smile and remember ozbargain everytime I grab the cheapest possible homebrand eggs. Caged of course.
It's like you can feel the terror generate inside all the down voters here.
When I hear the word "cage-laid", I reach for my Isa Browning.
Having a conscience is too egg-spensive……
Is virtue-signalling a valid reason to (n)egg?
No, but it sure is popular!
How many people negging this deal actually pay for free range chicken and meat???
crickets
…thought so
I think "free range" is a scam. It means nothing. But I do pay a small premium for "barn laid" eggs in the hope that it achieves something.
I'm not totally against caged in principle, but in practice they are horribly over-crowded.
And by the way, meat chickens are never kept caged.
I grow my own eggs
Like dog eggs?
Mine take much more effort
Try psyllium husk. :)
Not if costs keep rising.