Went into Aldi Point Cook town centre store earlier and saw cage eggs 600g down to $2 from $2.69.
Not sure if it's nationwide.
Cage Eggs 600g $1.99 (Was $2.69) @ ALDI
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@[Deactivated]: Wanting to buy eggs from an animal that’s suffered a bit less makes you a do gooder? What would you label yourself then?
@[Deactivated]: A chicken free to roam around and run is suffering less then a chicken that lives its whole life in a cage and then dies in that cage?? WOW.. I guess those people serving life sentences in prison dont have it much worse then us.
A chicken free to roam around and run is suffering less
That's the myth.
Of course your anthropomorphising.
Chickens are people too.@[Deactivated]: Is it? I reckon birds are pretty adaptable, perhaps even to standing on widely spaced wire their entire short lives.
However its hard to imagine their quality of life is better with a prolapsed stomach being common, higher mortality than free range and rather than living a typical 8 year odd life they are egg pumping machines, jammed into cages at 12 weeks, ripped out at 18 months (after peak production passes) and sent for slaughter.
Yeah its a myth….
@hoxygt: have you even been to chicken farms?
I have. My uncle spent 30yrs in the egg industry. SOme of the free range famrs are not better, in fact some are worse then caged ones. He reckons the only free range eggs you should get are the ones you roduce yourself or get from your friends, The vast majority are the mythical idealogical free to roam around like say a dairy cow, they're still caged up, they have a "chicken run" which they can "roam" in. They're still prisoners jammed into a shed. That's just how the farms are.
@vid_ghost: People in prison should be treated worse than any animal cruelty. They get it way to good in my opinion
Which is why it's important to buy from producers that only have free-range eggs so there is no chance of getting a mix…
My wife thinks the same. They taste better.
Cage eggs are waaaay better.
Still cheap.
Cage eggs
Can't believe people actually still buy cages eggs
Cant believe people think 'free range' is actually free range.
I know it's not truely free range but still 1000% better then caged
@PlagueistheCheap: Tightly packed as they may be in some huge shed they still have the ability to move around and spread their wings. There's studies for and against them but I've read the egg it self is different compared to caged.
Personally I just think it's the lesser of 2 evils and as mentioned below if they ban caged eggs hopefully it would improve the production process around egg farming@CoreJava: They don't need to be banned, all we need are sales to continue to fall and the big supermarkets will demand suppliers to halt caging chickens. Once the big suppliers leave - whos left?
@Ti-au: nah mate, people still buy cage eggs by far the most, supermarkets and egg companies are squashing the range because theres higher margins in 'barn/free range' eggs ;)
@DannyBoy: In Bli Bli, on the Sunshine Cost, there is a big shed next door to the fruit warehouse where they house caged chooks. Once they stop laying, they sell the chooks for $2, instead of killing them like other battery chook factories.
I bought one just to save it's life, do a good deed. I called it E.T because it looked like a bloody alien, it had very little hair (because caged chooks lose their hair) Also, that chook was (profanity) in the head, it had never seen its own eggs its entire life, so whenever it laid an egg, it immediately turned around and ate the egg.
After this experience about 15 years ago, I have never bought cage eggs… it is supporting torture.
Free range = chooks under house arrest.
Caged = Chooks in straitjackets, chained to a bed.@JakeyJooJoo: Excellent to know. Maybe it can open the eyes of some people still for caged eggs. I'm no greeny or vegan mindset but surely people can accept the facts for what they are.
@DannyBoy: I couldn't tell you where I read it, but I did see somewhere that the level of omega-3 (essential fatty acids) is up to 10x higher in free-range vs cage eggs. Humans are generally quite deficient in omega-3s (which are anti-inflammatory) and have too much omega-6 (also an essential FA, but inflammatory in high levels).
While I agree that it's unacceptable, the banning of cage eggs does mean that much more land is needed to farm chickens, which is why I have mixed feelings about the recent push to try to legislate for fewer chickens per hectare for free-range. To meet demand, that may not be possible.
The solution might be that caged eggs are banned, and eggs have to cost more as a result. That's fine by me but it would mean that lower-income families then don't get the benefits of eggs in their diet, and currently the cheapest eggs are quite affordable so no one need miss out. There's always a compromise.
The elephant in the room of course is population… but that's a bit harder to legislate…
@Zenyatta: It's up to the government to help the transition. If there was an aid for ever failing car manufacturers in this country where no everyone used or purchased from surely they can help fund the expansion required for better farmed eggs. After all like you said it's part of our diet and consumed by majority of Aussies.
@DannyBoy: This liberal/conservative government cuts money from health.
They hurt not help.
Expecting something positive from the Liberals is like flogging a dead horse.
agreed. i like my chicken to feel the glory of sunlight before i eat their periods
Really not much in taste diff
DannyBoy… Have you ever seen hens from Australain producers after they are taken out after their laying stint? Not the ones shown in photos from other countries… from Australian farms that are RSPCA inspected??
They are in better condition than most backyard chooks!
There is big easy money in making something free range…hens from Australain producers after they are taken out after their laying stint
Hmm, I’d be interested in seeing this. Do you have a link you can sling us?
@Cheeper: I'm not sure what you are referring to, but I can tell you that RSPCA inspected means nothing. That is a complete farce. All chickens, cage or 'free range' are routinely debeaked (which is standard practice). Free range in no way means these animals will ever see the light of day or ever experience fresh air. In both of these practices, male chicks - a waste product of the industry are macerated alive through a shredder. Buying any eggs supports this. I used to buy cage free until I discovered the truth. If you are health conscious, you may want to do some research too - but ensure the studies you peruse are not backed by the egg industries. There are reasons why egg manufacturers cannot legally label these as good for you.
https://mercyforanimals.org/heres-why-the-usda-refuses-to-la…
Choose compassion.
Proof that morals come before an understanding of four and five letter words.
Can't believe people can taste the difference.
It's called the PLACEBO effect.
These people are the same kind that can taste the pollution of Beijing in a bottle of water at the Australian Open.
@[Deactivated]: Wait, seems I taste the pollution of Beijing at the airport. Ahhhh, Air China just opened the door, that explains why!
@[Deactivated]: That's the thing about the Placebo effect.
It doesn't matter to them it tastes better.
Taste can be influenced by compassion?
To me it’s not subtle. Caged eggs have a Sulfur smell and give me gas. Fun fact.
@[Deactivated]: The placebo effect is extremely powerful and can actually trigger physiological responses. Have you done a blind test of cage/free range?
@johnno07: I had 7 chooks and I didn't think the eggs tasted much different to supermarket eggs. The one thing that was different was when you pouched them the white would stay together. Pull the egg out and the water is pretty much clean, no bits of white floating around.
you think that's why people buy free range because of the taste?
I eat a lot of cage eggs everyday.
I buy cage eggs because I eat a lot of cage eggs.
@CoreJava: You should try Free range eggs, then you could buy a lot of free Range eggs.
Problem Solved*
If you pay me the difference between $2 and the price of a carton of free-range eggs, I'll gladly buy free-range eggs.
Until then, better keep believing it.
yikes are you really that poor?
There are plenty who have much less money than you or I.
The point isn't how much I earn or how poor I am, it's about living within your means.
@[Deactivated]: Look at these idiots judging you and other poorer people and imposing their own beliefs and lifestyle onto others.
These people can gtfoForcing someone to conform via force or social pressure sounds awfully familiar like some undesirable governments and societies.
@Daabido: Nice attempt at trying to downplay shitty attitudes and toxic behavior onto other people with less fortunate life styles.
You probably think the poor, unemployed and homeless deserve it
Price?
the poor and restaurants, take away stores.. Cheap bacon and egg rolls ext.
Can't believe people actually complain about what other people buy.
People always complain. Are you new to life??
People always buy according to their own preferences. Are you new to consumption??
Eggs are delicious
Urgh ban these things.
Eggs would become $20/dozen. The worlds demand cannot be met without caged chicken farms.
I know right. The free range eggs are at least an extra buck over the caged.
@[Deactivated]: This is a bizzare correlation. People who eat non-cage eggs are unemployed? Where did you source this?
@[Deactivated]: What a ludicrous suggestion. I would never buy cage eggs, and I’m permanently employed. I have the means to pay an extra dollar, someone living on the dole may not. Control your emotions and try to think logically mate.
And why is being someone who wants to minimise harm a bad thing? Do you just dislike them because you don’t have the time or means to be a better person? Or are you just so self centred that doing anything for the greater good is a totally foreign concept to you? Give it a rest.
Do you just dislike them because you don’t have the time or means to be a better person?
And there it is! You think you are a better person because you eat "free range". Talk about virtue signalling.
@[Deactivated]: I wouldn't buy any eggs and am a well paid professional who has never been unemployed. Wtf are you on?
I genuinely believe that yeah we can't produce enough eggs too, however wiki has some interesting info on prices.
Based on data in the European Commission's socio-economic report published in 2004,[22] (prior to battery cages being banned in the EU) it cost €0.66 to produce 12 battery eggs, €0.82 to produce 12 barn eggs and €0.98 to produce 12 free-range eggs.
Leaving aside that it demonstrates extra cost, any study of agricultural economics in the EU is not useful in the real world because of their tendency to subsidise the shit out of it.
World has changed a lot since 2004. Do you have any stats for 2018?
@LivingOnTheEdge: The world was waiting for the magnificent OS X Tiger to be released, after being announced in June 2004. We were still rocking our eMacs with PowerPC architecture and lapping up the 50 MHz increases announced at WWDC. The iPhone was just a pipe dream and LCD screens were for only the rich.
that seems reasonable. a 50% increase in cost is pretty damn huge
Source for those numbers?
Then let it happen. I highly doubt that is true but if that's the reality then that's the reality. We can't justify caged eggs by saying it would be too inconvenient for us humans.
I thing PlaugeistheBargainer is refering to the fact that a ban would cut the egg supply and demand would push the cost right up.
Remember when bananas were almost $20/kg in 2011 due to supply shortages? Similar to that. It'd take a good year for enough new non-cage farms to pop up.
But yeah, cage eggs could easily be phased out slower to no create a demand bubble.
@PlagueistheBargainer do you represent the egg industry? you mean, it would eat into their profit margins…
Domestic pets don't need to be debeaked to prevent them from killing each other due to the stress of their living conditions.
clearly you have never seen a stray dog or checked statistics on deaths caused by rabies
Cage eggs.