Eggcelent Value!
1 Dozen Eggs for 99c at Earth Markets at Burleigh on the (rainy…) Gold Coast.
1 pallet in stock. Max 3 dozen per person. Not sure on the Exp. Date.
Expiry date is 15 May 2013. Caged eggs.
And everyone loves an egg joke..
Q. Why does a chicken coop only have 2 doors?
A. Because if it had 4 doors it would be a sedan!
Lol.. Have good weekend!
Gees, not even a joke in the description can lighten the do-gooders.
Don't get me wrong, I'm totally against animal cruelty, but when a bargain about anything cheap goes up, no-one gives a stuff about how the workers get treated that make the product so cheap.
But when an animal is involved…..
I agree at these price how are the chickens treated.
A worker has rights and choices while chicken or animals do not. They live in horrible conditions e.g. caged eggs. Do they have a choice no it up to there keepers how they are treated.
Just a question if you where a chicken would you like to be locked up in a cage for the rest of natural life or free in the open.
It might be bargain but is it really worth the saving.
"A worker has rights and choices while chicken or animals do not."
not exactly equating humans with animals… but ask the locals here who lost jobs which got shipped overseas.
the other thing about the animals we eat as food… they no longer can exist in the wild and will surely go extinct once we stop eating them altogether (eg. ban on chicken, chicken gets culled or released to the wild, great, where do they live now? they will just be snake food. think about the impact on ecology too.).
if you want to save a species, declare it as food, you'd be sure businesses will breed and ensure they live and reproduce.
A worker has rights and choices while chicken or animals do not.
That's not entirely true. If you had the choice of starving and eventually dying or working in horrible conditions just to make ends meet which would you choose?
they no longer can exist in the wild and will surely go extinct once we stop eating them altogether….HUH??
Ever heard of animal instincts? My dog lives with us his whole life yet he is still able to hunt, find food and defend himself.
Also 1 chicken will feed a snake for a long time and i highly doubt there is as high a population of snakes as the rate a chicken can reproduce…
Your whole theory is flawed…
sure, we farm dogs to eat do we?
animal instincts? do you even know what you are even talking about?
please come back with a stronger argument than animal instincts when we are talking about a domesticated pet much less animals that has been selectively bred as food.
/facepalm.
and this is besides you missing the point by an entire planet's distance.
I'm sure half the chinese workers from the other bargains on here aren't allowed to speak either. I think thats the point he was making.
My thoughts eggsactly.
+1 for the eggcellent pun
'eggscused' for being easilly impressed…
Caged eggs.
Thx, but at 8.33 cents a-pop it think it's something I'll forget.
Would be good if you could clarify if these are Cage eggs or not? I'm a do-Gooder as I avoid cage eggs.
not sure free range eggs are really the end game. I've seen the videos and who's to know how many chickens there are per square meter. It could be like a nightclub. which is better, but still horrible treatment.
I wonder if they sold eggs in coles where the chickens could roam around free in grasslands for miles around, how many people would be willing to pay the cost. curious.
Holy crap this is more fun then I thought.
Did you take control of the camera?
Great find,Wonder if they would send post
Possibly, but they would need to mark the parcel "Handle Like Eggs".
Cage Eggs!!..I wonder how the stores get away with selling them..Animal Cruelty..I wouldn't even go near them and would appeal others to avoid them for the sake of those poor birds. Moderators please don't allow such posts.
Hopefully cage eggs are on their way out. You can certainly see the large shift towards free range/cage free in the big supermarkets and that's a good thing. I'd never buy caged these days unless there was no other option.
I used to work at the largest egg producer in Australia. I can assure you no matter what brand (home brand/pace/sunny side) or label (caged/free range/barn) they all come off the same factory line.
If you look at the RSPCA definitions for what makes a caged bird vs free-range bird it's almost the same (something like max 6 chickens per 1/2sqm cage for the cage birds and max 4 chickens per 1/2sqm cage if you want to call the eggs "free-range"). So the company made ALL the chickens fall under the "free-range" definition because it was cheaper and easier to do that then separate the eggs
I should note that there ARE genuine free-range eggs producers out there, but you won't find them on Coles/woolworths shelves. Sometimes your local grocer/butcher/chicken shop will sell them
agree, watched a documentary on that a while back.it's all marketing because these chicken under more or else the same conditions no matter the label they put in the supermarket
I find that hard to believe in general. You're saying that the eggs in the "caged-egg" cartons are the same as the eggs in the "free-range" and "cage-free" cartons? If all the eggs meet the nominal "free-range" standard, why would the largest producer in Australia sell any eggs as "caged" when they will attract a lower price?
I did find a couple of interesting stories regarding this.
http://www.smh.com.au/environment/animals/freerange-egg-defi…
http://ideas.sydneyoperahouse.com/2013/new-definition-for-fr…
Was that an Australian program?
It's not about selling "cage" eggs at a lower price, it's about selling "free-range" eggs at a higher price
"It's not about selling "cage" eggs at a lower price, it's about selling "free-range" eggs at a higher price"
If they can sell them all as "free-range" at a higher price, why would they sell any as "caged" at a lower price?
Basic economics. People will only pay more for a product if there is a perceived difference in quality. If all eggs were branded "free-range" they would have to sell them all for $2.99 (not sell them all for $4.50)
Look I worked there 5 years ago so things could have changed (but I doubt it). I watched the factory floor stop, change carton packaging and then restart. Saw it hundreds of times
"People will only pay more for a product if there is a perceived difference in quality."
Generally I agree but there are other factors like not supporting unethical production or manufacturing. I would hope that with all the publicity over the last 5 years that your old place of employment would have changed quite a bit by now. Certainly there was not 40% of sales going to "free-range" products 5 years ago.
aparte did basic economics, +1 for common sense
Actually you're wrong. Woolworths macro organic eggs hold the organic certification (can't remember the number but you can look it up) which requires much stricter conditions than RSPCA. If you can't get your eggs from a known local good free range farm then these are an alternative.
It's not entirely black and white. According to this Macro website: http://www.animalwelfarelabels.org.au/index.php/products/ite… the standards they are required to meet are the FREPA ones here: http://www.frepa.com.au/standards/meat-standards/
And to meet FREPA's "Free-range organic" definition yes they need to have access to an area on which to range during daylight hours, but there is still some treatment which true-animal welfare activists would consider questionable:
I'm not trying to play devil's advocate here, but consumers really need to stop blindly believing packaging labels.
At the end of the day all that matters is what makes you feel warm and fuzzy inside, and for me that's cash in my pocket - not Coles'
I definitely agree with you about blinding accepting labels but actually that link of yours is to Macro free range chicken not eggs. The eggs actually hold the Organic certification which is different again and that's the one I meant has the stricter standards.
When you go through around 50 eggs a week you appreciate buying cage eggs
"I wonder how the stores get away with selling them"
They put a price ticket on them.
@getsetsan
no, stop eating eggs altogether, so with less demand, they don't have the pressure to produce the eggs.
this is ozbargain, not hippybargain.
i'm sure you'd volunteer yourself to be as vocal when it comes to Bonds underwear and the like posts. Seeing that you should put fellow humans welfare first. otherwise, it's just plain self-righteous hypocrisy.
I don't get the fuss, society kills animals and eats them, surely that comes under animal cruelty?
Not the same thing.
The discussion here is around the cruelty of living day after day in conditions of torture.
living day after day in conditions of torture.
So you're talking about living in Oz under the Gillard leadership, right? ;)
I guess that has some truth also :)
yes, absolutely. thats why I dont eat meat. not sure what everyone else's excuse is.
Interesting that the eggs are only 500gm per dozen. I don't remember seeing such a small average weight before.
actually thats the normal weight I was familiar with about 3 decades ago. Same thing with chicken meat, nowadays they look like small turkeys… all pumped up like some of those dudes at the gym.
Correct weight at Burleigh.
Retailers will argue people are buying cheaper eggs online from overseas!
Might as well gray import the eggs from Kogan.
Why not, we already have the ham (Kogan himself).
geez these are cheap!
If this was a bargain advertising a product made by tortured slaves it'd probably get neg'd to oblivion…
Sure, this is cheap… but the price placed on the animals made to produce it makes it NOT a bargain to me.
Then I hope you don't own any clothing or electronic gadgets that are produced in China by underpaid and overworked labourers, because what you just said implies you are not a consumer of goods that have been produced in unethical ways…
Completely agree Scrimshaw. I bet they like to wear their nike shoes that are produced by children who have no choice on whether they work or not
I know some people who earn $4-$6 an hour working in Asian restaurants here in Australia. They can't speak English and has no choice. And with that type of income, they have to rent 2 bedroom apartment with other 8-12 people. Not much different from Chickens I think.
either way, caged eggs or not, I think we have bigger problems in the world to worry about rather than the welfare of chickens.
Capitalism, ho!
You guys will have egg on your faces when the noble chicken race revolts & turns the tables on their human opressors!
I, for one, will welcome our mighty chicken overlords! :)
"I think we have bigger problems in the world to worry about … "
But there being bigger problems doesn't mean that no-one should look out for the lesser problems. As a consumer, I can try to be informed and make purchasing decisions based on my beliefs and ethics. I can't do anything about button pushing in North Korea, but I can contribute (or sponsor) to help a problem like African starvation. Having concerns for the bigger problems does not mean that the smaller ones should be ignored, that's just a cop-out argument for some people to justify doing nothing at all about anything.
Please provide me with the paperwork that shows the chickens signed up for it…
I realise this is ozbargain where most people want to save money regardless of the situation. If there was a family store which put up an ridiculously incorrect price on their website half of you would order even if you know it would put them out of business. But hey, first world problem, they've still got it better than someone in the world right?
Agreed
Haaaha Kogeggs…
They're chickens. Put on earth to provide us with food. Their are much bigger issues out in the world, so many of you are worried about how chickens are living.
It's always good that some people care about various living beings. It helps to balance out the people that care about little except themselves.
First world problem. The human living standard here is so good that the people start worrying about chicken living conditions. Mean while in Africa, a lots of people can't even afford cage-egg.
So what are you saying? If there are bigger problems elsewhere, all other lesser problems should get no attention? Or are the cage-egg buyers in Australia using the savings to donate to African Aid organisations?
Your word for the day is triage…just sayin'! ;)
If I understand your point, (the hospital) must pay attention to the person with the gunshot wound over the person with the broken arm. When the gunshot victim is stable, only then does the broken arm get attention.
That's fine where the demands are placed on the attentions of the same person or group of people but that's not the case here. What world class problems are you tackling that would prevent you making ethical purchasing decisions?
What world class problems are you tackling that would prevent you making ethical purchasing decisions?
Poverty…my own! Let's not forget a little healthy apathy as well. :p
When ethical options are even close to price-competitive, I'll give them a thought…til then I'm afraid I intend to be somewhat more pragmatic. I make no apologies for being egocentric.
Fair enough :)
That's a bit different to the comments I was responding to that were disregarding relatively "smaller" problems because there exists bigger problems somewhere in the world and using that as an excuse to disregard "smaller" problems even though no part was likely being played in resolving the "bigger" problems.
There's no right or wrong answer here IMHO, every person has their own moral priorities…kudos to you for speaking up for what you believe in.
" …. every person has their own moral priorities …. "
You're right there. Try saying something here negative about the evils of Price Matching at Officeworks and you'll see some interesting things :)
I'm guessing you are also of the view that we shouldn't discuss the prospect of same-sex marriage, etc because it's a 'first world problem'
wow… the bargain…
eggs all day…
cage eggs, palm oil, weird how such small things in life can divide the nation…
Was thinking exactly the same thing.
yes. But what we get when you mix a Swine flu +Bird flu taste together. Such thread? :p
If all eggs were branded "free-range" they would have to sell them all for $2.99 (not sell them all for $4.50)
! http://manningvalleyeggs.com.au/free-range-cam/
Thanks for the link, that certainly seems like free-range!
FFS, everyone whinging about the caged eggs, just buy 3 dozen and egg the shop. That'll teach them.
people like you are not helping. The chicken were sacrificed and your way of respect is to waste the very food they provide? wow. ..just wow.
Hmm… complain about the sacrifice of the chicken… but + the deal?
That's just wow in my book.
I think you've missed the point there, the statement was not complaining about the sacrifice of the chicken, more the lack of respect for the sacrifice that has been made so that we have food to eat
*woosh*
i guess that's double wow from me.
I can only imagine the reason for these being so cheap is that we're mostly moving to better condition egg sales. To be honest, free-range eggs are pretty damn cheap for 6, even the major retailers have their own free-range versions, it's driving costs down!
Whoops, double post!
Egg on my face!!!
This thread eggstinct?
This thread eggs stink.
Last Year I saw a Hilton for chickens in a 3rd world country lol.
The owner lived in a tiny thatched roof hut and slept on a mat.
The chickens had a huge area outside and their massive indoor barn.
Yet this poor bastard would probably be lucky to have gotten 50 cents per dozen
I hate to think how these chickens are treated.