Re: Free range eggs

On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:56:10 +0000, LFS posted:

Peter Duncanson (BrE) wrote:
On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:00:59 +0000, LFS
<laura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

the Omrud wrote:
In article <5uhgajF1hqml9U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
laura@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx had it:

I have just been tidying the fridge (displacement activity: there are
more important things that I should really be doing but don't want to)
and noticed that there is more to free range eggs than I had hitherto
suspected.
Tidying the fridge is housework. Transcribing the contents to AUE is
displacement activity.
The fridge didn't need tidying but rearranging the contents was better
for me than eating them. I count that as displacement activity.

[..]
I think the Morrisons Egg Team must have a budget similar to their
counterpoints in Asda. The box simply states: "laid by hens with
freedom to perch, preen, nest, forage and roam outdoors during
daylight hours".

Sainsbury's marketing budgets are clearly superior. Although I'm
pleased that our egg-laying technicians are free to preen.
I should think that perch, preen, nest, forage and roam just about
covers all possible hen activities, apart from that which is presumably
the most important in terms of egg production.

Eggs are produced regularly whether the hen has been serviced or
not. Eggs sold as food are unfertilised.[1][2]

I understood that the ones with blood spots in, which kashrut requires
Orthodox Jews to reject, had been.

Blood spots signify nothing more than that some blood has got into the
egg early in the formation process.

Most eggs farmed for food are unfertilized, but it really doesn't
matter whether they are or not. They will taste the same.

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WCdnE
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