Sunday, May 19, 2013

An egg for breakfast


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There’s a belief that eggs produced by free-ranging hens come from happy hens. For sure, they’re probably happier than their sisters in cages, but when they become no longer economically viable they go to the same cruel deaths as their caged sisters.
A vegetarian friend of mine, who still eats eggs, reckons she pays three times the price for her free range eggs. And because these eggs cost more to produce, it’s the ‘battery egg’ which is used in commercial food products that contain egg.
Most eggs eaten for breakfast are from caged hens, there are ten million in Australian cages and three billion caged hens world wide.
I shall be interviewing one of these three billion tomorrow.

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