Any one stopped buying battery hens and eggs?!
Answers: Since the programes on tv with Hugh Fernley Whittingstall and Jamie Oliver showed how they are reared
In all fairness I don't think it will have that big an impact on the sales figures.
It's all well and good for TV chefs to get on their high horse about this issue but the cold hard fact of the matter is that not everyone can afford to buy free range. Battery farms and intensively reared chickens are a product of the modern age and have come about for a valid reason. We do not live in Dickensian England anymore where the poor remained malnourished, now thanks to the said offenders people on limited incomes can afford to feed their family well. As for those who may say the difference is a couple of quid, this could be the difference between having chicken with Veg or just chicken on it's own if you take into account that some people will be feeding families.
Whilst I am aware that there is a cruelty issue we have to remember why these birds are here in the first place. They were bread purely to be slaughtered for food. And as Hugh Fearnly Wittingstalls program demonstrated, any bird which appeared to be underdeveloped, or in pain was instantly culled.
It's a harsh reality of the modern age. I don't think it's as black and white as the TV chefs make out, there are a number of factors which they do not consider, such as what I mentioned earlier.
I personally would like to see a show where these celebrity chefs went to live with a limited income family for a week and actually saw how very little some people have to feed so many mouths. Maybe then they will understand why the intensive farming methods came about in the first place.
As for me personally I think it is down to personal choice and what people think they can afford, in an ideal world we would all be eating free range, unfortunately this world is far from ideal.
Long before the chefs jumped on the bandwagon. I buy free range eggs but the price has gone through the roof - now ￡1.38 for 6 at Morrisons!
Not me, have you seen how they rear free range hens it is just as bad.
No,free range eggs are so blood y expensive ￡1.88p for 6,compared to 60p battery.If i was getting Jamie Oliver or Hugh's' money i wouldn't need to buy battery though.
stopped along time ago, free range is much taster.
But if you have a small food budget it would be difficult.
I'll never buy them again,that program really made me think .The selling of them should be banned right away!
Even if you stop buying them. What do you think the bulk food producers put in cakes and other recipes calling for all or parts of egg.
I made my own mind up before Jamie & co came on the scene. Free range taste so much better as well as being more humane for the chickens.
No it has not changed the way I eat,plus as I know a couple of chicken farmers who rear chickens in sheds and battery hens ,they are not all as badly treated as was made out in the programme,plus if it means paying less for the same thing I will continue eating as opposed to paying nearly double or three times the amount for so called ''organic'' chicken etc
yes after the show i started buying free range aggs, and i must say the taste is way better, and not as watery as standard cheap eggs
never did buy them
isn't always the case...battery not included.
yes, and i wish i can have some my own hens and eggs. tastes totally different,but the landlord is stubborn to allow it, lol
yea eva since that tv show about that guy who kept his own battery hen farm....eugh. it makes me wanna hurl
i only eat beef n lamb
No, But I don't approve of the cages.
Have never bought theese.
Didn't buy battery before, always free range - because they've been reared in a more natural environment and haven't been artificially encouraged to put on weight they taste better.