Why did my father buy organic, free-roaming, vegetarian whole eggs?!
Answers: The labels say, its organic, its free-roaming, and its vegetarian compatible. What I mean is they are using plastic egg trays to hold the eggs, if they give the trouble of giving the hens a good nesting area, why they using plastic? A petro made material that isn't bio-degradable. The brand name is disclosed.
I hate those cartons. They are hard to open and are (ugh) plastic.
unfortunately the eggs within were probably not worth the extra price. I have a real hard time with feeding hens a veg diet. Chickens, if allowed to roam around on pasture, will eat all sorts of insects, small rodents, reptiles, etc.. anything that they can eat before it eats them basically.
If your Dad wants truly great eggs buy direct from the farmer who raises pastured hens fed organic feed. If you can find a farmer who raises heritage (vs hybrid) breeds even better.
The organic factory farmed hens are not caged and they are offered a small door to an area that is out side but don't make the mistake of picturing thousands of hens roaming on green pastures all happy and hen like. that is not reality of organic egg factories. The reality is they are in a big barn with thousands of others with access to the outdoors but likely know access to pasture.
Your father is probably buying those eggs because the living conditions are more humane for the chickens. Also even though the company sells higher quality eggs they have to present the food in a more attractive way to increase sales.
I agree that your father is buying the eggs because the chickens laying them are treated well and are not force-fed and kept in little cages all their lives. As for the plastic egg trays, the only thing that I can think of is that they don't really have to be bio-degradable if they are plastic. Perhaps your father bought with the idea that the containers could be recycled? The eggs we buy come in plastic containers here and we place the container directly in the recycle bin when we finish the last of the eggs.
What are vegetarian eggs? All eggs are vegetarian.
Vegetarian is simply a diet. Unless you plan on eating the tray, it's irrelevant.
Why did your Dad buy it that way? Because he's got a better handle on what vegetarian means than you do.
Good point, I think it's because he's thinking about the chickens, not the planet.
I think it's great that he's buying free-range eggs, the next step for that company is using recyclable trays for them! Woohoo!
why can't you just say thanks for the eggs instead of making such big thing about the tray????? It
it's not enough thay he bought organic eggs, now he has to worry about the tray too? What's next, he should watch each step carefully from the store in case there are ants he might step on??Plastic is not biodegradable but recyclable nowadays by the way... And are you sure it's real plastic?
Organic means no chemical pesticides or fertilizers.
Free roaming means the chickens were not confined.
Vegetarian means the chickens were fed a vegetarian diet.
None of those three have anything to do with plastic.