"vegetarian fed" store eggs

[SaltLakeSpice]

Greathorse, I love the idea of voting with your dollars, but unless someone has actually seen the conditions that the animals were raised in, there is no real way of knowing how they were raised. There are such poor definitions for what are essentially marketing terms like "free range" or "organic" or what have you that they are meaningless. So if someone is trying to do what they feel is right by spending their money on "free range" eggs, unless they have seen those chickens roaming around a farm, the only thing they can be assured of by the label on the carton is that those chickens were "given access" to the outside. It doesn't mean the chickens that laid those eggs have ever even stepped foot outside, only that there was an open door where they were being housed.
So while I agree that there is a place in the market for all types of producers, I wish there were more meaning and transparency in the labels that are applied to food products.

 

[Tala]

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True dat.
I buy Tillamook cheese, it doesnt' say Organic or grass fed on the lable, but the website does say that their cows are on pasture for most of the year. I can't verify this myself though, but I used to be on a forum discussing whole foods with someone who vouched that they can drive by and see the cows out on pasture every day.
Again, I can't prove that the person talking online wasn't just advertizing for the brand, but it didn't seem like they were.

I pay a little more to buy their cheese instead of store brand.

 

[greathorse]

I believe I clearly state that I have seen the conditions on many many farms and kill plants, my livelyhood depends on it, and I would submit that I seldom saw conditions that were bad, much less deplorable, and I never saw any instance of animal torture, so it is likely a matter of what we consider deplorable conditions to be.

I see thread after thread with folks capturing their poor chickens sticking them in some kind of diaper and insisting the birds come live in the house with them. I frankly find that treatment of a chicken quite stressful and harmful. I think the intent is good so will not use the word torturous.

It is mostly in the eyes of the observer and their opinion about what good treatment really is.

 

[Tala]

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Obviously your birds don't try to sneak in the house at any opportunity!!
Half an acre of grass and bugs outside, and they want to scour the kitchen floor instead!!!!

They think I'm mean coz for the most part, I insist upon them staying outside

 

[greathorse]

By the same token I have been to many farms where the doors were wide open to the chicken houses and many of the birds chose to stay inside. I suppose we could get the farmers to go chase them outside? You make my point

 

[Want Less]

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