Eggs And Chickens

[lynbrown]

I hate the thought that the chickens and eggs I eat have been badly raised or mistreated. Where can I be sure all are well regulated? What labels can I trust?

[-SharonA-]

They still use the Lion brand for English eggs.

https://www.egginfo.co.uk/british-lion-eggs

[Jackdaw33]

How can you badly raise or mistreat an egg?

[andy-hughes]

Buy them from your local farmer, and if it really concerns you, ask him if his chickens are free to roam.

[bookbinder]

Jackdaw, an egg can be beaten, scrambled, cracked, and nobody raises an eyebrow. If that isn't mistreated, then I don't know what is.

[ladybirder]

Lyn look for the RSPCA Assured logo.
https://www.rspcaassured.org.uk

[ladybirder]

More here Lyn. I always make sure I buy eggs with at least one of these signs stamped on.
https://www.ciwf.org.uk/your-food/know-your-labels/

[Jackdaw33]

Nice one, bookbinder.

[DTCwordfan]

I look for the 'Came out this End' label so you know that it was delivered head first.

[Tilly2]

You mistreat an egg when you boil it alive and then cut it's head off!

Shudder.

[DTCwordfan]

no better than cooking a prawn or shrimp......or boiling/steaming a lobby alive. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.

[gollob]

Have your own chickens. they can almost be like pets and you know that the eggs you get are fresh

[Jackdaw33]

As a very small boy I was once chased by a farmyard cockerel and ever since I have had a phobia of hens. Some may say that that is irrational; all I can say is that being near a hen fills me with alarm.

[jourdain2]

I echo andy-hughs. Buy them from a local farmer (in my case just across the road) or, if you have enough room buy a couple of hens. I used to have hens and ducks in France - they ranged freely and I had one heck of a job keeping them off my veg. patch! Nothing like free-range local eggs from hens you can see. There must be someone near you who keeps hens, surely.

[cassa333]

If it's cheap it probably intensively farmed.

I work on the assumption that the more expensive it is the better life it had before it was killed for my dinner!!