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Jonnyboy

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Posted: Thu May 17, 07 11:16 am Post subject:

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Code Example: 1-UK-1234501

1= Production method (1–Free Range, 2-Barn, 3-Cages, 0-Organic)

UK= Country of origin

12345= Supplier Code

01= Optional identifier for flock, barn etc.

Jonnyboy

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Posted: Thu May 17, 07 11:17 am Post subject:

Welsh Girls Allotment wrote:

No way ! that's the end of that then

You sure? How about a call to local trading standards?

Green Man

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Posted: Thu May 17, 07 11:21 am Post subject:
That explains the 75p for free range eggs then.

Welsh Girls Allotment

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Posted: Thu May 17, 07 11:22 am Post subject:

Cho-ku-ri wrote:

That explains the 75p for free range eggs then.

you got there before me!

I'm off for a little walk to the shop to see what he has to say

gil
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Posted: Thu May 17, 07 11:23 am Post subject:
Not necessarily - going rate for free range eggs round here is 50p/half dozen direct from the producer, so you might imagine that a shop could sell them on for 75p and still make a profit.

Green Man

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Posted: Thu May 17, 07 11:37 am Post subject:
85P per half dozen for large free range eggs (not organic) direct from a registered producer up here in Perthshire. Last edited by Green Man on Thu May 17, 07 11:53 am; edited 1 time in total

bagpuss

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Posted: Thu May 17, 07 11:50 am Post subject:
I have had eggs marked 3 from a farm shop where I saw the hens laying them is there some charge involved with being certified free range?

Green Man

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Posted: Thu May 17, 07 11:52 am Post subject:

bagpuss wrote:

I have had eggs marked 3 from a farm shop where I saw the hens laying them

is there some charge involved with being certified free range?

Perhaps you were lulled into thinking the eggs you bought were laid there, but perhaps they might have been bought in to satisfy demand?

bagpuss

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Posted: Thu May 17, 07 12:03 pm Post subject:

Cho-ku-ri wrote:

bagpuss wrote:

I have had eggs marked 3 from a farm shop where I saw the hens laying them

is there some charge involved with being certified free range?

Perhaps you were lulled into thinking the eggs you bought were laid there, but perhaps they might have been bought in to satisfy demand?

Given you can collect the eggs from the chickens and given the nature of the shop I would be very surprised if that was the case

Green Man

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Posted: Thu May 17, 07 12:15 pm Post subject:
Are they laid with the stamp on?

Jonnyboy

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Posted: Thu May 17, 07 12:20 pm Post subject:

Welsh Girls Allotment

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Posted: Thu May 17, 07 2:45 pm Post subject:

have returned from my fact finding mission

spoke to the owner of the pet shop and asked him did he realise that the eggs he is selling are battery eggs, well he said they are from caged hens he said yes I said battery eggs - they come from a farm he said

as if that was different ?

in all fairness he does not market them as free range at the moment, I bought eggs from him a year or two ago and a local farmer was supplying him, so I automatically assumed he had the same supplier, however the eggs are laid out in a wicker basket on a bed of straw, I appreciate that this is no assumption of origin but it seems immoral to me to present the eggs in this fashion for them to turn out to be in effect battery eggs or am I missing the point of marketing ?

Green Man

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Posted: Thu May 17, 07 3:17 pm Post subject:
You've not missed the point, you have just got it. Supermarkets do this all the time with 'finest' labels etc.

judith

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Posted: Thu May 17, 07 3:18 pm Post subject:
I guess if he isn't advertising them as free range, then he isn't breaking any rules. But the wicker basket business is a very cynical bit of marketing IMO - no better than all those "farm fresh" euphemisms. I suspect the owner was well aware of what he was doing and I would be taking my business elsewhere. Well done for confronting him about it though.

Jonnyboy

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Posted: Thu May 17, 07 3:33 pm Post subject:

judith wrote:

I guess if he isn't advertising them as free range, then he isn't breaking any rules. But the wicker basket business is a very cynical bit of marketing IMO - no better than all those "farm fresh" euphemisms.
I suspect the owner was well aware of what he was doing and I would be taking my business elsewhere.
Well done for confronting him about it though.

Agree on all points

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