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Vance mocked for saying eggs cost $4 — while standing in front of a dozen for $2.99 (www.independent.co.uk)

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JD Vance was roundly mocked online over a trip to the supermarket where he bemoaned the steep price of eggs — and botched the photo opp.

The Republican vice presidential nominee stopped by a supermarket in Reading, Pennsylvania, with his sons over the weekend to illustrate how grocery prices have been impacted by “Kamala Harris’s policies” when he claimed a dozen eggs cost $4.

The problem? When footage of the visit emerged, Vance was quickly called out by viewers who spotted the price tag of a dozen eggs behind him was actually $2.99.

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

~~Free range are only marginally better than cages at best.~~

Sorry, I was thinking of what in English apparently is called barn eggs, which is not really better than cages.
Free range is the best condition for chickens. And absolutely what we should buy.
But this production has problems, like chicken pecking each other way more than "good" cage conditions, because they are kept in larger groups. And is still a factory/industry when at a scale which is needed to fill demand.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

US free range and EU free range are not the same by far.

In the US, free range poultry must:

have access to the outdoors for more than 51% of the animal's life

In the EU:

hens have continuous daytime access to open-air runs throughout their lives
the open-air runs to which hens have access are mainly covered with vegetation and not used for other purposes
the open-air runs must at least have 4 sqm per hen, with adequate shelter, drinking and feeding facilities

And that's in addition to different food safety standards that make most US poultry non-importable to the EU.

[–] smokebuddy@lemmy.today 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In Canada there's free range and free run. Free run are the indoor bullshit ones, I bought them a couple of times and the yolks are the same piss-yellow as the cheapest factory eggs. Proper free range are worth the $8 or so a dozen imo, the colour and taste is so much better which must at least mean there are some standards

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Yes there's a huge difference, free range are definitely better in every way, but also more expensive.
They are also more healthy to eat, because they contain essential fatty acids that occur naturally in eggs, but is lost in cheap production with lower quality feed. Stress and lack of exercise are probably factors too.
The more healthy eggs to eat also taste better.