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Wow what a surprise. "I know we said we'd do it but at the time 2025 seemed so far away! Anyway we'll do it in 2030."
What's the bet 2036 rolls around and all of the caged egg people throw a tantrum because they didn't do anything with the two decade warning just like the sheep export people.
Cage eggs are a bit of scam anyway. They are super low quality. They're the kind of thing that you buy become someone else told you to buy eggs and you just went for the cheapest to save money, but the quality is so bad that you'd never actually want those eggs. Like buying 'maple flavoured syrup' rather than actual maple syrup. It's cheaper, but its so much worse that you've wasted your money anyway.
A lot of of the labels on eggs are meaningless as to the welfare of the animals. Cage free eggs are often raised in giant warehouse concentration camps for instance.
Most of these terms are not regulated, I believe the only term that means anything is like pasture raised if I recall, and even that there is a lot of differences as to the welfare of the animals.
"Free Range" is regulated, but the threshold is unusually low compared to other countries.
Pastured or pasture raised is a much stronger standard but as far as i can tell not legally protected.
well, yeah. I mean, it was always Cage and Free Range, so the moment you see companies skirting along with technical classifications like Cage Free, it would be stupid to assume anything other than bad faith.
On Reddit threads about this I volunteered something that I had read about the cage free and other labels being meaningless and a marketing Ploy oftentimes and I got a lot of Engagement by people that knew a lot more than I did that were saying that basically all of those labels are meaningless except for I think the pasture one.
These agricorps are heartless, maximizing revenue is their only concern. As such they have Enlisted the federal and state governments to go after the animal rights activists exposing their abuses of animals that could hurt their profits, working on getting them classified as terrorists as we speak I have read in the intercept.
Everything is going to shit here and almost nobody seems to realize it, not to the degree they should realize it.
We need to organize.
Its true that many of the words used are unregulated. Generally speaking the more specific the better. For example, 'cage free' is very vague - essentially meaningless. But "500 per hectare" is more specific.
Without making yourself an expert in this, it's pretty hard to know what is 'good'. So in the end, it's probably easier to find a reliable trustworthy supplier whose eggs are high quality, and stick with them. (And it probably isn't going to be from one of the duopoly supermarkets.)