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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (6 children)

They're cage free/organic. Those are always more expensive.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Do people in the US buy caged eggs?! In the UK free range is almost a ubiquitous minimum.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The US is horrendously backwards on animal welfare.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

And human

And healthcare

And literary everything

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Not organic, and cage free < free range < pasture raised

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

... < just not eating eggs

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

cage free is better than nothing, but if it were organic it would say so and not just cage free I suspect. I'm not even sure they're free-range, maybe they're just all in a barn with no access to outside fields?

even if they were ecological, to me that seems expensive

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

People eating caged eggs in 2025??

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Yeah. Complaining about the cost of top shelf eggs is kinda disingenuous.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I don't know what cage free means but I do know it's marketing speak designed to tempt me away from free range. Not buying it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

no, it's an actual term. 1-1.5 sqr feet per hen in the egg-laying facility https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/HB20-1343

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago

So they're free within their 1ft square.. As i said, marketing bullshit designed to confuse. Fuck that shit.