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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2012 12:02:34 GMT 1
Just a thought,if battery produced eggs are banned,surely this will force a lot of egg producers down another route of egg production,and if demand increases for free range maybe the price will reduce,they are more expensive now,but not that much more expensive!
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Post by kergotu on Jan 25, 2012 13:33:13 GMT 1
Part of my work is with two of the biggest poultry producers/Cooperatives here in West France.
The guidelines and regulations that were in place regarding (Layers) 2011 were very strict and most breeders I had business with had respected the ruling's. November and December my team and myself cleared out 750,000+ birds from all over Brittany. This was to make way for the new cage system or to convert battery housing in to free range.
As we know, the law changed in Europe 01/01/2012 for battery birds (Layers), bigger cages and less birds per cage. Is this enough?, and at what price?.
We managed before on eggs and egg products, the battery boom started in the early 60's when the governments of the world turned round to the farmers and said. “The population needs more protine in their diet, breed a bird and devise a cost effective system of housing.” Yes it's cost effective, but by no means is it the best way to keep a bird. Yes the price of industrial eggs will rise, so will egg products, and jobs maybe lost. But surely this is a step forward we must take and pay the price.
Things have and are changing here in Brittany, breeders I know off and work with are falling in line with the new rulings, it's a strain on their finances and it give the farmers one more thing to moan about, but I've never meet a farmer who never moans............
I'm under no illusions, there will be a percentage of breeders that can't or wont change, but they can be sure, the powers at be will be watching and will be prosecuting. The public has spoken, and the governments are finally listening.
Now is the time for change. (And Pay The Price).
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Post by Em on Jan 26, 2012 9:40:51 GMT 1
It is all well and good to say pay the price but at the moment the average French or any other EU work is facing higher fuel costs, higher taxes, higher food costs in general app €20-30 per week on an average family shop in france in 12months. But not one wage increase.......... Infact sarko refussed to do the normal thing and increase the CAF payments by the rate of inflation so the average French family would have had €20 extra per month.
Products with egg in is amazing, of course cakes/baked goods, mayonaise and other such sauces, some soups, some ice creams/sorbets, parts of egg are used as binding agents so can be found in processed meat products, the list can be amazing I had to avoid eggs while breast feeding and the products it was in shocked me.
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