I found a pretty good SMH article about all the different sorts of eggs. Vegetarians eggs are not free-range eggs. No. They are bad.
The NSW Department of Agriculture also has a handy page on what a free-range label actually means. It's encouraging. People can get prosecuted for labelling eggs free-range when they aren't and the regulations are fairly strict.
Those economists/right-wingers/republicans always complain about regulations. But sometimes it offers such a good simple option. Certainly compared to the whole fair-trade mess which isn't regulated. Although I suppose that is complicated by national borders and the like.
The despcription of free range eggs on the Department Primary Industries website is great – the only problem is they don’t enforce it and neither does Consumer Affairs.
Phil Westwood / 6:53am / 22 March 2007
So maybe the solution only looks cheap because they don’t have to employ any inspectors. I reckon from now on I’ll just try to buy them from my vegie coop. Not that I’ll eat them.
Ryan / 1:04am / 23 March 2007