Aldi's Free Range eggs

Taken from :
http://jonaweinhofen.tumblr.com/post/22653697094/what-is-wrong-with-eating-free-range-eggs

- 'free range' hens and battery hens both come from the same hatcheries

- chicks at these hatcheries are debeaked either by laser or hot knife at 1 day old

- chicks are roughly sorted by hand and male chicks are either gassed or thrown into a blending machine due to being useless for egg-laying or food

- many free range chickens are still kept in cramped conditions, sometimes still indoors with a small open door for ‘allowing them to roam’ which they often don’t or can’t.

- free range hens are classed as ‘spent’ (when they can no longer lay eggs) after 18 months and slaughtered, not left to live out the rest of their natural lives

- both free range and battery hens can be force molted (intentionally starved to shock their body into another laying cycle)

Free range eggs will always be cruel. This is taken from another thread: What's wrong with free range eggs?

I agree with Veggie Veronica.

Like with eggs that are Battery, Free Range eggs contain cruelty, pain and suffering of hens that laid them.

If you asked in what conditions my chicken live, they live in good conditions.

They are digging in ground, taking dust bath, and lay eggs. They were born not to live in cages and in suffering, but to be loved. Even if they stop laying eggs, they won't be killed and eaten, as chicken food was taken off of our plates due that we love them.

Their eggs are cruelty free.

P.S-Check out my thread:My Chicken to learn more about them.

I'm not entirely sure about Aldi's ones, but there are two that my family use that I have researched intensively that woolies sell, Manning Valley and Mccleans Run. Both have a minimum requirement of space and I have a friend that has visited both facilities with prejudice view expecting the worst and leaving extremely impressed. Be very careful with eggs that suggest "Hens have access to free range pastures". This essentially means barn laid with a small door which most don't even get the chance to get to due to over population.

http://www.vegantasmania.com/2011/12/interview-with-ex-factory-farm-worker.html

Thanks for your reply! I'll keep a look out for those brands at Woolworths. Im glad to hear that these companys are among the better ones out there

Unfortunately there is no hundred percent way to confirm the welfare of free range hens without contacting the company and requesting footage or a visit of the farm with a specified statement of their mandatory operations on the hens.
There is also a dark side to the egg industry as previously mentioned,
they are all bought from the same hatcheries where it is standard to grind or gas alive any male chick which is identified by a different shade of yellow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCBtkVSk3OU This video consists of Jamie Oliver demonstrating at a gala dinner the process of gassing chicks.

If you and your family insist on eating eggs, your best bet is to request visiting the farm, or finding close friends, family or people you can visit to purchase home eggs from.
Or even better, look into rescuing battery hens, giving them the opportunity of a second life, and they will happily produce eggs for you and your family for a long time!

I only buy family homestead available at coles. Cost twice as much but have very low density per hectare and never debeak. Check out their website.

good on you, and  family homestead don't kill their hens ether, they have a dog, and they hope their hachery stops killing the male chicks as well!!!  


of coarse the BEST eggs you can have is ones from your own pet chooks.

Free range they maybe under the certification of what Free Range sits. However, I have concerns about the eggs and the chickens. Recently when using the eggs I have had 4 dozen which have contained predominantly double yolk eggs. This has me concerned these hens are getting hormones to make them lay. This is of concern to me .