Sleep team reports:
When I buy a carton of free-range eggs that is what I expect to be cracking, however, 30% of eggs labelled ‘free-range’ are not.
Penalties for slapping the free-range label on when it is false, exists in straight forward cases, when the farmer knows the eggs were out of a cage.
The model code of practice, for the Welfare of Animals, states that acceptable housing density of free-range birds must be 1500 per hectare. However, while this practice is unenforceable under law in most places, in the past two years, two Australian companies have been fined $50,000 for incorrect labelling.
So, there is being a crackdown on what labelled free-range eggs are really free-range, but we still have to ask ourselves, when we are choosing a carton of eggs, did the chicken really lay the egg whilst free?
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