Why must someone have to be intellectually challenged to prefer to get their food from hens that don't live in their own sh*t and spread disease amongst a hugely overcrowded living space and a hen that suffers for its entire thankfully brief life?

I don't think that makes those that are bothered by such things, 'intellectually challenged'.

Quite the contrary.

But congratulations on being a mega troll.

Great deal for the sociopaths among us who have no conscience or empathy!
Fill your boots and remember not to spend that 50p saving all at once!!

I think that buying these to feed a family is acceptable but it doesn't cost much more to buy eggs that don't involve such cruelty. I would rather go without. I will never buy cheap eggs. the longer people buy these the longer such suffering will continue. Hens are workers that are doing a job in giving us eggs. would you agree with such working conditions. .. I think not. So why accept it just because its an animal.

Hot ! but be prepared for the intellectually challenged worrying about free range.

I buy only barn eggs from Sainsburys which are 1.25 for 15 eggs. The size is decent and at a comparable price.

It is common sense which is lacking in you.

Still trying to bolster up your point with lies, lies and dam lies.

It appears what you said actually applies to you. I have said what I have seen in supermarkets. Unless you eat 1 egg in a week buying 30 eggs is not a strange thing people do. It appears you stay in a area where there are no families and shop every alternate day.

Some people will say anything to try to prove a point, I bet I have been shopping more than you and have never seen anybody buying two packs of 15 eggs at all.

Do you really think your comment is right ? I have seen many people buying couple of trays of 15-pack. They would have purchased a 30-pack tray if available. For a family of 4, buying 30 eggs together is not a lot unless you want to visit the supermarket every other day for your breakfast.

And what I say is that people who buy free-range eggs are not the sort of people who buy eggs in trays of 30 thus making it uneconomical for the suppliers. Just because one person wants that size does not mean that others do.

That is what I mentioned in my comment that as long as somebody is not sacrificing the margins we will not see large pack sizes and for families buying eggs in 30-pack trays will only switch once we have free range eggs in 30-pack tray.

I meant the bit about large pack size for free range eggs, was it that hard to work out?

I really doubt that is the case. People who stay near a farm have shared much lower free range/organic egg prices from farm which have never been replicated in supermarket pricing - so somebody is benefiting and unless these margins are lowered I doubt a mass switch from battery eggs.

People make all sort of comments about how good free range or organic ones are, but I have never seen a comment on why these are not available in large pack sizes. With my son on a restricted diet (Gluten, Dairy, Soy-free) I use a lot of eggs for his protein intake and would have switched to free range ones permanently if they did a 30-pack. With smaller pack sizes, the price difference tends to be huge especially on the organic ones which are only available in 6-pack..

I have for many years only ever bought free range, yes there was new regulations for colony birds, but still they are beak to bum crammed in like living in a festival crowd, but wether "barn" or "colony" stuck inside they don't see daylight, nor are they allowed a natural body clock of seasonal day and night to keep them in constant lay, at least free range get to roam and forage and eat bugs and plants as that is a part of the free range diet. However they all get culled at 18 months old when they are classed as "end of lay" meaning they may not guarantee to produce 1 egg a day.

As it stands i will be rehoming 7 exbattery hens this weekend with help from the british hen welfare trust. These are due for slaughter this weekend now they have reached that age. Theres also a farm near with 4000 being sold @ £2.50 each from the farmer, however many remain will go for the chop.

Do yourselves and these birds a favour, look into chicken keeping and rescue the poor birds instead, they are likely to keep on laying for years to come and make great pets...eggs, no more bugs/slugs in your garden & the added bonus of being excellent pets. (if i wasn't being serious indeed it would have been "eggxcellent pets")

No one much seems to care where the eggs to make pre-made pastries, cakes, biscuits etc etc come from.

Buy lidl free range every week for baking , never had a bad one

Agree. Besides free range eggs taste better...

Id never buy cheap eggs,If we all stop buying them they will stop the horrendous way they treat the chickens.

I buy free range eggs because they taste better imo.
If caged hen eggs tasted as good I would buy those.

Voted hot

Have some heat to cook those eggs.

I buy cheap eggs a lot... But I do have to say that when I can afford it, Lidl's free ranged eggs are so much nicer, they're much brighter orange yolk and just much better.

True to keeping them yourself. But I've also seen people keep chickens at home in small coops with no run, which arn't good conditions either.
My grand parents had chickens for years, but they gave the last 8 back to the farm they bought them from, it just wasn't cost effective anymore even after 'trading' eggs for veg etc. off neighbours, having to buy the feed from the likes of wilkos or pet shops. they had a big coop and the chickens had free run of the garden, they lost 2 to foxes digging up the wire fencing that was 2ft into the ground! so there is a lot to look out for, then there's the vets bills if something wrong with them, and various antifungal treatments to stop red mites etc. They are very sociable / friendly animals though, and they do miss them.

Prefer the eggs from our own chickens. Much nicer and fresher. Shop ones can be up to 56 days old. Grim

Left: A rescued battery hen arrives in a backyard chicken coop. Right: a year after being rescued, a healthy layer.
Source: Linda Cronin (CC by 2.0)
Ref:http://hubpages.com/hub/Organic-Eggs-vs-Free-Range-and-Cage-Free-Alternatives

You should only buy barn or free range eggs

The argument of 'Caged' v 'Free Range' is pretty moot to be honest. If you want to ensure a chicken doesn't suffer or get treated poorly, don't eat eggs. Free Range chickens live a slightly better life, but it's still a **** life, the regulations regarding Free Range chickens doesn't really mean they don't suffer, it just means they suffer less than caged hens. Chick-shredding still occurs, be they caged, free range, organic, etc. Germany has just announced an end to it, through genetic advancements :-)

Great deal for the sociopaths among us who have no conscience or empathy!
Fill your boots and remember not to spend that 50p saving all at once!!

Good price but please buy free range, good for you, your kids and poor hens. The major superstores are selling 15 eggs for £2 only. If more of us support the free range then hopefully the prices will come down in future.

I only buy free range now too because I don't agree with the living conditions of caged hens. I would rather spend more and know I didn't encourage the exploitation of a living creature to save a pound.
Happy hens produce better eggs anyway

And a large reason for global hunger are the meat and dairy industries.

I thought HUKD had got better at stamping out the RRP deals from Aldi and Lidl every week? Bizarre to see a deal like this sitting as one of the hottest of the day.

I think Iceland does a similar deal...

Heat for picture alone

The only way to be sure is to actually have chickens and collect the eggs yourself.
I think many people are missing the main point which is to minimise the potential harm for the chickens, which free range (probably does).
I only buy free range eggs and detest animal cruelty but that doesn't make a eco warrior that only eats soil.

Blaming chickens for poverty?
I think you need a hug..

They are the same price at Aldi.

there usually rotten

EGGCELSIOR!

Yayz!!!

I don't buy Mixed Eggs.
I cracked a few into a bowl or jug, then mix 'em myself!
Warmth.

And don't forget that large eggs cause vent prolapse and tearing.

Have we discussed chick shredding yet? Considering the life that the average farmed hen has to endure, I'm not sure whether or not the shredded chicks are the luckier ones.

To all those who think caged hens are cruelly treated, get up-to-date. There are now EU regulations covering them which have improved the conditions under which these hens are kept.

To those who claim free-range eggs are fresher, that is totally incorrect as caged hen eggs sell much faster, hence they are fresher. I have always bought them and have had only one bad egg in over 40 years! I don't believe free-range are nutritionally better or that they taste better - they may taste different if their diet is different but I suspect that most commercial producers use the same commercial feeds, so it is unlikely there is any variation in diet unless there is a known variation such as corn fed hens. I think the price difference has been eggsagerated by some here.

The regular price was £1 but admittedly they went down to 80p some time ago - sorry for my late posting.

buying cheap eggs if its too feed children then I agree its ok but seriously it doesn't cost alot more to buy an egg that has got cruelty conected too it. I would never buy cheap eggs id rather go without. the more these eggs are bought the longer the suffering will continue.

I couldn't give a dam about the chickens and I still buy free range.
It has been proven that free range eggs have better nutritional value and they also tend to taste better.

I think that buying these to feed a family is acceptable but it doesn't cost much more to buy eggs that don't involve such cruelty. I would rather go without. I will never buy cheap eggs. the longer people buy these the longer such suffering will continue. Hens are workers that are doing a job in giving us eggs. would you agree with such working conditions. .. I think not. So why accept it just because its an animal.

Eggs going cheep.

Good deal this, ive bought them the last month.

Lot of assumptions made about the quality of life of the chickens that lay these... I disagree with animal cruelty as much as the next man (unless the next man is Bernard Matthews :wink:) but even when some brands say 'free range' they just mean they were cooped up in a barn, instead of individual cages, not running around in fields, only way to be sure is to go to a local farm shop.

Actually one of the advantages of cages is that they keep the egg clean.

Almost 8p an egg

Hot deal, but tescos were selling a box of 6 FREE RANGE eggs last night for £0.07! I bought 20 boxes for £1.40(_;)

Great deal, hard to pass!!

Picture is of an ostrich egg,why is the deal for chicken's? I want to try ostrich egg.

3 year warranty??

Have to click hot just for the pic. :smile:

best to get eggs from a local small holding

commercial free range hens have a hard life and are only allowed to live 13 months,
I know from living close to 36,000 of them.

As someone else pointed out, how is this related to hens being allowed to live a life that isn't entirely based on misery and pain to provide a tasty accompaniment to bacon?
Have free range eggs made any of the kids YOU know homeless? Squatter chickens?

Been 80p in aldi a few months, just saying :stuck_out_tongue:

I've got no issue with those that GENUINELY struggle to feed their family, but don't equate calling someone 'intellectually challenged' simply for professing distaste at the disgusting conditions these poor **** live under to produce cheap eggs.
I'd honestly rather eat fewer eggs than eat the cheaply produced ones. As pointed out, the difference, especially at the cheapy supermarkets, is little.

Taking a moral stance, you honestly think that makes me a mega troll? Did I start and encourage an argument?

Those two things are unrelated, nor are they comparable. Try again.

Probably made in China......next thing you know all the farms will be going the same way as the steelworks.
Regular price btw. So not voting either way.

Wow!! i get really eggcited when i see deals like this!

i could almost understand 'big medium' pumpkins
... but large lidl eggs? NO!

voted hot just for the pic,
dont like eggs though :disappointed:

Cracking price no yoke suit your shell if you lay them in your basket.

I own a cafe and use about 200 eggs a week I now get my eggs from Lidl so much cheaper than cash and carry and nice eggs to

He's got a point though.
A lot of people pontificate about deals such as this. Guaranteed to lure one in to make a comment so whose the troll then ?:smiley:

Unfortunately 20 % of the children on this planet go to bed hungry at night,and people in this country are using food banks to survive plus 1000's of children are also homeless.

SORRY !! who is the "intellectually challenged" mega TROLL. :stuck_out_tongue:

Hot ! but be prepared for the intellectually challenged worrying about free range.

Free range?

but they aren't as tasty as iceland's eggs! Infact iceland probably has the best budgets eggs there is

Cracking price

JUST TEXT THE MISSUS....Pop into Lidl. I eat 12 eggs per day every day. That's 84 per week and a little gas. :smile:

Free range?

LAY off the egg jokes

Must be yolking at this price

Sorry should have read eggcellant

Lidl is great for eggs. I get mine from there. :innocent: