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Article: Why customers will shell out for free range eggs; FOOD Free range eggs are sometimes not all they're cracked up to be. Fi nola Lynch meets a farmer committed to fair play for chickens.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- April 11, 1998
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When we pick up a box of free range eggs from our local supermarket - and 12 per cent of us do each week - do we ever stop and think about what free range actually means?
For most of us the image in our mind's eye is reflected in the Beatrix Potter-style idyll drawn on to the egg box of several cute hens happily scratch feeding in a quaint farmyard. We imagine them laying their eggs wherever and whenever they feel like it and a kindly farmer stumbling across them, still warm, ready to be shipped off in a wicker basket to the supermarket shelves.
So it was ...