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Jonnyboy



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Welsh Girls Allotment



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have returned from my fact finding mission

spoke to the owner of the pet shop and asked him did he realise that the eggs he is selling are battery eggs, well he said they are from caged hens he said yes I said battery eggs - they come from a farm he said as if that was different ?

in all fairness he does not market them as free range at the moment, I bought eggs from him a year or two ago and a local farmer was supplying him, so I automatically assumed he had the same supplier, however the eggs are laid out in a wicker basket on a bed of straw, I appreciate that this is no assumption of origin but it seems immoral to me to present the eggs in this fashion for them to turn out to be in effect battery eggs or am I missing the point of marketing ?

Green Man



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PostPosted: Thu May 17, 07 3:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

You've not missed the point, you have just got it. Supermarkets do this all the time with 'finest' labels etc.

judith



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PostPosted: Thu May 17, 07 3:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I guess if he isn't advertising them as free range, then he isn't breaking any rules. But the wicker basket business is a very cynical bit of marketing IMO - no better than all those "farm fresh" euphemisms.
I suspect the owner was well aware of what he was doing and I would be taking my business elsewhere.
Well done for confronting him about it though.

Jonnyboy



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PostPosted: Thu May 17, 07 3:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

judith wrote:
I guess if he isn't advertising them as free range, then he isn't breaking any rules. But the wicker basket business is a very cynical bit of marketing IMO - no better than all those "farm fresh" euphemisms.
I suspect the owner was well aware of what he was doing and I would be taking my business elsewhere.
Well done for confronting him about it though.


Agree on all points

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