re: #280 iceweasel

The UK has some regulations on selling eggs that I have a problem with.

I always thought of eggs as cheap food— scrambled eggs, egg salad, eggs as a binding ingredient when you bread, quiche, whatever.
I’m used to buying a dozen eggs for a dollar or so (yes, factory hens, I know, etc)

I can’t buy a dozen eggs in scotland for under say 2.50 GBP. That’s almost 4 dollars USD.

I haven’t looked into this, but I think what Jimmah said was that they’ve jacked up the price on even factory farmed eggs to force people to buy the non-battery hens ones.
It’s very weird.

Why buy eggs if they’re 4 dollars for a dozen. I pay about 1.25 for a dozen grade A. I won’t spend more than that even if they “forced” me to. For some strange reason if I make some eggs I’m hungry again in one hour.

Some people have the luxury of being able to spend 10 dollars on a dozen egg and loaf of bread that they get at Le Whole Earth Food Salon. I don’t. I can get a lot more mileage by getting standard food at Safeway. Plus, I don’t have to get “dressed up” to go food shopping at Le Whole Earth Food Salon.

I think the ethical comfort people get from shopping in those places is outweighed by the clothing they wear to go on a poser food shopping errand that’s made in 3rd world sweat shops.