I felt this news item was worth putting in here as it gives a stark look at what the supermarkets are focing the producers to undergo and what is happening in the egg industry.
It highlights the commercial aspects of free range V cage eggs.
Its basically the same crap as what the dairy industry has been going through over the last several years with dollar milk.
It just shows how important it is for us to produce our own eggs at home. The act of buying eggs at the supermarket increases the demand but simultaneously puts undue pressure on already stretched commercial producers who are forced to be locked in to very low prices by the supermarket chains. If you can't produce your own eggs or buy at the farm gate from local producers, then only buy locally produced free range at the supermarket. Also be aware that the supermarkets will con you with their branding by making the brand appear as though it is produced by a private farmer when in fact it is just battery farming on a massive scale egg production given a homely twist.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...brink-due-to-imports-by-supermarkets/10467130
This news item should not be geo-locked for Australians but may be for other countries.
With the drought biting Australia wide and the cost of grain so high, how dare the supermarket chains force egg producers to sell their eggs for less than last years prices. It undermines the whole process of changing from cage to free range or barn production. And what happened to the regulation dates about the changeover from cage to barn or free range? I thought that was to be completed by 2019.
As the guy says in his interview, there has been no drop off of cage production volumes, but rather an added increase in free range production causing a gult of eggs which the supermarkets can profit from.
It highlights the commercial aspects of free range V cage eggs.
Its basically the same crap as what the dairy industry has been going through over the last several years with dollar milk.
It just shows how important it is for us to produce our own eggs at home. The act of buying eggs at the supermarket increases the demand but simultaneously puts undue pressure on already stretched commercial producers who are forced to be locked in to very low prices by the supermarket chains. If you can't produce your own eggs or buy at the farm gate from local producers, then only buy locally produced free range at the supermarket. Also be aware that the supermarkets will con you with their branding by making the brand appear as though it is produced by a private farmer when in fact it is just battery farming on a massive scale egg production given a homely twist.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...brink-due-to-imports-by-supermarkets/10467130
This news item should not be geo-locked for Australians but may be for other countries.
With the drought biting Australia wide and the cost of grain so high, how dare the supermarket chains force egg producers to sell their eggs for less than last years prices. It undermines the whole process of changing from cage to free range or barn production. And what happened to the regulation dates about the changeover from cage to barn or free range? I thought that was to be completed by 2019.
As the guy says in his interview, there has been no drop off of cage production volumes, but rather an added increase in free range production causing a gult of eggs which the supermarkets can profit from.
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