SALMONELLA is present in one in every thirty boxes of imported eggs on sale in England, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) estimates. The figure rises to about one in eight boxes among eggs brought in from Spain, the agency said.
I blame the Spanish chickens, but who knows which came first?
Also in The Times (here):
CUSTOMERS across Britain have been sold millions of eggs passed off as free-range when they were produced in factory farms on the Continent, The Times has learnt.
A criminal inquiry is under way into how one firm alone might have been selling millions of eggs a year to High Street retailers who had no idea that they were part of a sophisticated scam.
Shoppers are believed to have been duped into paying double the price for free-range to avoid eggs from birds housed in battery cages.
Excuse me but, if you persist in buying factory-farmed eggs in the mistaken belief that they are free range, then what is the point? I bow to no-one in my concern that hens should have a happy and fulfilling life, but if you can't tell the difference between free range and factory farmed unless it is written on the eggbox, then why buy the more expensive ones?
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