Opinion, please: Pete and Gerry's Cage Free Eggs

[flvegan]

11. Please visit the Certified Humane site and check out the housing systems .pdf

CH also allows for "beak trimming" (as opposed to debeaking) which I'm not a fan of.

My opinion? I'm happy you're a vegetarian. I'm thrilled that you're taking a very good look at where your food comes from and are concerned about the animals that would provide you with dairy, eggs and honey. You're so far beyond so many people in how you view what you eat. HSUS has bought into the CH deal, though I don't see a single person serving there that I trust further than I can throw them.

One thing I didn't see, and might have missed, is the bird replacement method. Hens stop laying, so where do they go? And when chicks are hatched to replace the retired hens, what happens to the males?

Lastly, if your commercial grocery store is now selling them, they've spent a LOT of money to get on those shelves. I find an operation like this to be somewhat suspicious in that regard. The profit margin on an egg is very, very small.

Do your research. If you buy from them, it's probably still a little bit better than dropping cash on the usual eggs from battery hens. The most abused animals in the world.