Who’s to blame – The Egg Intervention

Even if we all would change our buying habits and only buy free-range or organic eggs, this would hardly change anything with regard to how many hens are kept in laying batteries. Most of the eggs form the batteries are used in the food industry for noodles, cakes, mayonnaise, a whole range of convenience foods. This is the main business of the egg industry and they sell far more eggs to any of the big food producers per day then to all end consumer in a whole year.
The next time I went shopping, I checked which of the products contained eggs and I tried to find out if those eggs came from free range or battery eggs:

Unfortunately, I was not very lucky: None of the products that contained eggs had any information on the packaging with regard to the source of the eggs.

Back home, I went to the websites of the food producers, hoping to find more information with regard to what type of eggs are used in the products. I found the desired information once, on the Irish Ben&Jerry´s ice cream website:

They use free range eggs in their ice cream. All other food producers make no statements about the eggs used.

As next step to find the information, I wrote to the food producers:

So far I have received no replies, but I keep you posted.

For the time being, I will not buy any of the products where it is unclear which typ of eggs are used.