Knesset May Change To Free Range Eggs

Speaker Rivlin responds positively to request from animal rights group, hopes change can be made soon.

Knesset considers switching to free-range eggs

Speaker Rivlin responds positively to request from animal rights group Anonymous, hopes change can be made soon

Tzvika Brot • Ynet

Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin is considering banning the use of factory-farmed eggs at the parliament's eateries and instructing them to use free-range and organic eggs instead, as is customary in many parliaments and state institutions around the world, Yedioth Ahronoth reported last week.
 
Free-range eggs are more costly than eggs that are laid in battery cages, but the Tel Aviv-based Anonymous organization asked the Knesset speaker to help send a message that the Israeli parliament is also concerned with animal rights.

"Free-range eggs are laid by hens that are not held in small cages their entire lives. The hens are free to roam around," Anonymous said in a letter to Rivlin.

"The other eggs come from battery cages, where hens are confined to small spaces where they cannot even stretch their wings or stand comfortably. Battery-caged hens are sometimes starved in order to increase their egg production," the animal rights group told Rivlin in the letter

The Knesset speaker told Anonymous that he has instructed Dan Landau, the Knesset's director-general, to check whether the change to free-range eggs can be made during the signing of the next contract with the owner of the parliament's eateries.

Comments

[BT]

It's interesting that no mention of Omega3 is made. It's my understanding that the yolks of caged-bird eggs are useless from a nutritional point of view. Yolks from free range eggs have the extremely valuable and important Omega 3, which is very hard to get in one's diet. Therefore caged birds are not only cruel, they don't allow all the nutritional value of an egg to develop as it should.

[zach]

The yolks of caged-bird eggs are not "useless". It's still the cheapest form of protein there is.

Cage-free eggs have various amounts of Omega-3, depending on what they are fed. The ones we buy (the cheapest, at $2.25/dozen) have about 100 mg/egg. For about $1 more/dozen we can get 600 mg/egg. But I don't eat eggs for the omega-3, and take fish oil capsules.

[Catcher50]

Amazing...the Knesset is just like the US Congress. Special privileges (no matter whether the claims are valid or not, it's irrelevant) yet they will get the best product. I'll also wager that the cost to members and employees don't go up, despite the more costly ingredients.

Ahhh, some things are eternal and universal.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Apologies to Beatles:

Free as a chicken,
it's a Knesset thing to be.
Free as a chicken.

Home, matzoh brei,
like a free range bird I'll fly
for some chicken wings.

Whatever happened to
the eggs that we once knew?
Can we really live without Omega?

Where did we lose the brunch
that seemed to mean so much?
It always made me feel so...

Free as a chicken,
like the Knesset thing to be.
Free as a chicken.

Home, home oy vey,
like a free range bird I'll stay
like some Buffalo wings.

Whatever happened to
the eggs that we once knew?
Always made me feel so free.

Free as a chicken.
It's the Knesset thing to be.
Free as a chicken. 3x

[BT]

The yolks do not have protein. You are better off just eating the whites of an egg from a caged-chicken.

[effie]

A large egg has about 6-7 grams of protein with it split between the yolk and the white.

[A E ANDERSON]

But don't frummies avoid eggs that have blood spots and yucky stuff inside? Wouldn't that mean they prefer old fashioned, caged, non-fertilised eggs that tend to have fewer blood spots than the darker variety?

[yank in the tank]

well they beter sort out the problem in gaza before they worry about the "rights: of chickens

[Office of the Chief Rabbi]

think we've missed the subtext. It has nothing to do with animal rights.It's about who's got the real beitzim.

[Neo-Conservaguy]

Great news. It would seem ethical kashruth is gaining some steam lately. Good.

[Jeff Eyges]

I've read that the "free-range" chickens are really just walking around in a large enclosure. It's still crowded and not the most hygienic environment going, but, of course, it beats the hell out of spending their lives crammed into those tiny cages, where they go nuts, pull out their own feathers and peck each other's eyes out.

I knew of a fellow some years back who made a living manufacturing tinted contact lenses that were inserted into the chickens' eyes to calm them down somewhat, so they didn't destroy one another. This is how insane the factory farming industry is.

While we're on the subject, no one should be eating veal, either. That's another abomination.

Although I never use this term (because I'm a God-cursed atheist who's headed to Gehinnom), the entire factory farming industry is an enormous chillul HaShem - one of the egregious in the world.