Just a girl and her ferret~
This was my outfit from Saturday night, featuring the amazing gaiters that my good friend <a href=”http://vampirefreaks.com/Switch44”> Switch</a> hand made and sent to me, all the way from Canada <3
Currently, for farmers to lable their eggs a Free Range product, the standards allow up to 1,500 chickens per hectare, and chicks to be kept indoors only for the first 5 - 6 weeks of their life.
The Australian Egg Corporation Ltd (AECL) wants to increase this to allow a staggering 20,000 laying hens per hectare and to call eggs produced under these intense conditions ‘free range’, to attract a premium price. AECL also proposes that free range hens be allowed to be locked inside sheds for the first 25 weeks of their lives — even though they begin laying eggs at just 18 weeks old.
The push has come from large influential battery producers who want to diversify their operations to include ‘free range’ to cash in on the trend of consumers shunning cruel cage eggs. Clearly profit is more important to them than the welfare of their hens or honesty to consumers.
Whilst AECL has the authority to decide on free range standards, retailers ultimately decide what products they offer their customers. If retailers refuse to accept intensively produced eggs labelled as ‘free range’, AECL will have no other option than to abandon their proposal.
Please urge the major national retailers, Coles and Woolworths, to use their power to defeat this proposal by committing never to sell eggs labelled ‘free range’ that do not meet today’s minimum free range standards.
This matters.
Disgusting! I will completely cut eggs out of my diet if they try to bring in this bullshit
Glad to see some support <3
Currently, for farmers to lable their eggs a Free Range product, the standards allow up to 1,500 chickens per hectare, and chicks to be kept indoors only for the first 5 - 6 weeks of their life.
The Australian Egg Corporation Ltd (AECL) wants to increase this to allow a staggering 20,000 laying hens per hectare and to call eggs produced under these intense conditions ‘free range’, to attract a premium price. AECL also proposes that free range hens be allowed to be locked inside sheds for the first 25 weeks of their lives — even though they begin laying eggs at just 18 weeks old.
The push has come from large influential battery producers who want to diversify their operations to include ‘free range’ to cash in on the trend of consumers shunning cruel cage eggs. Clearly profit is more important to them than the welfare of their hens or honesty to consumers.
Whilst AECL has the authority to decide on free range standards, retailers ultimately decide what products they offer their customers. If retailers refuse to accept intensively produced eggs labelled as ‘free range’, AECL will have no other option than to abandon their proposal.
Please urge the major national retailers, Coles and Woolworths, to use their power to defeat this proposal by committing never to sell eggs labelled ‘free range’ that do not meet today’s minimum free range standards.
This matters.
every time
And that’s only a $1.25 extra? That’s a hell of a deal!
omg lololol
Hahaha her face is like what have you done
I actually cannot stop staring at this omg
(via pricklylegs)
I act like shit don’t phase me,
Inside it drives me crazy
My insecurities could eat me alive
But when I see my baby
Suddenly I’m not crazy
It all makes sense when I look into (his) eyes
The greatest anticipation I know.
(Source: seoulyouthculture, via genomdisorder)
