Sainsbury eggs

[WW.]

Please stop with all the yolks. One or two were all white but it's starting to scramble the thread and now my brain is fried.

 

[Tim.243]

Please stop with all the yolks. One or two were all white but it's starting to scramble the thread and now my brain is fried.

The poached thread has the Deviled egg in it's sights

 

[shakey jake]

Please stop with all the yolks. One or two were all white but it's starting to scramble the thread and now my brain is fried.

At least you didnt have to shell out for the jokes

 

[VSS]

Good business sense dressed up as being done for eco reasons which is clever marketing. Apparently the white eggs are also slightly smaller too...

Efficient livestock production systems have a lower carbon footprint, so the supermarket's eco justification does stack up.

 

[terrier1]

Looks like a good opportunity for farmers to sell brown eggs at farmers markets to me.

 

[JockStalk]

One dimensional thinking at work again. Marginal gain on carbon footprint (oh lord why) and what are the other impacts/ unintended consequences that don’t even appear on the carbon zealots radars?
Duck eggs for me - but maybe I’m quackers…..

 

[shbangsteve]

This has nothing to do with carbon footprint b*llox, more to do with Sainsbury's margins. Smaller hens lay smaller eggs which will be sold at the same price as the larger brown eggs. It also allows for the substitution with cheaper foreign eggs without the customer noticing

 

[WW.]

Yes, it does although it

Efficient livestock production systems have a lower carbon footprint, so the supermarket's eco justification does stack up.

Not necessarily. Extensive cattle grazing is far less efficient but has a lower carbon impact than intensive beef. I agree in this case it's a shift from one breed to another within the same system but I cynically suspect the shift is not motivated by the 'greenerness' as much as bottom line.

 

[tackb]

This has nothing to do with carbon footprint b*llox, more to do with Sainsbury's margins. Smaller hens lay smaller eggs which will be sold at the same price as the larger brown eggs. It also allows for the substitution with cheaper foreign eggs without the customer noticing

shrinkflation !

 

[VSS]

Yes, it does although it
Not necessarily. Extensive cattle grazing is far less efficient but has a lower carbon impact than intensive beef. I agree in this case it's a shift from one breed to another within the same system but I cynically suspect the shift is not motivated by the 'greenerness' as much as bottom line.

I didn't say anything about intensive systems. I said efficient.
An efficient extensive beef system will have a lower carbon footprint than an inefficient extensive beef system. The difference might simply be better genetics.
Which is eggsactly what's happening with the chickens. Under the same management system, a particular breed or strain is performing more efficiently.

And, apart from shell colour, there's absolutely no difference between brown eggs and white eggs. So the consumer is unaffected, the environment benefits, and the producer makes more money.