Egg Fetches GBP25,000 On eBay
Most people who buy eggs from supermarkets or other retail food stores seek to always lay their hands on ones as large as possible, in order to get a better value for their money.
The ever-increasing demand for this type of products has prompted managers to offer bonuses to farms that can supply most such products. The downside of the whole deal is that the chickens laying them go to stress and pain in order to produce such large eggs, say animal welfare experts.
British Free Range Producers' Association chairman Tom Vesey, who owns farms totalling some 16,000 hens, says that it can “be painful to the hen” to produce large eggs. “There is also the stress, which is a big problem as it takes more out of hens to lay large eggs. It would be kinder to eat smaller eggs. Whenever I go to the Continent, people eat medium-sized eggs, yet here the housewife seems to be wedded to large eggs,” he said in The Times.
This extra large egg containing the very rare phenomena of what experts call "a breather ring" fetched £25,000 on eBay earlier this week:
The ever-increasing demand for this type of products has prompted managers to offer bonuses to farms that can supply most such products. The downside of the whole deal is that the chickens laying them go to stress and pain in order to produce such large eggs, say animal welfare experts.
British Free Range Producers' Association chairman Tom Vesey, who owns farms totalling some 16,000 hens, says that it can “be painful to the hen” to produce large eggs. “There is also the stress, which is a big problem as it takes more out of hens to lay large eggs. It would be kinder to eat smaller eggs. Whenever I go to the Continent, people eat medium-sized eggs, yet here the housewife seems to be wedded to large eggs,” he said in The Times.
This extra large egg containing the very rare phenomena of what experts call "a breather ring" fetched £25,000 on eBay earlier this week:
