How do you like yours? Boiled, scrambled. or avoided entirely?
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The story of egg consumption in this country has been a colourful one. A key ingredient in the traditional full English breakfast, eggs have nonetheless fallen in and out of favour over the past few decades, owing to health claims made variously for and against them.
Until recently, we seemed to have settled on the view that eggs were not only fine, but actually pretty good for us too. The NHS recommends them as part of a healthy, balanced diet, pointing out that as well as being a source of protein, they also contain a number of vitamins and minerals. There is no official recommended limit on how many eggs we should eat.
Is it possible to change a chicken s sex before it hatches? Zoë Corbyn
The eggs we eat have a hidden cost. About 7bn male chicks are killed worldwide every year to produce them. Farmers need to replenish their supply of egg-laying hens but, by nature, half the chicks that hatch are male and growing them for meat is uneconomic – that industry uses faster growing breeds. In many countries they are tossed into shredding machines, although in the UK they are gassed.
But what if those male chicks could instead hatch out as functional females, able to grow into egg-laying birds? That’s the vision of Israeli startup Soos Technology. Founded in 2017, the company, which has received $3.3m in investment and prize winnings, wants to make commercial hatcheries kinder and more economic by changing the effective sex of poultry embryos as they develop.
British Lion unveils £1.3m campaign amid surge in demand
28 January 2021 |
The public s demand for eggs has increased significantly during the lockdown
British Lion eggs has launched a £1.3m marketing campaign for 2021 to drive awareness of the Lion mark and capitalise on consumer demand for eggs.
The year’s campaign will focus on maintaining the sales boost delivered by lockdown and consumer desire for quick and healthy meals.
The British Lion Code of Practice is the UK’s most successful food safety scheme: more than 90% of UK eggs are now produced to its standards.
Retail sales of eggs grew by 18.4 percent in the last year, the equivalent of around 1.2 billion extra eggs, according to figures.