as real fruit and vegetables.
a carton of eggs can be called ‘farm fresh’ or ‘country-fresh’ and carry images of hens scratching in a farmyard, however these are probably eggs from caged battery hens.
the hens which lay ‘free-range’ eggs must have access to the outdoors, though in practice many are kept in such huge sheds that they rarely daylight.
‘barn eggs’ are a halfway house between free range and battery systems.
the packaging on class a ‘lion quality’ eggs says they come from ‘caged hens kept in carefully managed conditions’. these hens have to be ‘carefully managed’ because otherwise they would quickly die. in a typical cage, five fully-grown hens are crammed into 