When Save-On-Foods and BC SPCA partnered in 2011 to give customers more information about where their eggs were coming from, they were interested to see if it would change buying habits.
Some online readers of Black Press community news in Greater Victoria say yes, it has.
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B次元官网网址淵es. I now buy free range/veggie fed/cage free eggs because of the signs with them,B次元官网网址� wrote Ann Kalonoff Thomson.
But for others, the conditions of the hens wasnB次元官网网址檛 the only factor in their decision making.
B次元官网网址淚t used to but now the hens in cages are 1/2 the price and with the price of groceries these days this is one place I can save,B次元官网网址� Susan Warrender wrote.
Others said they skip the grocery store all together, buying directly from local farmers.
B次元官网网址淚 have my own chickens. Most people can have 5 in their backyard legally. Before that I would only but from local farm stands. Commercial chickens have terrible lives regardless of their B次元官网网址渇ee rangeB次元官网网址� status,B次元官网网址� wrote Van Essa.
Krista Randall takes it one step furter: B次元官网网址淪ure thing. I got chickens instead. Now I know exactly where my eggs come from.B次元官网网址�
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