The pledges already didn’t mean much to begin with. As long as we keep allowing the industry to exist, it will keep being like this

  • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOP
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    2 months ago

    I can’t speak to them personally, but if chickpeas or chickpea flour are cheaper near you, there are various chickpea-based scrambles you can make instead too! Also tofu scrambles can be (and more often are) with firm tofu instead of silken tofu, if for some reason there is a bigger difference in price between those where you are


    I should also add that globally, free-range doesn’t mean what most people think it means, unfortunately

    Bringing up a Tyson competitor, the farm manager wonders how other poultry companies handle supposedly free-range-raised chickens. The short answer: They don’t, really.

    “Those birds don’t go outside — you know that,” the technician replies. “They don’t all go out … Look that up online.”

    The manager chimes in: “It’s not like they make it like all of ’em come out and enjoy the sun.”

    “That is strictly for commercial [advertising] purposes,” the technician says.

    https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23724740/tyson-chicken-free-range-humanewashing-investigation-animal-cruelty

    For something more specifically about Australia

    Under the current definition, up to 10,000 hens can be kept per hectare — a density almost seven times higher than earlier welfare guidelines recommended. Some smaller farms choose to keep far fewer birds, around 1,500 per hectare. Others operate at the legal maximum.

    […]

    The standards also state that hens should have “regular and meaningful” access to the outdoors, but do not specify what that means in practice.

    https://animalsaustralia.org/our-work/zoos-and-aquariums/what-does-free-range-really-mean/

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      Oh yeah, “free range” is far from ideal in Australia. It usually means they live in a pit rather than cages.

      Chickpea scramble sound interesting, I’ll look into that.