From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
More virtue signalling!
From the Telegraph:
Sainsbury’s is ditching brown eggs and switching to white as it races to hit net zero.
The UK’s second-largest supermarket plans to sell only white-shell eggs in its own-brand cartons after studies found they have a lower carbon footprint than brown alternatives.
Sainsbury’s said the shift towards “lower carbon” eggs would help it hit ambitious targets to reach net zero within its own operations by 2035 and across all of its suppliers by 2050.
White eggs have a 12.7pc smaller carbon footprint than brown alternatives, Sainsbury’s said, because the hens that lay them tend to be smaller and consume less energy-intensive feed. The supermarket said this helps to “indirectly reduce demand on land and water used to grow feed crops, as well as the amount of manure produced”.
Full story here.
As several Telegraph commenters have pointed, if they want to cut emissions, why don’t Sainsbury’s stop importing fruit and veg from abroad?
But my favourite was this:
Your car will get better gas mileage if you clean the bug splatter off the windshield.
It’s called HVIC, high velocity insect casualty.
Not always,
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So we need dirtying stations for cars?
(They could use the dirty water from cleaning stations.)
Well, that’s me speechless.
Apparently not.
Surely it’s time for a Brown Eggs Matter movement.
Very edggy and probably the most racist thing siince Bobby Caldwell was nominated for best new black artist of the year.
Right up there with proposals for separate licensing boards and exams for minorities.
If now they’re worried about land and water use, then there goes the environmentalists’ “golden egg” of organic farming.
Don’t egg them on
The yolks on me.
It’s an eggistential threat?
Don’t be so eggotistical
Sounds like a cry of “white supremacy” in the making
Don’t anybody tell the virtue signalers around here that they have to stop buy those brown eggs that they thick means they’re organic! Our grocery store has a whole egg section devoted to organic eggs and all of them are brown – oh and they cost twice as much as the white ones.
“Organic” is marketing-speak for “costs at least 40% more.”
In the UK the people exhale ca. 70 million kg of CO2 everyday. To this should be added all the CO2 exhaled by domestic animals. Since the UK has long cold winters, net zero is impossible. What is Mad Ed thinking?
That’s where you’re going wrong, mate, you assume Ed thinks
Harold left out the comma: “What, is Mad Ed thinking?”
All based on data from 3 farms. Plus it only applies to their own branded eggs and not to the other brands of eggs they sell. Another company added to my ‘Do not buy from’ list. Its a very long list but it works, just ask Arla.
I bought a pack of six own-brand eggs from Sainsbury’s yesterday. Every one was brown! Yes, really…
Eggs were only following UK TV advertising
Erm….. So, the logic is that smaller hens eat less food, but they also lay smaller eggs, so Sainsbury’s attempt to reduce their carbon footprint is to sell smaller eggs, ignoring the fact that the consumers’ response will simply be to use more of the smaller eggs.
Yeah………
Yes, exactly. That way, they have more opportunity for profit, both from the customer that needs to buy more eggs and the supplier that they can squeeze for bigger discounts when they buy in bulk.
Way way back when I still had a subscription to Nature, they had an article which seemed to be about someone riding Qantas back and forth between Australia and the US, watching how passengers reacted to salt shakers whose tops had been customized with different numbers and sizes of holes. Passengers weren’t dumb; unless the change was small enough, they just shook longer. Some took the top off, I think. At least one used his fork (back in the days when real metal forks were passed out) to gouge out bigger holes, or maybe he thought he could clear clogged holes.
It’s nonsense as bigger animals have a slower metabolism as result of a better volume: surface ratio.
But these people also use saving water as argument – in Britain.
Or go somewhere else that sells bigger eggs…
“What, was Sainsbury’s thinking?” I think not.
It’s carbon dioxide not carbon. Which doesn’t affect the weather. And the global Keeling curve rises inexorably. So Net Zero is both futile and impossible
With glaciers, as long as the globe is above a certain temperature, there will be overall glacial melting. Similarly, as long as the ocean temperature is above a certain temperature, there will be net CO2 outgassing. It’s simple physics.
Fortunately, Sainsbury’s keeps the riff raff out of Waitrose.
My big problem with Waitrose eggs is they sometimes put ostrich eggs on the emu egg shelf. Infuriating.
When I was growing up on a farm we had a couple of dozen Rhode Island Red hens. The eggs were a mixture of white and brown.
?????
Back in the 1960s my brothers and I had a little business keeping hens. My elder brother was the brains of the operation. We had a variety of breeds. Leghorn, Light Sussex, Rhode Island Red and Marans along with some hybrids. As far as I remember the Leghorns laid white eggs and were most prolific and laid white eggs the Marans laid fewest but the brownest. At weekends we sold eggs at the roadside brown ones sold best and at a premium, so the white ones went to a cooperative (Strathearn Egg Producers), they paid on size and colour was not a factor and we had a little scale to do the sizing by weight.
The lesson was that being an entrepreneur is hard work, being a successful one is much harder. It’s much easier being a self appointed expert.
And chocolate milk comes from brown cows. Maybe some of your hens were slipping out at night for a little extracurricular activity.
Poultry farmer refutes Sainsbury’s claims about brown eggs.
https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2026/06/07/poultry-farmer-debunks-sainsburys-brown-egg-ban/
David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville…..
I’m more shocked than Kaya. Surely this goes against DEI principles? There should be at least one brown egg in every carton of six. Unless it’s for sale in Birmingham, in which case there should be one white egg for every five brown ones. Who knew Sainsbury’s would get behind white egg supremacy?
You know you’ve crossed the Rubicon of sanity when you’re concerned about the carbon footprint of an egg.
Exactly!
Delusional people doing delusional things.
I don’t know but whites only sounds pretty racist to me.
maybe someone will accuse the eggs of racism and crack them all.
Why do we call the egg albumen “egg whites?” Must be our racist instincts. They should be “egg clears.”
The ‘clears’ become white when they are cooked.
Ah.. the beauty of living in a small country town.
Backyard eggs, cheap or for barter. 🙂
Having raised chicken myself I can’t stop laughing about this utter nonsense. Might be that the mainly used hybrid chicken lay white eggs. That particular breed needs less feed and of lower quality…cheap crap.ñ in othercwords. Brand that as causing less emissions when the poor animal preys on itself to lay eggs and is just skin and bones after its 2 year lifespan sickens me.
Hybrid= 300+ eggs a year
non hybrid = tops 180-200 eggs a year
Smplified but you get more or less the idea.
Well virtue signalling has hit another zeinth of stupidity…effoff hard, very hard Sainsbury
Of course, the irony is that the very thing that all their food products depend on is the thing that they demonise.
If there were no atmospheric CO2 Sainsbury’s would quickly go out of business. Oh, yes, and most of humanity would starve to death….
Most?
They should be renamed “Insainsbury”.
As if this effort will make any difference!
This will make the same amount of difference as the UK building windmills. None!!!
Insainsbury and the UK are just uselessly spinning their wheels. Nothing either of them do will make a bit of difference to the Earth’s weather or climate. Nothing.
Mass Delusion is an ugly, counterproductive thing, and they have it in spades in the UK.
Brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are best. Our hens (Araucana) lay blue eggs,
My araucana hens laid green eggs-1st time I saw that I was stopped cold in my tracks…after all, green eggs must have gone over, right? Green eggs and ham became the family daily joke. Life can be grand-and funny both.
Ah, the fruit and vegetable import misunderstanding. It has been long established that importing such in bulk is more cost effective (thus effectively greener) than locally grown. The infrastructure for locally grown involves, among other things, a fleet of trucks larger than that used with bulk carriers. and more miles on the road as well. Furthermore, locally grown is clearly seasonal and bulk imports allow out-of-season produce availability.
In addition, per the article, any effort to lower the carbon (aka CO2) foot print is stupid as we need more CO2 not less. It is plant food, is greening the planet, and has nothing to do with climate.
They should switch to quail eggs. The birds eat significantly less food and their yolks are much larger by size than chicken eggs. Last, the quail hens start producing at a younger age and they produce more eggs yearly. 300-320 vs. 250-300.
The quail eggs make really, really cute deviled eggs. A win-win all round.
Been there, done that…nice to know there’s other nutcases like me loose in the world!
Currently have 7 hens here on the ranch. 3 lay brown eggs, 2 lay whitish/cream colored eggs, and 2 lay blue/green eggs. Near as I can tell, the hens all eat the same food, poop out the same waste, and when the egg is cracked into the frying pan, you can’t tell what color the shell was.
Seems to me to be a very virtue signalling BS plan
I don’t know what to say.
What are the producers going to do with the brown eggs that Sainsbury’s will no longer buy? Put them back where they came from?
There is considerable evidence that reducing climate alarmism would reduce the amount of manure produced.
Someone is going to end up with egg on his face.