A&W now advertising - now eggs from chickens feed vegetarian feed...

**grassfarmer** · Sep 5, 2014, 17:39

Good for them - guaranteeing they are raised in Canada and have had a diet with no animal byproducts in it. Positive marketing - what's the problem with that?

**kato** · Sep 5, 2014, 18:11

Does anyone even feed animal byproducts to chickens?

**grassfarmer** · Sep 5, 2014, 20:28

I guess so - from Chicken Farmers of Canada "â€¦.animal by-products, which are often added to feed as a protein source."

**grassfarmer** · Sep 5, 2014, 22:19

Not sure of the science here but if blood meal from a beef plant was used as a protein source for chicken feed, then feather meal was used in cattle rations wouldn't that seem rather a silly risk to take with BSE/prions etc?
The cheap penny pinching of the industrialized ag system all to make an extra $.
I can see why informed consumers would prefer to stick with non-animal product feeds.

**rkaiser** · Sep 6, 2014, 06:59

Have you ever noticed the & symbol looks like a guy dragging his butt in the grass.....

Go Natural..... Whoop Whoop

**grassfarmer** · Sep 6, 2014, 07:16

Can't say I'd ever noticed that Randy - did you write the "Far Side" cartoons?

**kato** · Sep 7, 2014, 13:46

Ha ha! Better to write them than be a topic. Those were my all time favourite cartoons.

Now that I think of it, my chickens don't eat a vegetarian diet... They eat potato bugs, grasshoppers, worms and whatever else is dumb enough to run in front of them. So I guess the bottom line is that in order for you to have vegetarian chickens you need to lock them up in barns where they can never run around and be chickens.

Ironic....

**rkaiser** · Sep 7, 2014, 15:30

To believe in corporate agriculture and chem farming is to be the "far side" topic kato....

Choosing natural is the "near" side in my mind.

Love our yellow eggs and garden scrap bacon ---- coming our way soon...Yummmm

**farmgal71** · Sep 7, 2014, 15:32

Hey Grassfarmer,

Do you think this is positive marketing?
Inferring that all other eggs are bad because only A&W cares enough to make sure they have eggs from chickens feed with vegetarian diet?

Actually preying on the lack of food knowledge by the consumer.

I am still mad at them for bringing in non Canadian produced beef because our beef producers do it poorly.

A&W now advertising - now eggs from chickens feed vegetarian feed...