Richmond BC bans caged eggs from restaurants

[dona83]

I think we can set a precedent here and get all of your respective cities to consider enacting a bylaw requiring restaurants to use only organic eggs. It's too bad they only stop at cage-free eggs and not fully organic eggs but it's a very huge step.

Originally Posted by Vancouver Metro newspaper May 30, 2007

Richmond is going "cage free." A resuolution not to serve eggs laid by caged chickens at city-run eateries passed unanimously by city council.

Bruce Passmore of the Vancouver Humane Society (VHS) said he met with Richmond councillors and educated them on the "inherent cruelty of confing egg-laying hens in battery cages."

On Monday night, the city voted to endorse that message and educate consumers about it.

The egg resolution "is about providing options for people," said Ted Townsend, a spokesperson for the city "We certainly hope the other cities will follow suit."

The VHS has approached every city council on the Lower Mainland, and Vancouver is a "big proponent" of a cage-free resolution, Passmore said.

Last week, Langara College because the first campus to go cage-free.

Stephen Easterbrook is Richmond's only free-range egg producer. He raised poultry as a child in the '60s, "back before it was normal to raise poultry in cages," he said.

Thirty years later he saw a market opportunity that was in line with his personal beliefs and opened an organic egg farm. He says it has seen "stead growth over 13 years, as consumers understand what organic means and what free-range means."

[VoodooJoint]

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[lynn's Cavies]

Sweet! That is my hometown.

[Solebomber]

Originally Posted by dona83

I think we can set a precedent here and get all of your respective cities to consider enacting a bylaw requiring restaurants to use only organic eggs. It's too bad they only stop at cage-free eggs and not fully organic eggs but it's a very huge step.

The egg resolution "is about providing options for people," said Ted Townsend, a spokesperson for the city "We certainly hope the other cities will follow suit."
I am confused - doesn't this ban take away an option? how does it provide an option? don't get me wrong as I am not for the battery cages for the chickens - I just don't think that particular quote made sense - if they enacted a bylaw that required restaurants to have organic/cage free eggs as an option to thier patrons then it would make sense to me. but to say that by banning an option is providing more options doesn't make sense.