Don’t Be Polite. It’s Your Right.

I was at a nice little tea room the other day, enjoying a brie and cranberry sauce jacket potato when I noticed a leaflet beside me about the ‘Simply Ask’ campaign.

To my amazement, this leaflet showed me a shocking statistic on how our resturants are using a whopping 80% of eggs that are not free range! 80%! still coming from battery hens! It should be zero!

National Trust have been using free range for 6 years, more than half a million free range eggs in its baking and cooking in this time. This is the kind of result that I am sure all of us would like to see in all of our resturants. So this is where you come in, the campaign is urging people to ‘Simply Ask’ any restaurant, cafe or pub if the eggs that they use are cage-free. Simple.

For more infomation on the ’simply ask’ campaign just click here!

Or for more details on the RSPCA freedom food, click here!

Lynda Brewer is the Catering Development Manager for the National Trust, this is what she had to say;

‘By taking simple steps, such as finding a national supplier of free range eggs, or even better, a supplier local to your business, all catering companies can easily follow our example and use only free range eggs in their cooking. There really is no excuse to use eggs laid by hens kept in appalling conditions.’

Backed by top chefs including Raymond Blanc, Antony Worrall Thompson, and Paul Merrett, the campaign urges people to ‘Simply Ask’ about where their food comes from when eating out.

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