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I have no problem with buying the 'cheaper' products either, although if I have enough money whilst I'm shopping I tend to opt for the free range. Being a student I am on a tight budget, but I dont mind paying a bit more for eggs, and meat I tend to get from the butchers as its local produce as are alot of the eggs in the local spar, plus the markets here tend to use local produce aswell thats been kept well, as alot of people tend to ask now.

I think the government is changing its attitude towards battery farming as the publics attitude is changing and there is a greater demand for free range. Hopefully the laws will continue to change and eventually outlaw battery farming and the government will give greater consideration to free range farmers. I think economic values are what has kept the laws from changing, but as people are buying their food with ethical values in mind now instead, the government will hopefully take that into consideration.