How you can see, where an egg is from
On average, the
Germans eat 18 billion eggs a year. More than 80 per cent are from hens from
chicken-batteries. Animal protectors have demanded a long time for finish this
cruelty to animals, to forbid the chicken-batteries and to mark the eggs, so
that you can see where they come from. Since the beginning of the year 2004,
eggs must be marked. Every egg must have a code. The code looks like this: On
the first place there's a number-1, 2 or 3. '3' stands for caged
chickens, for an egg from a chicken-battery. The '2' means that the
hen lives with thousand other hens in a stable, but they aren't allowed to go
out. If chickens can go outside into nature, there's an
'1' on the egg. When you have a '0'on your egg, you have a
really good egg, because the hen got only environment-friendly produced feed.
After the first number there are two letters for the country from which the egg
comes. For example 'DE' for
